History audiobooks

The Face of Battle

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it—his fears, his wounds and their... Read more

The Hundred Years War

By: David Green

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them... Read more

How to Think Like Socrates

By: Donald J. Robertson

Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?

Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and Godfather to the Stoics. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are... Read more

Steel City Mafia

By: Paul N. Hodos

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don . . . The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the... Read more

Martin Luther

By: Simonetta Carr

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Illumination Book Award winner. Five hundred years ago, a monk named Martin Luther wrote ninety-five questions, hoping to start a discussion about sin and repentance at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. In a few months those questions had stirred the nation; a few years later, the continent. Today we know that those questions changed... Read more

The Greatest Fury

By: William C Davis

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Davis’s accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling.”—The Wall Street Journal

From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic.

It was a battle that... Read more

Coming Back Alive

By: Spike Walker

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.



One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk... Read more

Last Rites

By: Todd Harra

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions
Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When—and why—did we start viewing the deceased?

Ceremonies for honoring the departed are crucial parts of our lives, but few people know where our traditional practices... Read more

The book of Thoth

By: Aleister Crowley

Narrated by: Aryell Grist

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians is the title of The Equinox, volume III, number five, by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley. The publication date is recorded as the vernal equinox of 1944 (an Ixviii Sol in 0° 0' 0" Aries, March 21, 1944, e. v. 5:29 p.m.) and was originally published in an edition limited... Read more

Ten Masterpieces of Music

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of ten great works of classical music?works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters?Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert,... Read more

The Darkest Summer

By: Bill Sloan

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months—a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on... Read more

Into the Black

By: Rowland White

Narrated by: Eric Meyers

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (Clive Cussler, #1 bestselling author), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia.

Using interviews,... Read more

Broadcast Hysteria

By: A. Brad Schwartz

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 30, 1938, families across the country were gathered around their radios when their regular programming was interrupted by an announcer delivering news of a meteor strike in New Jersey. With increasing intensity, the announcer read bulletins describing terrifying war  machines moving toward New York City. As the invading force... Read more

A Magnificent Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Emma

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a powerful and persuasive pamphlet that played a pivotal role in advocating for American independence from British rule. Written in 1776, Paine’s clear and compelling arguments challenged the authority of the British monarchy and promoted the idea of self-governance. His accessible language and logical reasoning... Read more

The Bone Picker

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the... Read more

And Goliath

By: David Brown

Narrated by: Basil Sands

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Former US Navy SEAL David Brown was the unlikeliest of candidates for the world's most grueling military selection process. Standing just 5' 3" and weighing 110 pounds, he was unlike any of the others around him who aspired to be SEALs. But through dogged determination and an iron will, he overcame every obstacle that life put in front of him to... Read more

A Brief History of Albert Einstein

By: Scott Matthews

Narrated by: Daniel Jones

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you captivated by the mysteries of the universe and the minds that unravel them? Eager to understand how a single equation transformed our understanding of everything from atoms to galaxies? Wondering how the thoughts of one visionary could redefine the boundaries of space, time, and reality itself?
Dive into the extraordinary life and legacy... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

HOOF BEATS

By: William T. Taylor

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history.



From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of... Read more

The Mary We Forgot

By: Jennifer Powell McNutt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Magdalene's life was transformed when she was healed by Christ and joined his ministry from Galilee to Jerusalem. The Gospels teach that she was also a witness at the cross and the first one sent by Christ to preach his resurrection. Yet her story is often confused, scandalized, and undervalued by the church.



In The Mary We Forgot,... Read more

Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Hegel

Narrated by: Jonathan Booth

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Elements of The Philosophy of Right, a key work in the output of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), appeared in 1820 - and was arguably his last major publication. His intention was to state his views on the philosophy of law, political and social theory and ethics. Appearing as it did in a crucial time for the Prussian state - still affected by... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde

By: Karen Blumenthal

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious—and celebrated—outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.Bonnie and Clyde—we’ve been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop-culture references, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance... Read more

Written in Stone

By: Christopher Stevens

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. First spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago, this mother tongue spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and... Read more