History audiobooks

Giro d'Italia

By: Colin O'Brien

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Giro d'Italia—Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many—is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals, tradition under threat from modernity all play out against a timeless landscape. The iconic riders, mythical... Read more

Palestine in a World on Fire

By: Ilan Pappe & Katherine Natanel

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and... Read more

Death in Briar Bottom

By: Timothy Silver

Narrated by: Andre Bellido

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana,... Read more

Seven Virginians

By: John B. Boles

Narrated by: Brandon Pollock

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.



Most accounts of the... Read more

The Madman in the White House

By: Patrick Weil

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the fate of millions rests on the decisions of a mentally compromised leader, what can one person do? Disillusioned by President Woodrow Wilson's destructive and irrational handling of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a US diplomat named William C. Bullitt asked this very question. With the help of his friend Sigmund Freud, Bullitt set out to... Read more

Four Against the West

By: Joe Pappalardo

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels, and scandals will play out on the battlefields... Read more

The Tin Ticket

By: Deborah J. Swiss

Narrated by: Corinne Davies

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The convict women who built a continent . . . "A moving and fascinating story." —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost



Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of... Read more

The Story of the Bee Gees

By: Bob Stanley

Narrated by: Paul Fox

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Story of the Bee Gees pulls together every fascinating strand to tell the story of a group with the imagination of the Beatles, the pop craft of ABBA, the drama of Fleetwood Mac, and the emotional heft of the Beach Boys. Uniquely, the Bee Gees's tale spans the entire modern pop era—they are the only group to have scored British top-ten... Read more

The Kremlin’s Noose

By: Amy Knight

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky. When Putin began dismantling Boris Yeltsin's democratic reforms, Berezovsky came into conflict with the new Russian leader by reproaching him publicly. Their relationship quickly disintegrated into a bitter feud played out against the... Read more

Freedom

By: Angela Merkel

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time

For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her... Read more

The Chess Revolution

By: Peter Doggers

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s top chess journalists in the world explores why, after 1,500 years of existence, chess has never been more relevant than now. Chess is not just one of the greatest games ever devised. It has inspired writers, painters, and filmmakers, and is a secret mover behind technical revolutions like artificial intelligence that are... Read more

The Price They Paid

By: Jeff Forret

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of... Read more

Game On

By: David Bockino

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Game On David Bockino, a former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN turned professor of communications and sport management, provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry.



From the groundbreaking radio broadcast of the Jack Dempsey—Georges Carpentier boxing match in 1921 and the launch of Sports Illustrated... Read more

Mission to Mao

By: Sara B. Castro

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).



Mission to Mao is a social history... Read more

Crown, Cloak, and Dagger

By: Rory Cormac & Richard J. Aldrich

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Surprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligence



The British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the British State. Crown, Cloak, and Dagger offers a new history of how the two have been inextricably linked from the reign of Queen Victoria to the... Read more

Dark Sun

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet... Read more

The Icon and the Idealist

By: Stephanie Gorton

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely... Read more

The Basketball 100

By: The Athletic & Dan Kaufman

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA—from The Athletic’s foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer.Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the best sports newsroom on the planet paints vivid portraits of the game’s most compelling... Read more

2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: John C. Lennox

Narrated by: John C. Lennox

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Read by the author. Will technology change what it means to be human??You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily impact on our lives, and many of us see good reasons... Read more

The Meaning of Beer

By: Jonny Garrett

Narrated by: Jonny Garrett

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonny Garrett, cofounder of the YouTube sensation Craft Beer Channel, travels in search of the deeper cultural impact of brewing—how it has become one of the world’s most important inventions and shaped our lives for millennia.

What’s the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course. And it might just be one of our more... Read more

The Book of Viking Myths

By: Peter Archer

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating new book reveals the origins of the Vikings—from Thor and Leif Erikson to Loki and the Valkyries—and the tales that have influenced our own lives.

For thousands of years, Vikings have held a storied place in our culture—their distinct appearance, their mighty longships, their reputation for causing death and destruction. But who... Read more

How to Make Money

By: Pliny

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of... Read more

De prijs die we betalen

By: David Grossman

Narrated by: Wilbert Gieske

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict door de ogen van David Grossman. In tien korte essays schetst Grossman de (voor)geschiedenis van 7 oktober als een serie van desastreuze beslissingen van een nationalistische en alleen op machtsbehoud gefocuste regering, voor wie taal, cultuur en de vrijheid van het denken geen onbetwistbare waarden meer... Read more

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings

By: Charles Hapgood

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map,... Read more