History audiobooks

To Be a Friend Is Fatal

By: Kirk W. Johnson

Narrated by: Kirk W. Johnson

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq.



Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working... Read more

The Devil That Never Dies

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking -- and terrifying -- examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.

Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is... Read more

Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

By: Fred Burton & Samuel M. Katz

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya.

On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours... Read more

Salinger

By: David Shields & Shane Salerno

Narrated by: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff &...

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” (Entertainment Weekly).

This “revealing” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography,... Read more

Hanns and Rudolf

By: Thomas Harding

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justiceMay 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant... Read more

Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers.Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal emphasizes economic trends and the role of the government in regard to the economy from the beginning of the twentieth... Read more

The United States in World War II

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Last Day Of JFK

By: BBC

Narrated by: Alistair Cooke

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Two BBC Radio programmes exploring President John F. Kennedy's shocking assassination on 22 November 1963. In Something Is Terribly Wrong, first broadcast in 2003, Alan Thompson charts the confusion and disbelief after the assassination. He returns to key sites in Dallas, and talks to eyewitnesses including Nellie Connally (ex-First Lady of... Read more

The United States in the Cold War

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The United States Enters the World Stage

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Middle Road

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Last Battle

By: Stephen Harding

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle... Read more

The World Made New

By: Marc Aronson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine your shock at waking up one morning to a fleet of enormous, otherworldly craft looming over you. And when bizarre aliens begin to emerge-speaking strange gibberish-your heart races even faster. Similar fears may have gripped New World inhabitants when diverse civilizations-separated by a vast ocean-first met. American natives once knew... Read more

Silent Witnesses

By: Nigel McCrery

Narrated by: William Gaminara

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and... Read more

The Cancer Chronicles

By: George Johnson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where... Read more

The Esperanza Fire

By: John Maclean

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed... Read more

Armor and Blood

By: Dennis E. Showalter

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians. Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Dennis E. Showalter at last corrects that error. This battle was the critical turning point on World War II's Eastern... Read more

I Kiss Your Hands Many Times

By: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

Narrated by: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart
 
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested... Read more

The Great Dissent

By: Thomas Healy

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies. Indeed, free speech as we know it comes less from the First Amendment than from a most... Read more

A Short History of the Twentieth Century

By: John Lukacs

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century—its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and... Read more

Rising Tide

By: Randy Roberts & Ed Krzemienski

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.

During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in... Read more

The Book of Immortality

By: Adam Leith Gollner

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised an atheist, Adam Leith Gollner was struck by mankind's tireless efforts to cheat aging and death. In a narrative that pivots between profundity and hilarity, he brings us into the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality. From a Jesuit priest on his deathbed to anti-aging researchers at Harvard, Gollner—sorting... Read more

Sex On Soaps: Afternoon Love & Lust On Television Daytime Dramas

By: Matthew W. Grant

Narrated by: Jeannie Lin

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex On Soaps looks at love and lust on television daytime dramas. It's a must read for any soap fan, student of the genre, or anyone interested in the presentation of sexual content on television.SECTION 1 – SEX ON SOAPSEnjoying the dual role of soap fan and soap researcher, Matthew W. Grant earned his degree in Mass Communications after... Read more

Titan

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 35 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award–winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on... Read more