History audiobooks

Thraldom

By: Stefan Brink

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us,... Read more

1965: Courage Unleashed

By: Ian Cardozo

Narrated by: Dev J Haldar

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that the 1965 Indo–Pak War was initiated by Field Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan in an effort to wrest Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) from India? His failure to achieve his aim led eventually to his overthrow. This account highlights the human dimension of war through the dramatic personal experiences of army and air force officers... Read more

The Enlightenment

By: J. C. D. Clark

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept.



The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c.... Read more

Caesar Versus Pompey

By: Stephen Dando-Collins

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Who was Rome's greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey?



Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers, and emperors.



Little has been... Read more

Chips and Splinters

By: E. S. Sorenson

Narrated by: Gregory Dwyer

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful selection of entertaining poems, short essays, and written conversations involving the people of 20th century rural Australia and some of their working animals.This collection includes “When Dad Drives Home From Town,” “When the Sailor Rode the Brumby,” “The Old Barn School,” and many more. Read more

Saxophone Colossus

By: Aidan Levy

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called "the only jazz recluse" has gone largely untold—until now.



Based on more than 200... Read more

The Prize

By: Daniel Yergin

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

Length: 46 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.

Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts... Read more

The Perfect Vehicle

By: Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Narrated by: Leanne Woodward

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."―The New Yorker
In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of... Read more

Swimming to Freedom

By: Kent Wong

Narrated by: Freddie Wong

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary memoir of Communist China, the Cultural Revolution, and a yearning to be freeWhen Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work, allowing the family to return to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they... Read more

Forged in Hell

By: Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

July 1943: The largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers. The Royal Navy warship carrying them—a former passenger ferry transformed for battle—bore the iconic winged dagger emblem carved on its prow, plus the motto 'Who... Read more

The Russian Revolution: The Catastrophe!

By: Alexander Kerensky

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

In 1914, the Great War was raging all around the globe. It was by far the largest and bloodiest conflagration the world had ever seen. The balance of vast imperial powers the world over was shifting in tectonic, unpredictable ways.During this maelstrom, in 1917, Russia underwent a revolution. Or rather, two.The abdication of Czar Nicholas II of... Read more

CHRONIQUE d'une SORCIÈRE

By: Noelle MONGE & Isolde

Narrated by: Noelle MONGE

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Depuis les premières femmes qui murmurèrent leurs secrets aux arbres jusqu'aux sorcières modernes qui se réapproprient leur histoire, "Chronique d'une Sorcière" est une chronique-réalité qui traverse les siècles, guidée par la voix d'Isolde, une sorcière des temps anciens. Plongez dans un récit où les croyances et la magie s'entremêlent, où les... Read more

The History of England Volume 5

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 23 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite considerable concerns throughout England, the transition of the House of Tudor to the House of Stewart, from Elizabeth to James I (reigned 1603-1625) proved untroubled, not least because the queen left the country in ‘flourishing circumstances'. The new monarch moved to London and, despite being James VI of Scotland, made it his home for... Read more

Belle Starr—The Bandit Queen

By: William Yancey Shackleford

Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living and hanging out with members of the James and Younger gangs.Belle was a crack shot who rode side saddle while... Read more

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

By: Linda Myrsiades

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges' bench notes, and defense notes for the... Read more

Familiar Violence

By: Heather Montgomery

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history, looking at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the... Read more

Anubis

By: Charlie Larson

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Anubis is among the most recognizable gods of ancient Egypt. Is Anubis a relic of the past, or is he actively venerated now? Author Charlie Larson, a longtime priest and devotee of Anubis, answers these questions and more. Portrayed as either a black jackal or as a jackal-headed man, Anubis is Egypt's original Lord of the Dead. Anubis's domain... Read more

Guns Up!

By: Johnnie Clark

Narrated by: John Fehskens

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature.

"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine ... Read more

Why the Bible Began

By: Jacob L. Wright

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable.



For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's... Read more

Ashkenazi Herbalism

By: Deatra Cohen & Adam Siegel

Narrated by: Adam Siegel

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive guide to the medicinal plant knowledge of Ashkenazi herbal healers--from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism rediscovers the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in Eastern... Read more

Escape from the Deep

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Their submarine was dead, one hundred and eighty feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Somehow they survived. They were tortured and beaten. Somehow they survived. Alex Kershaw has done it again as he brings to life World War II's greatest submarine survival adventure." --James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys

In the... Read more

The McCartney Legacy

By: Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life from 1974 to 1980.By 1974 the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already gone on... Read more

Conflicted

By: Isaac Blacksin

Narrated by: John Guccion

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by... Read more

Flying Through the Ranks

By: Air Marshal G.A. 'Black' Robertson

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick & Marian Hussey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The inspiration for this brilliant anthology is the "I Learnt About Flying from That" articles that first appeared in the RAF flight safety magazine Air Clues in the 1940s and continue to feature in the magazine to this day. Flying Through the Ranks gets a five-star start with an extraordinary tale from a marshal of the Royal Air Force and... Read more