History audiobooks

The Paradox of Jamestown

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 1 hour 43 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

Josephus Daniels

By: Lee Craig

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry... Read more

Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War

By: Thomas B. Allen & Roger Macbride Allen

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the sixteenth president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincoln as our nation's first hands-on commander-in-chief, whose appreciation for the... Read more

We Take You Now to Grover’s Mill - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman, writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson, and the people of Grover's Mill, NJ, who lived... Read more

Strange Rebels

By: Christian Caryl

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That one year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the... Read more

Bunker Hill

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)

In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to... Read more

Mythology

By: Edith Hamilton

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more

Hamilton at War

By: Robert Child

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As the story opens, young Alexander Hamilton marches with the Continentals at Fort Lee, New Jersey. He is frustrated by being relegated to the end of the line and missing out on the action. He desperately wants to make a name for himself. His fortunes soon change at the Raritan River when the vanguard of British infantry catches up to... Read more

Weltmacht Rom - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1.000 Jahre herrschten die Römer und ihr Einfluss ist auch bei uns bis heute noch gegenwärtig. Römische Philosophie, römisches Recht, römische Baukunst überlebten das Mittelalter und prägten die Zivilisation Mitteleuropas. Die Gründung; die Kämpfe mit den Etruskern, die Etablierung der Republik, die Kriege gegen Karthago, "Hannibal ante... Read more

Dickens: History in an Hour

By: Kaye Jones

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused and inspired readers in all languages since their original publication in the nineteenth century, and have been... Read more

The Gunpowder Plot: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jim Barclay

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’. The gunpowder plot is a famed tale of treachery that continues to fascinate and capture the imagination four hundred years on.The Gunpowder Plot in an Hour reveals the elaborate background to the infamous plot to blow up the... Read more

George Washington: History in an Hour

By: David B. McCoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle... Read more

The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour

By: Kaye Jones

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Nicknamed ‘The Anarchy' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the succession crisis that followed the death of King Henry I in 1135 resulted in England's first civil war. ‘The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour’ neatly covers all the major facts... Read more

Titanic: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact. TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN HOUR is an... Read more

The Siege of Leningrad: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the key city of Leningrad on 22 September 1941, he could not have foreseen the grim... Read more

The Red Line

By: John Nichol

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command’s 1944 Nuremberg Raid – the RAF’s bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew... Read more

End of The Good Life

By: Riva Froymovich

Narrated by: Simone Lewis

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y. This is her generation.Indeed, Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession. For those in the U.S. born after 1976, the American dream is a is becoming a nightmare. Swamped in student loan debt... Read more

Dirty Wars

By: Jeremy Scahill

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 24 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book of new reportage, sure to stir a global debate, journalist Jeremy Scahill—author of the acclaimed international bestseller Blackwater—takes us into the heart of the War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time.From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen,... Read more

Assignment to Hell

By: Timothy M. Gay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES


In February 1943, a group of journalists-including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney-clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A... Read more

Frozen in Time

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestseller!Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the... Read more

Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

By: Erica Grieder

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude, and yet, according to journalist, and Texan, Erica Grieder, the United... Read more

The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle: American Sniper, Navy SEAL

By: Michael J. Mooney

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller: The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper.

A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero. His renowned courage and skill in military service earned him two nicknames -- The Devil among insurgents and The Legend among his Navy SEAL brethren -- but his impact... Read more

Cooked

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. 

Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur in cooking. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker... Read more

Kennesaw Mountain

By: Earl J. Hess

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy... Read more