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George Patton
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Desmond Manny
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the captivating life of George Patton.General George S. Patton remains a household name to this day even though he died decades ago. Not only was he a brilliant military commander, he was also a forceful personality and a flamboyant human being whose strong character led him through many difficulties. This biography aims to tell Patton's... Read more
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The Death of Hitler
By: Jean-Christophe Brisard & Lana Parshina
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history, when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Truman and Churchill that Hitler was still alive and had... Read more
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Confidential Confidential
By: Samantha Barbas
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including their sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison... Read more
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A World Ablaze
By: Craig Harline
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical imagination, it's hard to separate the legend from the life, or even sometimes... Read more
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Harriet Tubman
By: Ann Petry
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Jason Reynolds
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a foreword written and read by National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds and additional new material. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was praised by the New Yorker as “an evocative... Read more
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Historia de las palabras
By: Daniel Balmaceda
Narrated by: Sebastián Pinardi
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Cada palabra tiene su origen en una anécdota que sorprende por simple y desopilante.
Daniel Balmaceda ha unido en este libro sus dos pasiones: la historia y la palabra. ¿De dónde surgieron términos como "abatatarse" o "boicotear"? ¿Por qué le decimos cubiertos a los utensilios que usamos para comer? ¿Por qué conocemos como jacuzzis a las... Read more
How America Won World War I
By: Alan Axelrod
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his... Read more
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Empire of Booze
By: Henry Jeffreys
Narrated by: David Thorpe
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic drinks came to be. Read about how we owe the champagne we drink today to 17th-century methods for making sparkling cider; how madeira and India... Read more
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TR's Last War
By: David Pietrusza
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied "Americanism," a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line... Read more
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How to Grow Old
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all—and why you might discover that reading and gardening are... Read more
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The Bulldog Track
By: Peter Phelps
Narrated by: Peter Phelps
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.
March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of... Read more
The Reagans
By: Anne Edwards
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So Nancy Davis... Read more
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Scotland Yard's First Cases
By: Joan Lock
Narrated by: Richard Fox
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
When Scotland Yard's first detective branch was set up in 1842, crime was very different from today. The favoured murder weapon was the cut-throat razor; carrying a pocket watch was dangerous; the most significant clue at a murder scene could be the whereabouts of a candlestick or a hat; large households (family, servants and lodgers)... Read more
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21 lecciones para el siglo XXI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Las mejores obras contemporáneas para escuchar Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado. Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro.21 lecciones para el siglo XXI es una exploración de nuestro presente. ¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos ecológicos o las tecnologías disruptivas? ¿Qué podemos hacer contra la... Read more
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Polynesian Mythology
By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Gareth Johnson
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is dedicated to exploring the gods and goddesses that the Polynesian people worshiped, and within the pages you will find more information about: Background facts about the Polynesian culture, such as family, social stratification, education, fishing, gardening, religion, art, and traditions The intriguing legend and background story... Read more
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
By: Alan Jacobs
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. A war won by technological... Read more
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 27 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it"... Read more
Scots and Catalans
By: J.H. Elliott
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland.
This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period,... Read more
Real Enemies
By: Kathryn S. Olmsted
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows... Read more
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Lincoln and His Admirals
By: Craig L. Symonds
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until now,... Read more
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Secret Treasure of Oak Island
By: D'Arcy O'Connor
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, and as McGinnis and two friends started to... Read more
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.
13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of... Read more
Empress
By: Ruby Lal
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favorite wife of the Emperor Jahangir, who ruled the vast Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she issued imperial orders; coins of the realm bore her name. When Jahangir was imprisoned by... Read more
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Six Days of Impossible
By: Robert Adams
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Six days in Hell define every SEAL that moves past the point of no return in their minds. Robert Adams, MD, brings the experiences of his classmates into view with real, difficult to believe experiences, described in frightening detail by the men that lived through the frigid cold, filthy muddy... Read more
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