Germany in History & Nonfiction Audiobooks

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The German War

A Nation under Arms, 1939–1945; Citizens and Soldiers

by Nicholas Stargardt ...

Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

Unabridged

24 hours 14 min

A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche.As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and ... Read more

$41.95 CAD

A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche.As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and
... Read more
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The Crusades

The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

by Thomas Asbridge ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

25 hours 32 min

Narrated by Derek PerkinsFrom a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city ... Read more

$66.99 CAD

Narrated by Derek PerkinsFrom a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city
... Read more
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Blood and Iron

The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871–1918

by Katja Hoyer ...

Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

This vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871–1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty ... Read more

$27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871–1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty
... Read more
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The Chancellor

by Kati Marton ...

Narrated by Kati Marton, Alex Allwine ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the
... Read more
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Chastise

The Dambusters

by Max Hastings ...

Narrated by Max Hastings, Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War, yet it has also become one of the most misunderstood.Max Hastings tells the gripping story of the Dambusters raid, from the invention of the bouncing bomb to the moonlit cockpits of young ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War, yet it has also become one of the most misunderstood.Max Hastings tells the gripping story of the Dambusters raid, from the invention of the bouncing bomb to the moonlit cockpits of young
... Read more
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Nazi Terror

The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans

by Eric A. Johnson ...

Narrated by Edward Lewis ...

Unabridged

17 hours 50 min

Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he ... Read more

$39.15 CAD

Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he
... Read more
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

A History of Nazi Germany

by William L. Shirer ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

57 hours 12 min

The inspiration for the gripping docuseries Hitler and the Nazis, now streaming on NetflixSince its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century’s blackest hours.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly ... Read more

$55.95 CAD

The inspiration for the gripping docuseries Hitler and the Nazis, now streaming on NetflixSince its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century’s blackest hours.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly
... Read more
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Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

by Norman Ohler ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Blitzed by Norman Ohler, read by Jonathan Keeble.**The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives.'Bursting with interesting facts'** **Vice'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented ... Read more

$18.53 CAD

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Blitzed by Norman Ohler, read by Jonathan Keeble.**The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives.'Bursting with interesting facts'** **Vice'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented
... Read more
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Freedom

Memoirs 1954 – 2021

by Angela Merkel ...

Narrated by Juliet Stevenson ...

Unabridged

27 hours 4 min

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political
... Read more
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They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45

by Milton Mayer ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian ... Read more

$27.81 CAD

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian
... Read more
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Killing the Bismarck

Destroying the Pride of Hitler’s Fleet

by Iain Ballantyne ...

Narrated by Traber Burns ...

Unabridged

11 hours 31 min

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of ... Read more

$32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of
... Read more
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The Wages of Destruction

The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

by Adam Tooze ...

Narrated by Adam Tooze, Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

30 hours 19 min

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how
... Read more
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Waste Land

A World in Permanent Crisis

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

6 hours 42 min

**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John ... Read more

$23.50 CAD

**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John
... Read more
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Stay Alive

Berlin, 1939-1945

by Ian Buruma ...

Narrated by Ian Buruma ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation**In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their ... Read more

$32.00 CAD

**Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation**In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their
... Read more
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I Am Dynamite!

A Life of Nietzsche

by Sue Prideaux ...

Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith ...

Unabridged

17 hours 19 min

**NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZEA groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast**Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZEA groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast**Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people
... Read more
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Goering

The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader

by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

14 hours 55 min

A penetrating biography of one of the most infamous members of the Nazi high command.In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows. After rising through the ranks of the German army, Hermann Goering became Hitler's right hand man and was hand-picked to head the Luftwaffe, ... Read more

$40.70 CAD

A penetrating biography of one of the most infamous members of the Nazi high command.In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows. After rising through the ranks of the German army, Hermann Goering became Hitler's right hand man and was hand-picked to head the Luftwaffe,
... Read more
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Hunting Evil

The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice

by Guy Walters ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

Unabridged

18 hours 29 min

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured -- or managed to ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured -- or managed to
... Read more
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The Nazis

A Warning From History

by Laurence Rees ...

Narrated by Jonthan Keeble ...

Unabridged

11 hours 41 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Brought to you by Penguin.Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into
... Read more
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Mengele And Nazi Doctors During The Third Reich

by Joshua Itzkowitz ...

Narrated by Jack Stonemason ...

Unabridged

3 hours 21 min

The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples of human rights and ethics breaches the world has so far seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as “other” or irrelevant. The greatest good that can come from these atrocities is the lessons they have to teach about what plays into and creates a hostile research environment. Before the ... Read more

$16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples of human rights and ethics breaches the world has so far seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as “other” or irrelevant. The greatest good that can come from these atrocities is the lessons they have to teach about what plays into and creates a hostile research environment. Before the
... Read more
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Magnificent Rebels

The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

by Andrea Wulf ...

Narrated by Julie Teal ...

Unabridged

15 hours 1 min

**A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

**A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.A BEST BOOK OF THE
... Read more
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Explaining Hitler

The Search for the Origins of His Evil

by Ron Rosenbaum ...

Narrated by Steve Quinn ...

Unabridged

22 hours 23 min

In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a ... Read more

$63.78 CAD

In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a
... Read more
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Achtung Panzer!

by Heinz Guderian ...

Narrated by Roger Davis ...

Series series W&N Military
Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War.Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of careful study since his days on the German General Staff in the First World War, ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War.Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of careful study since his days on the German General Staff in the First World War,
... Read more
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Beyond the Wall

A History of East Germany

by Katja Hoyer ...

Narrated by Sam Peter Jackson ...

Unabridged

16 hours 20 min

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically
... Read more
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ODESSA

The Controversial History of the Mysterious Network that Helped Nazis Escape Germany after World War II

by Charles River Editors ...

Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

Unabridged

1 hour 26 min

Cloak and dagger espionage, assassination, dangerous adventure, and strange deceptions such as the Operation Mincemeat plan wherein the corpse of a Welsh pauper fitted with a uniform and false papers deceived the Nazi hierarchy about the location of the Western Allies' first landing in Europe, all constitute as real a part of World War II's kaleidoscopically varied history as battles and clear-cut ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Cloak and dagger espionage, assassination, dangerous adventure, and strange deceptions such as the Operation Mincemeat plan wherein the corpse of a Welsh pauper fitted with a uniform and false papers deceived the Nazi hierarchy about the location of the Western Allies' first landing in Europe, all constitute as real a part of World War II's kaleidoscopically varied history as battles and clear-cut
... Read more

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