History audiobooks

Forgotten War

By: Brian E. Walter

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless... Read more

¡Viva Mexico!

By: DK Travel

Narrated by: Gabriel Porras

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

There's so much to love about Mexico. Indigenous traditions stretching back millennia; colourful cuisine that's loved the world over; and vibrant festivals bursting with joyful energy. Mexico is a country worth celebrating - and that's exactly what ¡Viva Mexico! is all about.

Within its pages, you'll discover the rich diversity of this vast... Read more

Gaslight

By: Jonathan Mingle

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the "public interest"—because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called "bridge... Read more

Battleground

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East



The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated... Read more

True West

By: Betsy Gaines Quammen

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging... Read more

Peep Light

By: Lee Hendrix

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River. Hendrix, formerly a pilot... Read more

Paddleways of Mississippi

By: Ernest Herndon & Patrick Parker

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state's geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its arteries, its lifeblood, and the connective tissues that tie its stories and histories together and flood them with a sense of place and impel them... Read more

Populus

By: Guy de la Bédoyère

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata.



Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient Rome was stimulating, dynamic, and often downright... Read more

For the People, For the Country

By: John A. Ragosta

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union. For the People, For the Country tells the remarkable story of... Read more

The American Transportation Revolution

By: Aaron W. Marrs

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country.



Demonstrating the wide cultural reach of steam transit,... Read more

The Mysterious Losses of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion: The History of the Only American Nuclear Submarines Lost at Sea

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1963, one of the most advanced U.S. hunter-killer nuclear submarines and the 129 men onboard vanished while on a routine voyage. The USS Thresher was one of the country’s most advanced ships, but it had the misfortune of becoming the first American nuclear submarine to be lost at sea, prompting obvious questions over what had happened.... Read more

Our God Is Marching On \ Dios avanza con nosotros (Spanish edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Emil Matos

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermosa edición conmemorativa del discurso Our God Is Marching On del Dr. Martin Luther King, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. Al terminar la marcha de Selma a Montgomery el 25 de marzo de 1965, el Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. se plantó frente a una multitud y celebró el trabajo riguroso y el esfuerzo... Read more

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

By: Matthew Rowley

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This book explores how polarized interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism, sexism, and exploitation. Additionally, these Protestants... Read more

A Revolutionary Friendship

By: Francis D. Cogliano

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha Washington's worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson's awkward visit to pay his respects. Indeed, by the time George Washington died in 1799, the two founders were estranged. But that estrangement has obscured the fact that for most of their thirty-year acquaintance they enjoyed a productive... Read more

King Coal

By: Uptown Sinclair

Narrated by: Jason Smith

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"King Coal" is a novel by Upton Sinclair that critiques the labor conditions in the coal mining industry, drawing attention to the exploitation of workers and the harsh realities of their lives. Sinclair, known for his investigative and social advocacy writing, aimed to shed light on social injustices and encourage reform through this and other... Read more

The Battle of Culloden: The History and Legacy of the Jacobite Revolts’ Most Famous Battle

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Jacobites conjure up many images to 21st century Britons, including romantic heroism, the Outlander series, and Bonnie Prince Charlie as the doomed hero of the cause, but Jacobitism was a cause that had far reaching consequences across 18th century Europe. The Jacobites were not only supporters of the exiled Stuart monarchy, but also against... Read more

Do Something

By: Guy Trebay

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • An evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s.

“In his beautiful memoir, Do Something, Guy Trebay paints a picture of a... Read more

Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Lives and Careers of the Physicists Who Pioneered Atomic Energy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

The Manhattan Project would ultimately yield the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” bombs that released more than 100 Terajoules of energy at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but as it turned out, the Axis were not far behind with their own nuclear weapons program. When the Nazis’ quest for a nuclear weapon began in earnest in 1939, no one really had a handle on... Read more

CODE NAME: SPIKE

By: Jacek Waliszewski, Steven Bizic & Joseph S. Kosky

Narrated by: Jacek Waliszewski & General (Ret.) Charles T. C...

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

America's first intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was forged in the fires of WWII. OSS agents carried out daring and covert operations across the world, yet their critical contributions and brave work have remained shrouded in secrecy — until now.Discover the stunning true story of Steven Bizic and the men of SPIKE... Read more

Ancient Greece’s Most Influential Philosophers

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In virtually all fields of human endeavor, ancient Greece was so much at the forefront of dynamism and innovation that the products of its most brilliant minds remain not only influential but entirely relevant to this day. The great philosophers of Athens, men like Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, interrogated themselves with startling complexity... Read more

Shiloh: The History of the First Major Battle in the Western Theater during the Civil War

By: Jonathan Gianos-Steinberg

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

After Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in early 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, widely considered the Confederacy’s best general, concentrated his forces in northern Georgia and prepared for a major offensive that culminated with the biggest battle of the war to that point, the Battle of... Read more

The Disappearance of the Surcouf: The Mysterious Sinking of the Allies’ Largest Submarine during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Surcouf launched in 1929, it was a technological marvel. This wasn’t a conventional submarine at all, but a 3,300-ton, 300-foot-long submersible light cruiser. Armed not just with torpedoes but also a pair of eight-inch guns, the Surcouf had a range of over 10,000 miles and was equipped with a seaplane in a hanger and a prison capable... Read more

Mayer Amschel Rothschild: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Gründer einer Bankendynastie: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Love at old days

By: Muhammad Abdel Hamid

Narrated by: Pandarosh

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A social novel that reviews the various political currents and their social influence on the people of Egypt and carries major political symbols and projections. Read more