Politics & Economy audiobooks

Gunboat Command

By: Antony Hitchens

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or ‘Hitch’ as he was universally known).
After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin), and RN training, the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences.... Read more

Britain's Last Tommies

By: Richard van Emden

Narrated by: Bruce Cullen

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over, the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans,... Read more

If You’re Reading This...

By: Siân Price

Narrated by: Chrissy Yates

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant and profoundly moving collection of ‘farewell letters’ written by servicemen and women to their loved ones, Siân Price offers a remarkable insight into the hearts and minds of some of the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the past three hundred years.
Each letter provides an enduring snapshot of an impossible moment in time – when... Read more

Death March Escape

By: Jack J. Hersch

Narrated by: Chris Ingam

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen’s nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80lbs, nothing but skin and... Read more

Sniper on the Eastern Front

By: Albrecht Wacker

Narrated by: Nigel Gair

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight’s Cross.
An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented... Read more

Chinook Crew 'Chick': Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember

By: Liz McConaghy

Narrated by: Liz McConaghy

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz McConaghy spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF’s Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only woman on the Chinook wing for four years. In her astounding career, Liz McConaghy completed two deployments to Iraq followed by ten deployments to Helmand province in... Read more

Razor 03

By: Alan C. Mack

Narrated by: Alan C. Mack

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of a robust and deadly special operations force -- Task Force Dagger. Alan C. Mack, Callsign Razor 03, led a team of MH-47E helicopters and armed MH-60s. Their two-fold mission – Personnel Recovery (PR) and Unconventional Warfare (UW) involved flying in terrain and weather previously not... Read more

From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog

By: Steven K Ladd

Narrated by: Jeff Bolton

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about them, past and present. Understandably, most of these revolve around the skill, cunning and... Read more

Nuremberg's Voice of Doom

By: Wolfe Frank

Narrated by: Neil Hanson

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg – ‘the greatest trial in history’ – seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily... Read more

Fighters in the Blood

By: Air Marshal 'Black' Robertson CBE, BA, FRAeS, FRSA

Narrated by: Air Marshal 'Black' Robertson CBE, BA, FRAeS, FRSA

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As this fascinating memoir unfolds, moving backwards and forwards through time, two parallel stories emerge: one of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career comes to a premature end when he’s shot down and loses an eye, the other of his progeny, a second generation fighter pilot who eventually reaches the rank of air marshal.
The... Read more

In the Mind of Stalin

By: James Greensmith

Narrated by: John Applemore

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK’s wartime leader, described Russia as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. The same can certainly be said of Stalin. How can this paradox of a man, who on the one hand had once exhibited great tenderness and kindness to his daughter Svetlana, and... Read more

Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes

By: Paul Ballard-Whyte

Narrated by: Paul Ballard-Whyte

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Adolf Hitler’s Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command. Yet by July 1940, under his personal leadership the Third Reich’s armed forces had defeated Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and France. The invasion of Great Britain was a distinct reality following Dunkirk. Hungary, Bulgaria and... Read more

Carve Her Name With Pride

By: R. J. Minney

Narrated by: Poppy Manley

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY... Read more

My Boy Jack?

By: Tonie Holt & Valmai Holt

Narrated by: Bruce Cullen

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Published now for the first time in paperback, My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook... Read more

Reagan-Carter Debate

By: Ronald Reagan & Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Ruth Hinderfeld, Howard K. Smith, Marvin Stone,...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The only debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was held in Cleveland, Ohio on October 28, 1980, just days before the election on November 4, 1980. The debate, broadcast live on radio and television, was one of the most-watched presidential debates.Questions by four journalists focused on the following topics: U.S. armed forces, the... Read more

Democratic Citizenship

By: Gayatri kumari

Narrated by: Gayatri kumari

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Democratic Citizenship: A Continuous Approach to Proportionality in Political ParticipationIntroductionDemocratic citizenship is a fundamental concept that underpins the functioning of democratic societies. It encompasses the rights, responsibilities, and active participation of individuals in political and civic life. One of the critical... Read more

Save the Last Bullet

By: Heidi Langbein-Allen & Wilhelm Langbein

Narrated by: Paul Cheall

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler’s enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Willi, now aged fourteen, and his schoolmates were ordered to stave off... Read more

Social Security 101, 2nd Edition

By: Michele Cagan & Alfred Mill

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the ins and outs of the social security system in this accessible, easy-to-navigate guide with refreshed, updated information in Social Security 101, 2nd Edition.

Too often, writing about social security turns the noteworthy details of the benefits into boring details about regulations or biased political arguments that would put even a... Read more

The Lost and the Found

By: Kevin Fagan

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic.
... Read more

State of the Union 1982

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1982 State of the Union address on January 26, 1982, Reagan invokes his self-deprecating humor and calls for “a new spirit of partnership between this Congress and this administration”. Reagan cites the “stagflation” of the 1970s: double digit inflation, interest rates over 21%, and over 8 million unemployed. Reagan notes economic... Read more

CompTIA CASP+ Exam Guide

By: Elias Nightshade

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

⭐⭐ Questions & Answers Included ⭐⭐Are you aiming to elevate your professional journey, enhance your knowledge, and guarantee success with the renowned CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner certification?In search of a comprehensive resource that offers everything you need to excel in the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner exam?Look no... Read more

KNOW ABOUT "MARTIN LUTHER"

By: Saurabh Singh Chauhan

Narrated by: Saurabh Singh Chauhan

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is small copy of Introduction of the book: Welcome to the remarkable journey through the life and legacy of one of history's most influential figures, Martin Luther—the Father of Protestantism. In the pages that follow, we will embark on a voyage into the world of a man whose actions and ideas reshaped the course of Christianity and the... Read more

Reagan-Mondale Debate 2

By: Ronald Reagan & Walter Mondale

Narrated by: Dorothy Ridings, Edwin Newman, Georgie Anne Gey...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The second of two debates between President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale was held in Kansas City, Missouri on October 21, 1984. Edwin Newman was the debate moderator. Georgie Anne Geyer, Marvin Kalb, Morton Kondracke, and Henry Trewhitt were the four panelists who asked questions.This second debate was on defense and... Read more

Tyrants

By: Nigel Cawthorne

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have committed many acts of cruelty and had an incalculable number of men killed, never knowing whether what I did was right. But I am indifferent to what people think of me."- Genghis Khan
A spine-chilling chronicle of dictators and their crimes against humanity, Tyrants introduces the most bloodthirsty madmen - and women - ever to wield... Read more