History audiobooks

The De Palma Decade

By: Laurent Bouzereau

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s and early 80s with new interviews and fresh takes.
 
Among a crop of fresh filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and... Read more

Stonewall Jackson’s Most Famous Battles: The History of the Confederate General’s Legendary Victories

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson had been a virtual unknown upon his arrival at the front line of First Bull Run, but by the spring of 1862, thanks to his actions at that battle, “Stonewall” was already becoming known across the battlefields. Ultimately, it would be the Valley Campaign of 1862 that made him a legend. In the early... Read more

I've Been to the Mountaintop

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech ""I've Been to the Mountaintop,"" part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and delivered what would be his final speech. Voiced in support of the Memphis... Read more

No Road Leading Back

By: Chris Heath

Narrated by: Vas Eli

Length: 21 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more... Read more

En ondanks alles

By: David Grossman

Narrated by: Wilbert Gieske

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict door de ogen van David Grossman. 'De prijs die betalen' schetst in elf korte essays de (voor)geschiedenis van 7 oktober als een serie van desastreuze beslissingen van een nationalistische en alleen op machtsbehoud gefocuste regering, voor wie taal, cultuur en de vrijheid van het denken geen onbetwistbare... Read more

Rule Number Two

By: Heidi Squier Kraft

Narrated by: Heidi Squier Kraft

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to... Read more

Legendary Commanders Who Challenged Ancient Rome

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Ross Jenkins

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the history of war, only a select few men always make the list of greatest generals. Napoleon. Caesar. Alexander. They are always joined by Hannibal, who has the distinction of being the only man who nearly brought Rome to its knees before its decline almost 700 years later. Rome never suffered a more horrifying defeat in its history than at... Read more

Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter

By: Sir Keith Murdoch

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Library of Australia describes Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter in the following way:“The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes the... Read more

La guerra del General Escobar.

By: José Luis Olaizola

Narrated by: Jaime Novales López-Medel

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

El coronel de la Guardia Civil Antonio Escobar, hombre de profundas convicciones religiosas, consiguió con su decidida actuación el 19 de julio de 1936 que no prosperase la sublevación militar en Barcelona. Pese a ser hijo de un héroe de la guerra de Cuba, y tener una hija monja adoratriz, un hijo falangista Palma de Plata y dos hermanos también... Read more

The Greatest Civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before Alexandria was a city and even before Memphis and Babylon had attained greatness, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur stood foremost among ancient Near Eastern cities. Today, the greatness and cultural influence of Ur has been largely forgotten by most people, partially because its monuments have not stood the test of time the way... Read more

Manichaeism: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Persian Religion

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

During the first half of the 1st millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended its power and influence to Mesopotamia in the east, Arabia in the south, the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and as far east as India. This empire, known alternatively as the Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, was the last of three great dynasties in... Read more

Hidden in Plain View

By: Jacqueline L. Tobin & Raymond G. Dobard

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"There are five square knots on the quilt every two inches apart. They escaped on the fifth knot on the tenth pattern and went to Ontario, Canada. The monkey wrench turns the wagon wheel toward Canada on a bear's paw trail to the crossroads--"

And so begins the fascinating story that was passed down from generation to generation in the family of... Read more

Proverb Masters

By: Raymond Summerville

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been used throughout history to share and disseminate brief, powerful statements of truth and philosophical insight. Oftentimes, these sayings have... Read more

How the World Made the West

By: Josephine Quinn

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global.

“Superb, refreshing, and full of delights, this is world history at its best.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author... Read more

Hope by Terry Fox

By: Barbara Adhiya

Narrated by: Sarah Wilson & Evan Mackenzie

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring excerpts from Terry’s very own Marathon of Hope journal, Hope by Terry Fox shares the untold story of a well known hero — the goofy, resilient, and courageous 21-year-old who rallied a nation behind his mission. In 1976, when Terry Fox was just eighteen years old, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and his right leg was amputated... Read more

I Am Maroon

By: Russell Shoatz

Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell & Kanya D'Almeida

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.

Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to... Read more

The Stalin Affair

By: Giles Milton

Narrated by: Giles Milton

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.

In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union,... Read more

Benedict Arnold and Major John André: The Men Behind the Most Notorious Plot of the American Revolution

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 7, 1777, Benedict Arnold rode out against orders and led an American assault against British forces led by General John Burgoyne in one of the climactic battles and ultimate turning point of the war at Saratoga. Near the end of the most important American victory of the Revolution, Arnold’s leg was shattered by a volley that also hit... Read more

Cocaine and Rhinestones

By: Tyler Mahan Coe

Narrated by: Tyler Mahan Coe

Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking... Read more

The Salt Thief: Gandhi's Heroic March to Freedom

By: Neal Bascomb

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic story of Gandhi and India's long march to freedom by award-winning author Neal Bascomb.In 1930, the Indian people, long ruled by their British occupiers, were at a breaking point. No more could many stand the terrible demands of colonial rule. At this pivotal moment, Mohandas Gandhi, who had suffered firsthand for decades the... Read more

No Haven

By: Paul Bleakley

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut's history of organized crime is often overlooked. This is the untold story of New Haven's illegal past.



One of America's most historic and enduring cities, New Haven has wrangled with a perpetual identity struggle, torn between worlds that occasionally converged in chaos and... Read more

Some Nightmares Are Real

By: Kelly Kazek

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark secrets lurk beneath the sleepy surface of Alabama. Ghosts and grisly creatures haunt the towns and forests. In the great Southern ghost-story tradition, famed Alabama storyteller Kelly Kazek weaves a gothic tapestry of ten stories drawn from real people and legendary creatures, cursed places, and harrowing events.



Each story or legend takes... Read more

Vertigo

By: Harald Jähner

Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil

Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic,... Read more

How Economics Explains the World

By: Andrew Leigh

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard UniversityA sweeping, engrossing history of how economic forces have shaped the world—all in under 200 pagesIn How... Read more