History audiobooks

La bataille de Stalingrad

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Will Maes

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

La bataille de Stalingrad (août 1942- février 1943) est le véritable tournant de la seconde guerre mondiale. Cette bataille, perdue par les nazis, est l'un des moments les plus marquants de l'histoire militaire du XXe siècle. Les forces allemandes qui assaillaient la ville furent encerclées et contraintes à la capitulation. Par sa durée, par la... Read more

Le procès de Nuremberg

By: Frédéric Garnier

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

C'est à Nuremberg, ville des parades nazies sous le IIIème Reich, que furent jugés du 20 novembre 1945 au 30 septembre 1946 les principaux dirigeants de l'Allemagne nazie. Devant le tribunal composé de magistrats représentant les États-Unis, la Grande-Bretagne, l'URSS, et la France, comparaissaient 21 accusés. Hitler s'est suicidé, ainsi que... Read more

The Missile Next Door

By: Gretchen Heefner

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards—and what that story... Read more

La guerre du feu - Abridged

By: Rosny Aisné

Narrated by: William Cros

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La Guerre du feu est un roman écrit par J.-H. Rosny aîné et paru pour la première fois en France en 1911. Il remporta un gros succès et a suscité de nombreuses adaptations. L'auteur situe son roman au cœur de la Préhistoire, soit environ cent mille ans dans le passé. Depuis des générations, la vie de la tribu des Oulhamrs s'est organisée autour... Read more

The Gates of the Alamo

By: Stephen Harrigan

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 24 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings one of the pivotal battles in American history to life in this fiery, unforgettable novel. Meticulously researched and overflowing with fascinating characters, The Gates of the Alamo is an experience history buffs and fiction fans will equally enjoy. Edmund McGowan is a gifted naturalist whose life's... Read more

Like Dreamers

By: Yossi Klein Halevi

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 23 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.



Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit... Read more

Pinkerton's Great Detective

By: Beau Riffenburgh

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton' s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland' s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included... Read more

Abraham Lincoln's Path to Reelection in 1864

By: Fred J. Martin Jr.

Narrated by: Thomas Mailey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

PRAISE FOR
ABRAHAM LINCOLNS PATH TO REELECTION IN 1864
OUR GREATEST VICTORY Political polls consistently record a substantial lack of confidence in national political leaders of both major parties and a disturbing sentiment that the United States is on the wrong track in current policy developments.. These sentiments lead to unfortunate... Read more

Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison

By: Dolly Madison & Lucia Cutts

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolly Madison is one of the most intriguing women, indeed, one of the most intriguing people of either gender in American history. From the quiet rectitude of her Quaker upbringing, through the startlingly sudden romance of her marriage to James Madison, to her rise to a position of prominence and influence that created the role of the First... Read more

Grand Central

By: Sam Roberts

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A rich, illustrated - and entertaining -- history of the iconic Grand
Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in
time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.

In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and
immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable... Read more

Grand Central

By: Sam Roberts

Narrated by: Sam Roberts

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, illustrated - and entertaining -- history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.

In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable... Read more

Triumphs of Experience

By: George E. Vaillant

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling than before.Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted... Read more

The Mission, the Men, and Me

By: Pete Blaber

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As a commander of Delta Force—the most elite counterterrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat... Read more

Things That Matter

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Charles Krauthammer & George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
 
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his... Read more

Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan

By: Melissa Bowersock

Narrated by: Adrianne Price

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcia L. Gates was an Army nurse and prisoner of war during WWII. As an "Angel of Bataan," she spent three years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. This is her story, told through her letters and the newspaper clippings, photos and letters collected by her mother. The book was awarded a biography medal by the Military Writers... Read more

Heir to the Empire City

By: Edward P. Kohn

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president—a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive... Read more

Neutrino Hunters

By: Ray Jayawardhana

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them.For more than eighty years, brilliant and eccentric scientists around the world have been searching for the incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos. Trillions of these ghostly particles pass through our bodies every second, but... Read more

Watching War Films With My Dad

By: Al Murray

Narrated by: Al Murray

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began.

Have you ever watched a film with someone who, at the most dramatic scene, argues that the plane on screen hasn't been invented yet? Or that the tank rumbling towards the hero at the end of the film is the wrong tank altogether?... Read more

William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language... Read more

1914: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1914 the world changed. Europe’s great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought – fought with military bands,... Read more

The Korean War: History in an Hour

By: Andrew Mulholland

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the... Read more

The Holocaust: History in an Hour

By: Jemma J. Saunders

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals,... Read more

The Rolling Stones Discover America

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Michael Lydon

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A founding editor of Rolling Stone and acclaimed journalist gives a backstage pass to the most important band in rock’n’roll history during the height of their fame.

In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour... Read more

The Rolling Stones Discover America

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour across America that ended at Altamont. His long, intimate piece on the tour, THE ROLLING STONES DISCOVER AMERICA, captures the highs and lows of the grueling tour... Read more