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MRF Shadow Troop
By: Simon Cursey
Narrated by: Johnathan Rufus Welsh
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Some thought it stood for 'Military Reconnaissance Force', others 'Mobile Reconnaissance Force'. Many people thought it didn't exist at all . . .
For decades there has been argument in the media and amongst politicians about the possible existence and extent of a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland. MRF Shadow Troop confirms there was such... Read more
Empire of Destruction
By: Alex J. Kay
Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing—showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war
Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish,... Read more
Deadly Aim
By: Sally M. Walker
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
More than 20,000 American Indians served in the Civil War, yet their stories have often been left out of the history books. In Deadly Aim, Sally M. Walker explores the extraordinary lives of Michigan’s Anishinaabe sharpshooters. These brave soldiers served with honor and heroism in the line of duty, despite enduring broken treaties, loss of... Read more
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Nixon's War at Home
By: Daniel S. Chard
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands of pages of... Read more
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The Norman Conquest in English History
By: George Garnett
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create)... Read more
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Midnight's Borders
By: Suchitra Vijayan
Narrated by: Sunny Patel
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people—especially those living in disputed... Read more
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The Shattering
By: Kevin Boyle
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 18 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social... Read more
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Strange Medicine
By: Nathan Belofsky
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an... Read more
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The Lie About the Truck
By: Sallie Tisdale
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the acclaimed Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) brings “her singular sensibility, her genius for language, her love of our deeply imperfect world” (Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women) to this insightful exploration of reality TV and the shifting definitions of truth in America.
What is the truth?
... Read more
Restricted Data
By: Alex Wellerstein
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 17 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy... Read more
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The Mantle Of Command
By: Nigel Hamilton
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 20 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR’s White House Oval Study—his personal command center—and into the meetings where he... Read more
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Veterano de tres guerras - Parte 2
By: Guillermo Parvex
Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
El best seller de la crónica histórica ahora se suma al catálogo de Ediciones B
Reedición revisada y aumentada del best seller que reúne las experiencias del abogado y oficial de ejercito José Miguel Varela, en la Guerra del Pacifico, las Campañas de la Araucanía y Guerra Civil de 1891. Un libro que en su primera versión ha vendido más de... Read more
Veterano de tres guerras - Parte 3
By: Guillermo Parvex
Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
El best seller de la crónica histórica ahora se suma al catálogo de Ediciones B
Reedición revisada y aumentada del best seller que reúne las experiencias del abogado y oficial de ejercito José Miguel Varela, en la Guerra del Pacifico, las Campañas de la Araucanía y Guerra Civil de 1891. Un libro que en su primera versión ha vendido más de... Read more
Crímenes de los Nazi
By: Clark Roberts
Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Te gustaría sumergirte en el pasado oscuro de la humanidad? ¿Aquellos sucesos que quisiéramos que nunca hubiesen existido pero siguen presentes? Pensabas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial ¿no es así? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“Lo que se ha hecho no se puede deshacer, pero se puede evitar que ocurra de nuevo” - Anna Frank
La historia del mundo está llena... Read more
Strategy and Ethics: The audiobook box of classical thinkers
By: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu & Niccolò M...
Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
How do I live life right? When I have to go to battle – how do I win? If I want to gain power – how do I keep it? This audiobook box collects four of the most famous philosophical works in world history: Sun Tzu: The Art of War. Epictetus: The Enchiridion – The handbook of moral instructions. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations. Thoughts of an Emperor.... Read more
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Stamped: el racismo, el antirracismo y tú
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Víctor Sabi & Pablo Matos
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestseller del New York Times y del USAToday Una exploración oportuna y crucial del racismo y el antirracismo en Estados Unidos Este NO es un libro de historia. Este es un libro sobre el aquí y el ahora. Un libro que nos ayudará a comprender mejor por qué estamos donde estamos.Un libro sobre la raza. El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado... Read more
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A Brief History of the Martial Arts
By: Jonathan Clements
Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements'
RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial History Team blog
From Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a new history of the evolution of East Asian styles of unarmed combat, from Kung Fu to... Read more
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
By: Jonathan Clements
Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His armies conquered the Asian kingdom of Dali and... Read more
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TWO REVOLUTIONS AND THE CONSTITUTION
By: James D. R. Philips
Narrated by: James D. R. Philips
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Two Revolutions and the Constitution” describes how the American Constitution secured the gains of the American Revolution. It tells the story of how the American constitutional system drew on both Americans' experience of partial self-government in colonial America and their understanding of the British constitution. It also tells how, when... Read more
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Gastronomy in Mesoamerica: The History of Indigenous People’s Diets Before and After European Contact
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Indigenous groups settling in Mesoamerica had different languages, political and social organizations, traditions, and beliefs; however, there were a series of traits that included the use and consumption of many food sources present throughout the entire territory. The domestication of important plants like maize, beans, squash, and chili... Read more
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Korean War Stories
By: War History Journals
Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Inspiring stories of courage and sacrifice by US Army and Marines during the Korean War." The Korean war killed nearly 5 million people in a frozen hell of fire and blood.Soldiers and Marines recount how they were thrown into a savage conflict on the war-torn Korean peninsula. Uncover their gritty, real-life stories of combat, courage, and... Read more
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The Darker Nations
By: Vijay Prashad
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and... Read more
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The Religion of the Chinese
By: J.J.M De Groot
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This book details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He thought that one spiritual essence could be detected beneath a great variety of religious, philosophical, and even political expressions in China,... Read more
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Can We Talk About Israel?
By: Daniel Sokatch
Narrated by: Daniel Sokatch
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
National Jewish Book Award finalist
An essential and accessible introduction to one of the most complex, controversial topics in the world, from a leading expert on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When it comes to Israel and Palestine, it can be hard to know what to say. Daniel Sokatch gets it. He heads the New Israel Fund, an... Read more