History audiobooks

The Strategists

By: Phillips Payson O'Brien

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.

In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists — and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Destroyer Captain

By: James D. Hornfischer & David J. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Lou Del Bianco & David J. Hornfischer

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

From James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrifice during the Leyte Gulf Battle of Samar.

For the first time ever, acclaimed naval historian James D. Hornfischer, “the dean of World War II... Read more

Wuhan

By: Dali L. Yang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, has claimed millions of lives and caused unprecedented disruptions. Despite its generation-defining significance, there has been a surprising lack of independent research examining the decisions and measures implemented in the weeks leading up to the Wuhan lockdown, as well... Read more

The Game of Hearts

By: Felicity Day

Narrated by: Heather Tracy

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to London's marriage season. Six high society women are preparing for the biggest moment of their lives: finding a suitable husband. But their stories aren't what you may have read in historic romances by Julia Quinn or Georgette Heyer. In The Game of Hearts, go behind the drawing-room door with history author Felicity Day and delve into... Read more

Those About To Die

By: Daniel P. Mannix

Narrated by: Brian P. Craig

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.



The games began in 238 BC as nearly county fair–like entertainment, with trick riding, acrobats, trained animals, chariot racing, and athletic events. The contests... Read more

The First Hellcat Ace

By: Hamilton McWhorter

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hamilton McWhorter III's service to family and country make him a standout among America's Greatest Generation. A Georgia native whose family roots date from that region's settlement during the 1700s, McWhorter was a naval aviation cadet undergoing training when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941. After earning his Wings of... Read more

The Berlin Airlift

By: John Tusa & Ann Tusa

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"A detailed dramatic narrative . . . Vivid." —Times (London) Literary Supplement. How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade.



In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin stood as the lone Western... Read more

Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 1

By: Eric Krasno

Narrated by: Eric Krasno

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists—and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is... Read more

Through the Morgue Door

By: Colette Brull-Ulmann & Jean-Christophe Portes

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted by Petain's government. Her father had been arrested and interned at the Drancy detention camp and Brull-Ulman had become an... Read more

The Food Book

By: DK

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served up on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli. A true celebration of food in all its forms, The Food Book follows the human quest for sustenance through the stories of individual ingredients and examines our millenia-long relationship with nearly 200 foods - from... Read more

The Archive of Empire

By: Asheesh Kapur Siddique

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire



Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information... Read more

The Bedford Boys

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day
They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died... Read more

Where Tyranny Begins

By: David Rohde

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so successfully that when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, he paid little political cost and, despite an unprecedented array of criminal indictments, easily... Read more

Catherine de' Medici

By: Mary Hollingsworth

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

During an age of heightened religious conflict, Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the center of sixteenth-century European and French politics. Daughter of Lorenzo II, the Medici ruler of Florence—and then wedded to a French prince by papal decree at the age of fourteen—Catherine first became queen consort of France and then mother to three... Read more

Disarming Leviathan

By: Caleb E. Campbell

Narrated by: Caleb E. Campbell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism has taken over large swaths of the United States. And he's suffered the relational fallout of standing against it, both in his community and his church. While it's possible to be both a Christian and hold Christian nationalist ideas, Christian nationalism itself is an un-Christian... Read more

Invisible No More

By: Raymond Foxworth & Steve Dubb

Narrated by: Jason Grasl

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, "We are still here!" Yet today, Native leaders are at the center of social change, challenging philanthropic organizations that have historically excluded Native people, and... Read more

La Historia Prohibida De Arabia Saudita

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"LA HISTORIA PROHIBIDA DE ARABIA SAUDITA" es una obra reveladora que se sumerge en las profundidades ocultas del enigmático reino del desierto. Este libro desafía la narrativa oficial y explora los secretos mejor guardados de uno de los países más influyentes y herméticos del mundo.A lo largo de sus páginas, el lector descubrirá: Los orígenes... Read more

At War with Ourselves

By: H. R. McMaster

Narrated by: H. R. McMaster

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the... Read more

Double Exposure

By: Robert Sullivan

Narrated by: Colm O'Leary

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Timothy O'Sullivan is America's most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don't know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. He was also among the first photographers to elevate what was then a trade to the status of fine art. The images of the American West he made after the war, while... Read more

The Few

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes "a rousing tale of little-known heroes" (Booklist).
The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side... Read more

Blacksound

By: Matthew D. Morrison

Narrated by: Matthew D. Morrison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry.



Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound"... Read more