History
55,679 titles- Arctic & Antarctica (50)
Try Audible free
Most Popular
-
The Case for Christ, Revised & Updated
- A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
- By: Lee Strobel
- Narrated by: Lee Strobel
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the son of God? Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts....
-
-
fan of the paper back, loved the audio.
- By Charles on 14-04-2017
-
Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
-
-
good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
-
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
-
-
Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
-
True Girt
- The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2
- By: David Hunt
- Narrated by: David Hunt
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, and sheep. Lots of sheep....
-
-
Such an interesting conversation with history
- By Courtney on 03-01-2017
-
Zero Negativity
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Letting you into areas of his life he’s never talked about before, in Zero Negativity, Ant will show you how to embrace failure and use it to your advantage....
-
-
Bit repetitive really
- By matthew sworder on 20-11-2020
-
The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
-
The Case for Christ, Revised & Updated
- A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
- By: Lee Strobel
- Narrated by: Lee Strobel
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the son of God? Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts....
-
-
fan of the paper back, loved the audio.
- By Charles on 14-04-2017
-
Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
-
-
good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
-
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
-
-
Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
-
True Girt
- The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2
- By: David Hunt
- Narrated by: David Hunt
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, and sheep. Lots of sheep....
-
-
Such an interesting conversation with history
- By Courtney on 03-01-2017
-
Zero Negativity
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Letting you into areas of his life he’s never talked about before, in Zero Negativity, Ant will show you how to embrace failure and use it to your advantage....
-
-
Bit repetitive really
- By matthew sworder on 20-11-2020
-
The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
-
Band of Brothers
- E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world....
-
-
Everyone needs to listen to this
- By Anonymous User on 11-09-2020
-
Burke and Wills
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....
-
-
Returned
- By Anonymon on 28-11-2017
-
American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers....
-
-
All ego, no sniping
- By Andrew on 24-10-2014
-
The Battle of Long Tan
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle....
-
-
A reasonable look at an important battle.
- By DGC on 09-12-2022
-
Hogs in the Sand
- A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal
- By: Buck Wyndham
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes....
-
-
How the a10 is green
- By Anonymous User on 13-02-2024
-
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
- By: M. Doreal
- Narrated by: John Marino
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years.
The writer is....
-
-
Profound guidance!
- By Leeaura Zen on 22-07-2018
-
Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world....
-
-
The perfect audiobook
- By Justin on 11-02-2017
-
Israel
- A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
- By: Noa Tishby
- Narrated by: Noa Tishby
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel....
-
-
Bais and fabrication of facts.
- By Anonymous User on 29-08-2022
-
Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
-
-
Just as yesterday
- By luke.oconnor on 05-02-2020
-
Embrace the Suck
- The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life
- By: Brent Gleeson
- Narrated by: Brent Gleeson, Jason Culp
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
During the brutal crucible of Navy SEAL training, instructors often tell students to "embrace the suck." This phrase conveys the one lesson that is vital for any SEAL hopeful to learn: Lean into the suffering and get comfortable being very uncomfortable....
-
-
Fantastic read
- By Aaron, Australia on 13-07-2023
-
Dead Man Running
- An Insider's Story on One of the World's Most Feared Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs ... The Bandidos
- By: Ross Coulthart, Duncan McNab
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs....
-
-
great narrator/reader but struggled to finish
- By Josh on 21-05-2016
-
The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
-
-
Thank you Forrest
- By Alanna Hale on 18-09-2023
-
The Immortality Key
- The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
- By: Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations....
-
-
Such an incredible story
- By Kyle M. on 05-10-2020
-
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
- A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
- By: John M. Allegro
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This audiobook challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion....
-
-
Waste of time
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-2024
-
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Liberation Through Understanding in the Between
- By: Robert Thurman - translator
- Narrated by: Robert Thurman
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers....
-
-
Narrator is up himself (review of the narrator not the book)
- By Ito on 18-12-2023
-
Led Zeppelin
- The Biography
- By: Bob Spitz
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the author of the definitive New York Times best-selling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group many call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious....
