History audiobooks

Going Solo

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times


Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures!

Going Solo is the action-packed tale of Roald Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Learn all... Read more

Year Zero

By: Ian Buruma

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come across Asia and all of continental Europe. It was the greatest global power vacuum in history, and out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the... Read more

F**k

By: Rufus Lodge

Narrated by: Richard E Grant

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world’s favourite word. F, U, C and K – four letters that can cause outrage, scandal, embarrassment or instant relief if you hit your thumb with a hammer. In this wide-ranging and frequently hilarious history of the F-word, Rufus Lodge... Read more

Slimed!

By: Mathew Klickstein

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All of 2013!One of Parade Magazine's Best Books About Movies/TV of 2013!The behind the scenes story of the network that shaped a generationSlimed! is the first oral history to chronicle the surprisingly complex, wonderfully nostalgic, and impressively compelling story of Nickelodeon, the first kids’ network.... Read more

Killing Jesus

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history.

The basis for the 2015 television film available on streaming.

Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events... Read more

The Riddle of the Labyrinth

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.



When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a... Read more

Collision 2012

By: Dan Balz

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years ago, a bright young presidential candidate named Barack Obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change, and made history. Today, he finds himself in another bitter, divisive presidential race but without the buzzwords. Instead, an embattled president struggles with a dysfunctionally divided Congress, a controversial healthcare bill, a... Read more

The Message

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Richard Wolffe

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

They had 99 problems but Mitt Romney wasn't one.

At the start of an epic election, the team trying to reelect President Obama faced a mountain of challenges: a dismal economy, the faded hopes of the first campaign, and a struggle to raise enough cash to compete. No president had risen so fast, or fallen so far, in the modern era. And no... Read more

Command and Control

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons.

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed... Read more

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

By: Anya von Bremzen

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations  
 
     Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin,... Read more

The Spiritual World of the Hobbit

By: James Stuart Bell

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Find wisdom and inspiration in one of the greatest adventures ever told.Let this audio book be your guide as you discover hidden truths embedded in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure. As one of the best-selling books of the last 100 years, and now a blockbuster movie, the magical charm of The Hobbit has delighted millions. But there is a spiritual... Read more

As Luck Would Have It

By: Derek Jacobi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Star of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain’s most distinguished actors. ‘If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.’ The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek’s childhood: an only child,... Read more

Still Foolin' 'Em

By: Billy Crystal

Narrated by: Billy Crystal

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Nominated for a 2014 Grammy in the Spoken Word category!

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians, now that he's 65, and a look back at a remarkable career.

Billy Crystal is 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with... Read more

Lindbergh

By: A. Scott Berg

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 31 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his baby was kidnapped and found dead. The unbearable trial forced Lindbergh into exile in... Read more

The Firm

By: Duff McDonald

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Company, America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalistsFounded in 1926, McKinsey & Company has become one of the world's leading management consulting firms, helping to invent American business and... Read more

Forgotten Ally

By: Rana Mitter

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against JapanFor decades a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China two full years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great... Read more

The Idealist

By: Nina Munk

Narrated by: Susan Nezami

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award


A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
    
 "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the... Read more

Breach of Trust

By: Andrew Bacevich

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules

The United States has been "at war" in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers... Read more

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

By: Jack El-Hai

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox.The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot-water bottle, and the equivalent of $1... Read more

Wilson

By: A. Scott Berg

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 32 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.

One hundred years after his... Read more

Empty Mansions

By: Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a... Read more

American Coup

By: William M. Arkin

Narrated by: William M. Arkin

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning exploration of the subtle erosion of freedom in an age of concocted fear and de facto military authority.

When we think of a military coup, the first image that comes to mind is a general, standing at a podium with a flag behind him, declaring the deposing of elected leaders and the institution of martial law.

Think again. In... Read more

Wilson - Abridged

By: A. Scott Berg

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.

One hundred years after his... Read more

Savage Will

By: Timothy M. Gay

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Savage Will brings to life a remarkable story of perseverance, heroism, and survival: the true tale of the American medics and nurses who endured two months in Nazi-occupied Albania—and the fearless citizens and Allied intelligence officers who risked all to save them.

On a cold morning in war-ravaged Sicily in 1943, men and women of the 807th... Read more