History audiobooks

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

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

Oathbreakers

By: Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

""This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction.” — Booklist""An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers WeeklyThe authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil... 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

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

The Envoy

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians... Read more

Despised and Rejected

By: Rose Allatini

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the pseudonym A.T. Fitzroy, prolific author Rose Allatini wrote her 1918 novel Despised and Rejected against the backdrop of the First World War.Set in England slightly before and during the War, this powerful novel is considered by many an important landmark in the literature of pacifism and also early gay and lesbian literature. Its... Read more

Calm in the Chaos

By: Brian Dickinson

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From an elite Navy rescue swimmer comes this insider perspective on what it takes to survive some of the most dangerous situations imaginable—and how the lessons learned can help overcome other momentous challenges.



Brian Dickinson, famously known for having climbed down Mt. Everest while completely snow blind, is often asked how he managed the... Read more

Trust Me, You Will Survive

By: Dominik Stoltman & Tom Stoltman

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A record of life in Poland before, during and after World War II. The memoir not only conveys personal experiences, but also explores momentous happenings of the time throughout Europe. Read more

Why England Slept

By: John F. Kennedy

Narrated by: AJ Crozby

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“England made many mistakes; she is paying heavily for them now. In studying the reasons why England slept, let us try to profit by them and save ourselves her anguish.” – John F. Kennedy

In 1938, British statesman and soon-to-be Prime Minister Winston Churchill published his book Arms and the Covenant. It was published three months later in the... Read more

While England Slept

By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill

Narrated by: Peter Walters

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavor by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigor, can even at this hour save civilization." – Winston S. Churchill

In 1938, British statesman The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill,... Read more

Destiny Challenged: Churchill and JFK's Fight Over England and Nazi Germany

By: The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill & John...

Narrated by: Peter Walters & AJ Crozby

Length: 24 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Heroic World Leaders Diverge over the Fate of Civilization in this Deluxe
World War II History Enrichment Bundle Edition, Destiny Challenged.
“We ought to rejoice at the responsibilities with which destiny has honored us, and be proud that we are guardians of our country in an age when her life is at stake.” – Winston S. Churchill

In 1938,... Read more

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not... Read more

The Roads to Rome

By: Catherine Fletcher

Narrated by: Catherine Fletcher

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"All roads lead to Rome" is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire—and these ancient roads continue to grip our imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's greatness.



Over the two thousand years since they were built, these roads have been walked by crusaders and... Read more

Tip of the Spear

By: Orisanmi Burton

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what... Read more

Fortress Britain 1940

By: Andrew Chatterton

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alone, unprepared, and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain's position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the reality is very different. On land, sea, and in the air, Britain was prepared. It had the most powerful navy in the world; the RAF was relatively... Read more

When We Sold God's Eye

By: Alex Cuadros

Narrated by: Alex Cuadros

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston).

Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their... Read more

Wars Without End

By: Danny Keenan

Narrated by: Tamati Rimene-Sproat

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Maori have struggled to hold on to their land.

Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Maori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict, one that... Read more

Beyond the Call of Duty

By: Stephen L. Moore

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America’s most decorated Green Beret.

For the first time, Robert Howard’s story is being told in full. Respected military historian Stephen L. Moore takes readers into the heart of the Vietnam... Read more

The Last Tsar

By: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert

When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest.... Read more

The Last Kilo

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more

Agent Zo

By: Clare Mulley

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Clare Mulley

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.



During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka—the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo—was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the Polish... Read more

Heretic

By: Catherine Nixey

Narrated by: Lalla Ward

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

""A brilliant book—sometimes frightening, occasionally funny, frequently unsettling and always a thrill to read. It probes painfully into the pathology of belief."" — The Times From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of... Read more

The Order

By: Kevin Flynn

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture!

Originally published as The Silent Brotherhood, uncover the chilling depths of America’s racist underground with this investigative true crime masterpiece exposing the inner workings of white supremacist militias and domestic terror groups.

Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider’s account of... Read more