-
-
Excellent, exhaustive and revealing.
- By Colin Boreland on 30-04-2023
-
Kokoda (by Peter FitzSimons)
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Lewis FitzGerald
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved....
-
-
Compulsory listening...we must know this.
- By Phillip on 13-12-2015
-
Killing for Country
- A Family Story
- By: David Marr
- Narrated by: David Marr
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result – a soul-searching Australian history.
-
Hell's Angel
- The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
- By: Sonny Barger
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club....
-
-
goodin
- By Anonymous User on 19-01-2023
-
Girt
- The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 1
- By: David Hunt
- Narrated by: David Hunt
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past....
-
-
A terrible performance and annoying content
- By Jen on 30-11-2016
-
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
- By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....
-
-
Excellent and enjoyable
- By Jennifer Shoesmith on 21-11-2016
-
Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
-
-
Batavia - the worst voice ever
- By Karen on 25-02-2016
-
The Commando
- The Life and Death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG
- By: Ben Mckelvey
- Narrated by: Nick Farnell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The powerful biography of Cameron Baird, VC, MG, one of Australia's most decorated modern soldiers....
-
-
Fabulous
- By Jen Hofman on 22-11-2017
-
Born Twice
- Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior
- By: Dale Hanson
- Narrated by: Dale Hanson
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dale Hanson takes us from a northern Minnesota boyhood to the incredible stresses of US special operations during the Vietnam War....
-
-
Fantastic book highly recommended
- By OBE WAN on 19-06-2023
Learn Something New with Great Courses
-
An Economic History of the World since 1400
- By: Donald J. Harreld, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Donald J. Harreld
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history - the study of how civilizations structured their environments to provide food, shelter, and material goods - a vital lens through which to think about how we arrived at our present, globalized moment. Designed to fill a long-empty gap in how we think about modern history, these 48 lectures are a comprehensive journey through more than 600 years of economic history.
-
-
I have learnt a lot
- By Anonymous User on 19-06-2018
-
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
- By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death was arguably the most significant event in Western history, profoundly affecting every aspect of human life, from the economic and social to the political, religious, and cultural. In its wake the plague left a world that was utterly changed, forever altering the traditional structure of European societies and forcing a rethinking of every single system of Western civilization: food production and trade, the church, political institutions, law, art, and more.
-
-
Fascinating & gripping
- By Ballina Beach on 08-10-2016
-
The Vikings
- By: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Kenneth W. Harl
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As raiders and explorers, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of western Europe. Now, in a series of 36 vivid lectures by an honored teacher and classical scholar, you have the opportunity to understand this remarkable race as never before, studying the Vikings not only as warriors, but in all of the other roles in which they were equally extraordinary - merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
-
-
Vikings more than horned helmets
- By Stan on 27-12-2016
-
The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
-
-
This is from 2005
- By David on 26-07-2018
-
The Fall and Rise of China
- By: Richard Baum, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Baum
- Length: 24 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.
-
-
Absolutely fantastic! 9.9 out of ten! Would have been a 10/10 if it was updated to include the last 10 years.
- By Alex on 24-04-2019
-
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
- By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.
-
-
Excellent and enjoyable
- By Jennifer Shoesmith on 21-11-2016
-
An Economic History of the World since 1400
- By: Donald J. Harreld, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Donald J. Harreld
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history - the study of how civilizations structured their environments to provide food, shelter, and material goods - a vital lens through which to think about how we arrived at our present, globalized moment. Designed to fill a long-empty gap in how we think about modern history, these 48 lectures are a comprehensive journey through more than 600 years of economic history.
-
-
I have learnt a lot
- By Anonymous User on 19-06-2018
-
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
- By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death was arguably the most significant event in Western history, profoundly affecting every aspect of human life, from the economic and social to the political, religious, and cultural. In its wake the plague left a world that was utterly changed, forever altering the traditional structure of European societies and forcing a rethinking of every single system of Western civilization: food production and trade, the church, political institutions, law, art, and more.
