History audiobooks

Oathbreakers

By: Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

""This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction.” — Booklist""An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers WeeklyThe authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil... Read more

Anubis

By: Charlie Larson

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Anubis is among the most recognizable gods of ancient Egypt. Is Anubis a relic of the past, or is he actively venerated now? Author Charlie Larson, a longtime priest and devotee of Anubis, answers these questions and more. Portrayed as either a black jackal or as a jackal-headed man, Anubis is Egypt's original Lord of the Dead. Anubis's domain... Read more

The Envoy

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians... Read more

Familiar Violence

By: Heather Montgomery

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history, looking at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the... Read more

Las 100 Frases De Los Mejores Psicologos

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Durante siglos, psicólogos, filósofos y expertos han dejado frases memorables que reflejan sus teorías y descubrimientos. Estas frases no solo nos inspiran, sino que también nos permiten reflexionar sobre nuestras vidas, decisiones y la naturaleza humana.A lo largo de la historia, personajes como Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, William James, Viktor... Read more

Belle Starr—The Bandit Queen

By: William Yancey Shackleford

Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living and hanging out with members of the James and Younger gangs.Belle was a crack shot who rode side saddle while... Read more

A Life for Liberty

By: Randy E. Barnett

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From prosecuting murderers in Chicago, to arguing before the Supreme Court, to authoring more than a dozen books, Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett has played an integral role in the rise of originalism—the movement to identify, restore, and defend the original meaning of the Constitution. Thanks in part to his efforts, by 2018 a... Read more

Calm in the Chaos

By: Brian Dickinson

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From an elite Navy rescue swimmer comes this insider perspective on what it takes to survive some of the most dangerous situations imaginable—and how the lessons learned can help overcome other momentous challenges.



Brian Dickinson, famously known for having climbed down Mt. Everest while completely snow blind, is often asked how he managed the... Read more

Trust Me, You Will Survive

By: Dominik Stoltman & Tom Stoltman

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A record of life in Poland before, during and after World War II. The memoir not only conveys personal experiences, but also explores momentous happenings of the time throughout Europe. Read more

Why England Slept

By: John F. Kennedy

Narrated by: AJ Crozby

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“England made many mistakes; she is paying heavily for them now. In studying the reasons why England slept, let us try to profit by them and save ourselves her anguish.” – John F. Kennedy

In 1938, British statesman and soon-to-be Prime Minister Winston Churchill published his book Arms and the Covenant. It was published three months later in the... Read more

While England Slept

By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill

Narrated by: Peter Walters

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavor by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigor, can even at this hour save civilization." – Winston S. Churchill

In 1938, British statesman The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill,... Read more

Destiny Challenged: Churchill and JFK's Fight Over England and Nazi Germany

By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill & John...

Narrated by: Peter Walters & AJ Crozby

Length: 24 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Heroic World Leaders Diverge over the Fate of Civilization in this Deluxe
World War II History Enrichment Bundle Edition, Destiny Challenged.
“We ought to rejoice at the responsibilities with which destiny has honored us, and be proud that we are guardians of our country in an age when her life is at stake.” – Winston S. Churchill

In 1938,... Read more

A Century of Tomorrows

By: Glenn Adamson

Narrated by: Glenn Adamson

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Century of Tomorrows written and read by Glenn Adamson

An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.

For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

The Order

By: Kevin Flynn

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture!

Originally published as The Silent Brotherhood, uncover the chilling depths of America’s racist underground with this investigative true crime masterpiece exposing the inner workings of white supremacist militias and domestic terror groups.

Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider’s account of... Read more

Much Ado About Numbers

By: Rob Eastaway

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare's era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of "zero" to Galileo's redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare's plays—and his world—touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation, music, sports, and more.



● How reliable was a pocket sundial?



● Was... Read more

Fortress Britain 1940

By: Andrew Chatterton

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alone, unprepared, and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain's position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the reality is very different. On land, sea, and in the air, Britain was prepared. It had the most powerful navy in the world; the RAF was relatively... Read more

A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi & Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region.Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various... Read more

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not... Read more

The Roads to Rome

By: Catherine Fletcher

Narrated by: Catherine Fletcher

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"All roads lead to Rome" is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire—and these ancient roads continue to grip our imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's greatness.



Over the two thousand years since they were built, these roads have been walked by crusaders and... Read more

Ocean

By: John Haywood

Narrated by: Ben Eagle

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New... Read more

The Last Kilo

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more

Heretic

By: Catherine Nixey

Narrated by: Lalla Ward

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

""A brilliant book—sometimes frightening, occasionally funny, frequently unsettling and always a thrill to read. It probes painfully into the pathology of belief."" — The Times From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of... Read more

When We Sold God's Eye

By: Alex Cuadros

Narrated by: Alex Cuadros

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston).

Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their... Read more