History audiobooks

50 Philosophy Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING SEEING - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books will be the sixth in the bestselling 50s series, and a lively entry point into the study.
Butler-Bowdon explores the works of 50 of the most significant philosophers; including those that show us How to think (Descartes, Foucault... Read more

Pain, Parties, Work

By: Elizabeth Winder

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"I dreamed of New York, I am going there."On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon... Read more

The Guerrilla Factory

By: Tony Schwalm

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Navy has the SEALs, and the Army has the Green Berets. They are masters of asymmetrical warfare, trained to immerse themselves in hostile territory, sleeping near their enemies and building relationships with people who may want to kill them. Retired lieutenant colonel Tony Schwalm knows this group well, because he is one of them and he... Read more

A Greedy Man in a Hungry World

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture. The doctrine of local food is dead. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice for the affluent middle classes. And ‘organic’ has become little more than a marketing label that is way past its sell by date. That may be a little... Read more

Women at the Ready

By: Robert Malcolmson & Patricia Malcolmson

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had enrolled.

These brave and dutiful women played a vital role in Britain's victory. The positive impact... Read more

Devil in the Grove

By: Gilbert King

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... Read more

The Unwinding

By: George Packer

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK

Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political Book
A New Republic Best Book

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation ... Read more

Intellectuals and Race

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense—one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their... Read more

Into the Abyss

By: Carol Shaben

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).

On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the... Read more

Over the Top

By: Arthur Guy Empey

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was making its way from New York to Liverpool when it was sunk by a German U-boat, shocking the world with the massive death toll. Infuriated by the tragedy, Arthur Guy Empey, an American citizen, traveled to England to enlist in the Royal Fusiliers, as the United States had not yet entered the war.... Read more

The Last of the Doughboys

By: Richard Rubin

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2003, eighty-five years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interviewed them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their war led... Read more

Applesauce Season

By: Eden Ross Lipson

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A taste of fall: Celebrated editor Eden Lipson and Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein celebrate a fall family ritual in Applesauce Season, a picture book rich with the colors and flavors of the season.When the first apples of the season--Ida Red and Paula Red, Twenty Ounce, McIntosh, and Ginger Gold--show up in the city markets, it's time... Read more

To the Gates of Richmond

By: Stephen W. Sears

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862. General George McClellan planned to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan's plan fell through at the gates of Richmond. Now, in... Read more

The Outsider

By: Jimmy Connors

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He... Read more

The Guns at Last Light

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 32 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The eagerly awaited final volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson's New York Times bestselling Liberation Trilogy.

It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson... Read more

The Philadelphia Chromosome

By: Jessica Wapner

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity... Read more

Gettysburg

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history—the most intimate and richly readable account we have had—of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and... Read more

Southern League

By: Larry Colton

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter... Read more

Brilliant Blunders

By: Mario Livio

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his... Read more

Here Is Where

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Andrew Carroll

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s fifty states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous... Read more

The War Below

By: James Scott

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying its economyThe War Below is a dramatic account of extraordinary heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance—and the vital role American submarines played in winning the Pacific War. Focusing on the unique stories of the submarines... Read more

The Feud

By: Dean King

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story of this legendarily fierce-and far-reaching-clash in the... Read more

Robert Oppenheimer

By: Ray Monk

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 35 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his... Read more

Mickey and Willie

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Allen Barra is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine and a widely acclaimed sportswriter. In Mickey and Willie, Barra reveals the surprising commonalities of two of the most heralded baseball players of the 20th century. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays had vastly different backgrounds. But when it came to baseball, they possessed... Read more