-
-
Fascinating & gripping
- By Ballina Beach on 08-10-2016
-
The Vikings
- By: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Kenneth W. Harl
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As raiders and explorers, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of western Europe. Now, in a series of 36 vivid lectures by an honored teacher and classical scholar, you have the opportunity to understand this remarkable race as never before, studying the Vikings not only as warriors, but in all of the other roles in which they were equally extraordinary - merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
-
-
Vikings more than horned helmets
- By Stan on 27-12-2016
-
The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
-
-
This is from 2005
- By David on 26-07-2018
-
The Fall and Rise of China
- By: Richard Baum, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Baum
- Length: 24 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.
-
-
Absolutely fantastic! 9.9 out of ten! Would have been a 10/10 if it was updated to include the last 10 years.
- By Alex on 24-04-2019
-
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
- By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.
-
-
Excellent and enjoyable
- By Jennifer Shoesmith on 21-11-2016
New Releases
-
The Cleopatras
- By: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrated by: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells us. But the real-life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt before it was subsumed into the Roman Empire. These extraordinary women keep a close grip on power in the wealthiest country of the ancient world.
-
The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Giles Milton
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership. There were real fears that Stalin's forces would be defeated or that the Soviet leader would once again strike a deal with Hitler. Either eventuality would spell catastrophe for both Britain and America.
-
The Traitor of Arnhem
- WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Following the Western Allies' overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation Market Garden is Britain's attempt to beat the Russians to Berlin and be the first to help craft the new world order. With 10,000 men dropped into Arnhem and another 20,000 in Grave, the British are set to secure the area and declare victory. However, Dutch resistance hero Christian Lindemans has other plans. Lindemans is determined to help the Germans gain the lead in the war and begins to dismantle the operation from within.
-
The Scandal of the Century
- By: Lisa Hilton
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage.
-
Pixel Flesh
- How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
- By: Ellen Atlanta
- Narrated by: Ellen Atlanta
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We now live in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, accessible tweakments, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more images than we were ever meant to see, we have the ability to craft ourselves in whichever way we please. We pinch, pull, squeeze, tweeze, smooth and slice ourselves beyond recognition. But is modern beauty culture truly empowering? Are we really in control?
-
Apache at War
- An Elite Pilot's Story
- By: Steve Jones
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Steve Jones is a former senior British combat pilot flying with the Army Air Corps (AAC), and Apache At War is his vivid and uncompromising account of flying 'the ultimate fighting machine', the Apache AH1 attack helicopter in action. From patrolling 'Bandit Country' in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s, to taking out Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the mid to late 2000s, with active service in the Balkans and Iraq along the way: Steve Jones offers the taut, gritty, and graphic reality of flying in military service.
-
The Cleopatras
- By: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrated by: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells us. But the real-life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt before it was subsumed into the Roman Empire. These extraordinary women keep a close grip on power in the wealthiest country of the ancient world.
-
The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Giles Milton
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership. There were real fears that Stalin's forces would be defeated or that the Soviet leader would once again strike a deal with Hitler. Either eventuality would spell catastrophe for both Britain and America.
-
The Traitor of Arnhem
- WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Following the Western Allies' overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation Market Garden is Britain's attempt to beat the Russians to Berlin and be the first to help craft the new world order. With 10,000 men dropped into Arnhem and another 20,000 in Grave, the British are set to secure the area and declare victory. However, Dutch resistance hero Christian Lindemans has other plans. Lindemans is determined to help the Germans gain the lead in the war and begins to dismantle the operation from within.
-
The Scandal of the Century
- By: Lisa Hilton
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage.
-
Pixel Flesh
- How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
- By: Ellen Atlanta
- Narrated by: Ellen Atlanta
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We now live in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, accessible tweakments, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more images than we were ever meant to see, we have the ability to craft ourselves in whichever way we please. We pinch, pull, squeeze, tweeze, smooth and slice ourselves beyond recognition. But is modern beauty culture truly empowering? Are we really in control?
