History audiobooks

Defiant

By: Alvin Townley

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them homeDuring the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist... Read more

The Upside of Down

By: Charles Kenny

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?



In The Upside of... Read more

America's Pastor

By: Grant Wacker

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham’s resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through God’s grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist hailed by the media as “America’s pastor”? Why did... Read more

ARIK

By: David Landau

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most dramatic and imposing Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years.

The life of Ariel Sharon spans much of modern Israel’s history. A commander in the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948, Sharon participated in... Read more

A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

By: Scott Andrew Selby

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror.

This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich.

For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the... Read more

And There Was Light - Abridged

By: Jacques Lusseyran

Narrated by: Andre Gregory

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy,... Read more

Train

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again.

From the frigid Trans-Siberian Railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic maglev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring... Read more

The Venetians

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world.



After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden... Read more

Call Me Burroughs

By: Barry Miles

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 29 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and... Read more

Dance of the Reptiles

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system.

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling... Read more

The Pope and Mussolini

By: David I. Kertzer

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives,... Read more

A Severe Mercy

By: Sheldon Vanauken

Narrated by: Peter Chanice

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death. Read more

1434

By: Gavin Menzies

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China—then the world's most technologically advanced... Read more

1421

By: Gavin Menzies

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic... Read more

The Port Chicago 50

By: Steve Sheinkin

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.

On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile... Read more

Will You Love Me?

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: Denica Fairman

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The 11th memoir and latest title from the internationally best-selling author and foster career Cathy Glass. This audiobook tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy.Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy's mother couldn't cope, but it wasn't... Read more

A Curious Madness

By: Eric Jaffe

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant... Read more

The Loudest Voice in the Room

By: Gabriel Sherman

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailes—the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American... Read more

Monsters

By: Rich Cohen

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship seasonFor Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city.It was... Read more

The Worlds the Shawnees Made

By: Stephen Warren

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren... Read more

The Empire of Necessity

By: Greg Grandin

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America' s struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying... Read more

Duty

By: Robert M. Gates

Narrated by: George Newbern & Robert M Gates

Length: 25 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.

Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to... Read more

America at War

By: Terence T. Finn

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

War—organized violence against an enemy of the state—seems part and parcel of the American journey. Indeed, the United States was established by means of violence as ordinary citizens from New Hampshire to Georgia answered George Washington's call to arms.



Since then, war has become a staple of American history. Counting the War for Independence,... Read more