History audiobooks

Who's on Worst?

By: Filip Bondy

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun

Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle vs. Mays? Since baseball is a game of failure, it's... Read more

American Story

By: Bob Dotson

Narrated by: Bob Dotson

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The host of the NBC Today Show's popular segment shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.For the six million people who watch the Emmy Award–winning "American Story with Bob Dotson" on NBC's Today Show, Bob Dotson's reports celebrate the inspirational stories of everyday Americans. Dotson has been... Read more

Blackett's War

By: Stephen Budiansky

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is... Read more

Black Hearts

By: Jim Frederick

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country's most dangerous location... Read more

Underdogs

By: Aaron B. O'Connell

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of... Read more

In Defiance of Hitler

By: Carla Killough McClafferty

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately two hundred artists and intellectuals - all enemies of the new Nazi regime. As a volunteer for the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry's mission was to help these refugees flee to safety, then... Read more

Greek Legacy

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Best 300 Professors by the Princeton Review, Timothy B. Shutt has been repeatedly honored for his exceptional skills as a lecturer. In Greek Legacy, Professor Shutt explores the qualities that set the ancient Greeks apart from other ancient civilizations. The Greeks, more than any other culture, contributed to the formation of... Read more

West with the Night

By: Beryl Markham

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic true story of a remarkable woman growing up in Africa in the 1920s: the excitement of big game hunting and horse training, and the first solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west. It’s named one of the ten greatest adventure books of all time, as selected by a panel assembled by National Geographic Adventure. Read more

Strange Sights And Sporting Scenes

By: John Timbs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The much-loved chronicler and observer of all that is unusual, John Timbs describes a selection of the oddest sights and anecdotes of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent story of one thousand years of English history is told through the lives and deeds of Kings and Queens, from the Normans to the Windsors. Understand how the power of the crown has changed as a result of both the character and ability of each monarch and evolving historical circumstances. Eight specialist contributors depict the... Read more

The Lessons of History

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact... Read more

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: John Little

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars. From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets," here is a concise collection of the world's most significant knowledge. For... Read more

Roosevelt and Churchill

By: David Stafford

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An intriguing look behind the congenial fa├ºade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, this work reveals how each leader jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Stafford's masterly study shows that at the heart of their complicated relationship—which was always dynamic—was an... Read more

Heroes of History

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

At Will Durant's death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version... Read more

Henry and the Cannons

By: Don Brown

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat of remarkable ingenuity and determination and one of the most... Read more

Toms River

By: Dan Fagin

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award • “A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times

The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable... Read more

The Pope's Last Crusade

By: Peter Eisner

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope’s Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI’s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich—a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.A shocking tale of intrigue and... Read more

Season on the Brink

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Decades after it spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written—an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach Bob Knight.

Granted unprecedented access to legendary coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers... Read more

Better than Homemade

By: Carolyn Wyman

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Americans pride themselves in their knack for innovation, and nowhere has America's can-do attitude been more apparent than at the supermarket. Need a cheese that is virtually indestructible? Want to find a way to stretch a pound of hamburger into a hearty main course for a family of five? Hard pressed for time to throw together a home-cooked... Read more

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Louis Gossett

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate... Read more

A Higher Call

By: Adam Makos

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a major motion pictureFour days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his... Read more

World War II

By: Sir Tony Robinson

Narrated by: Sir Tony Robinson

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Best Books with Facts in the 2013 Blue Peter awards, voted for by children.

In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders World War II, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War II! It's history,... Read more

The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov

By: Andrea Pitzer

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov's life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic authors.Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son... Read more

Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch

By: Ben Thompson

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch!This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits of history's greatest badasses. Not only that,... Read more