-
Apache at War
- An Elite Pilot's Story
- By: Steve Jones
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Steve Jones is a former senior British combat pilot flying with the Army Air Corps (AAC), and Apache At War is his vivid and uncompromising account of flying 'the ultimate fighting machine', the Apache AH1 attack helicopter in action. From patrolling 'Bandit Country' in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s, to taking out Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the mid to late 2000s, with active service in the Balkans and Iraq along the way: Steve Jones offers the taut, gritty, and graphic reality of flying in military service.
-
War of the Flea
- The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
- By: Robert Taber
- Narrated by: Scott Pollak
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Whether ideological, nationalistic, or religious, all guerrilla insurgencies use similar tactics to advance their cause. War of the Flea's timeless analysis of the guerrilla fighter’s means and methods provides a fundamental resource for any listener seeking to understand this form of warfare.
-
Moneta
- A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
- By: Gareth Harney
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced: by its beauty, its hardiness and its power to tell stories and connect us with the ancient past. He realised that coins, more than being simply markers of exchange, are metal canvases upon which societies could immortalise their ideas, cultures, personalities, tragedies and triumphs. His small tarnished coin, then, actually told the epic story of Rome.
-
The History Lessons
- By: Shalina Patel
- Narrated by: Shalina Patel
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Taking a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval castles and more, this hugely entertaining debut from an award-winning history teacher explores a variety of historical topics in a thoughtful and engaging way. It will appeal to anybody seeking to expand their historical knowledge, with an approachable and accessible style that will take you on an eye-opening and jaw-dropping journey.
-
Literature for the People
- How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse
- By: Sarah Harkness
- Narrated by: Sarah Harkness
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Daniel and Alexander Macmillan arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, set up a publishing house that spread radical ideas on equality, science and education across the world. They also brought authors like Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy and Charles Kingsley, and poets like Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, to a mass audience. No longer would books be just for the upper classes. In Literature for the People Sarah Harkness brings to life these two amusing, warm-hearted men.
-
The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
- By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt-related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.
-
The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
-
I Will Show You How It Was
- The Story of Wartime Kyiv
- By: Illia Ponomarenko
- Narrated by: Sergey Nagorny
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
I Will Show You How It Was is Illia Ponomarenko’s heart-wrenching memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost. But it’s also a story of pride and even elation as Ukrainian forces come together, find their mojo, and oust the invaders from Kyiv. The most powerful and personal chronicle of the war to date, I Will Show You How It Was is an exceptional literary achievement, chronicling a stunning feat of resistance and a courageous people set on a miraculous victory.
-
Eisenhower
- Becoming the Leader of the Free World
- By: Louis Galambos
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The long-time editor of the Eisenhower papers, Galambos may know more about this president than anyone alive. In this compelling book, he explores the shifts in Eisenhower’s identity and reputation over his lifetime and explains how he developed his distinctive leadership skills. As a career military officer, Eisenhower’s progress was uneven. Galambos shows how Ike, with the help of Brigadier General Fox Conner, his mentor and patron, learned how to profit from his mistakes, pivot quickly, and grow as a military and civilian leader.
-
Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Intelligence and Assessments
- By: Ann Taylor
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Britain was encouraged to participate in the second Gulf War by the publication of an intelligence report that suggested that Saddam Hussein could attack the UK with weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. When the WMDs failed to materialise, the original report was questioned, it was suggested in parliament that it had been "sexed up" as a way to scare the UK into war. Ann Taylor (MP) led an investigation to determine if the the public had been misled, and this is what they found.
-
A History of the Muslim World
- From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
- By: Michael A. Cook
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 52 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the work takes listeners from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
-
Send Me
- The True Story of a Mother at War
- By: Marty Skovlund, Joe Kent
- Narrated by: Joe Kent, Marty Skovlund
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as “operators.” Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as one of the best. Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name can’t even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world.
-
The Unvanquished
- The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations
- By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome.