History audiobooks

The Covent Garden Ladies

By: Hallie Rubenhold

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris's List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and "specialties." The true history of the book is a tragicomedy... Read more

Europe in the High Middle Ages

By: William Chester Jordan

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance—until the disastrous fourteenth century rained catastrophe in the... Read more

A Brief History of China

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich and complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe. It examines the special conditions that allowed a single... Read more

A Pocket History of Human Evolution

By: Silvana Condemi & Francois Savatier

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are.

Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa.... Read more

The Fall of Richard Nixon

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president.

In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resign from office in anticipation of certain... Read more

On a Knife’s Edge

By: Prit Buttar

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 22 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides.

The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus's... Read more

A Castle in Wartime

By: Catherine Bailey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories

An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms.

As war swept across Europe... Read more

Did America Have a Christian Founding?

By: Mark David Hall

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled "Did America Have a Christian... Read more

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

By: Jung Chang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.

Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father of China', Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's... Read more

Vicksburg

By: Donald L. Miller

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize
Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award

“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil... Read more

Southern Women

By: Editors of Garden and Gun

Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Coleen Marlo, Janina Edwards, Rob...

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun comes this rich collection of some of the South’s most notable women.

For too long, the Southern woman has been synonymous with the Southern belle, a “moonlight and magnolias” myth that gets nowhere close to describing the strong, richly diverse women who have thrived because... Read more

Kindness and Wonder

By: Gavin Edwards

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A pop culture celebration of Fred Rogers and the enduring legacy of his beloved, award-winning PBS show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood that offers essential wisdom to help us in our troubled times. Won’t you be my neighbor?For more than thirty years, Fred Rogers was a beloved fixture in American homes. Warm and welcoming, he spoke directly to... Read more

The Berlin Mission

By: Richard Breitman

Narrated by: Neil Hellegers

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come
In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Just before Hitler came to power, Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein. Once the Nazis began to oppress Jews... Read more

Home Now

By: Cynthia Anderson

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving chronicle of who belongs in America.

Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most... Read more

Dominion

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Tom Holland & Mark Meadows

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of... Read more

Leadership in War

By: Andrew Roberts

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill, Napoleon, and The Last King of America

“Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an... Read more

Hymns of the Republic

By: S. C. Gwynne

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.

The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of the most compelling narratives and one of... Read more

The End is Always Near

By: Dan Carlin

Narrated by: Dan Carlin

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? No... Read more

Codeword Overlord

By: Nigel West

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Allied invasion of Europe during summer 1944 was widely expected, and it fell to the Axis intelligence services to provide High Command with advance warning of the precise date and place of the landings. Using cryptanalysis of Allied signals, undercover agents and ships, and photographic evidence, Axis intelligence was pitted directly... Read more

James Cook

By: Peter FitzSimons

Narrated by: Michael Carman

Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

But who was the real James Cook?

This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of... Read more

So You Wanna Be an Ally

By: Marissa Jenae Johnson & Leslie Mac

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The American Story - Abridged

By: David M. Rubenstein

Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein, David McCullough, Walter I...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story.

These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American history exploring the subjects they intimately know and... Read more

The Young Turks: The History and Legacy of the Political Movement that Attempted to Reform the Ottoman Empire Before Its Collapse

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 2017, Turkey’s President Recip Tayyip Erdogan gave a directive to the Foreign Ministry to go into ravaged Syria and rescue an 87-year-old Turkish man stranded in Damascus by the civil war. The elderly gentleman lived his life simply and quietly. He disliked drawing attention to himself, and he was grieving for his wife who had just... Read more

Dieu d'Abraham, d'Isaac et de Jacob

By: Gabriel Agbo

Narrated by: Agbo

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Les promesses de l'alliance de Dieu n'échouent pas. Ce livre est écrit pour vous aider à réaliser toutes les promesses de Dieu pour votre vie. C'est une étude minutieuse et détaillée, avec des témoignages personnels, sur la capacité et la volonté de Dieu d'accomplir toutes ses paroles envers nous. Il a dit qu'il veille sur ses paroles pour les... Read more