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Historical nonfiction audiobooks

"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it". Get your knowledge on with the best of bygone eras. Mystery, intrigue and more - The truth is stranger than fiction.
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    The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    **“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.”— Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste“This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Bomber Mafia

    A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Astor

    The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Max the Miracle Dog: The Heart-warming Tale of a Life-saving Friendship

    by Kerry Irving ...
    Narrated by Marston York ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    The Sunday Times bestseller’Are you ready, Max? If anyone’s going to help me do this, it’s you.’The heart-warming tale of a life-saving friendship.In 2006, a traumatic car accident changed Kerry Irving’s life forever.Suffering from severe neck and back injuries, Kerry was unemployed and housebound, struggling with depression and even thoughts of suicide. He went from cycling over 600 miles a month ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Stepping-Stones

    A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages. Over more than ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Toksvig's Almanac 2021

    An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig

    by Sandi Toksvig ...
    Narrated by Sandi Toksvig ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    'Fierce, funny and long overdue - I read this book out loud to anyone who'd listen.' Adam Kay'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, if you like. How I would have loved to have written out in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Daughter of Auschwitz

    My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEYA powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz."I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and a half ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The War on History

    The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past

    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history—the fundamental concepts, institutions, and icons that make our country what it is. And we have failed to protect ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Year 1000

    When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world’s societies at the end of the first millennium.People often... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Red Mirror

    Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity

    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared collective perspective that unites many Russian citizens. Under his tenure, the Kremlin's media machine has tapped into powerful group emotions of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The War That Made the Roman Empire

    Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

    by Barry Strauss ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir, young ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers

    Early Adventures in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness and Glacier National Park

    by John Fraley ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    The North, Middle, and South Forks of the Flathead River drain some of the wildest country in Montana, including Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. In Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers, John Fraley recounts the true adventures of people who earned their living among the mountains and along the cold, clear rivers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Race and Reckoning

    From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors

    by Ellis Cose ...
    Narrated by Korey Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    Spanning from the nation’s earliest years through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that interrogates how pivotal decisions have established and continued discriminatory practices in the United States, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.Throughout our nation’s history, numerous ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Divorce Colony

    How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

    by April White ...
    Narrated by April White, Lisa Flanagan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    King Henry IV

    Struggle for a Crown Book 4

    by Griff Hosker ...
    Narrated by Marston York ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Struggle for a Crown

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    The latest book in the Struggle For A Crown series by bestselling author Griff Hosker!King Richard is barely buried when the men who opposed him plot and plan to remove the new King, Henry Bolingbroke! With enemies in the north and the west, the new king and his son, Henry of Monmouth, find themselves besieged on all sides not knowing whom they can trust. William Strongstaff, now a lord, is the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Liar's Circus

    A Strange and Terrifying Journey into the Upside-Down World of Trump’s MAGA Rallies

    by Carl Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    "A brilliant, riveting, funny, terrifying journey into the beating heart of Trumpland." —Liza Mundy, author of Code GirlsIn this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trump’s rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president’s base.Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    24 Hours in Ancient Rome

    A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

    Narrated by Michael Page ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - 24 Hours in Ancient History

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities-one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character-from emperor to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    We Carry Their Bones

    The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

    by Erin Kimmerle ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 1 min

    "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Divine Plan

    John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War

    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins.Few realized at the time how close both men came to dying.Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that historians have failed to appreciate.When John Paul II and Reagan met only a year later, they confided to each ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Beyond Valor

    A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race against Time

    Narrated by Jon Erwin, Zach Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: Stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. But it didn't go as planned. Beyond Valor is one soldier's extraordinary tale of bravery, faith, and devotion.Onboard one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Why The New Deal Matters

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in US history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a building or bridge built through New Deal initiatives. If you have taken out a small business loan from the federal government or drawn unemployment, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    In True Face

    A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

    by Jonna Mendez ...
    Narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their ... Read more

    $27.99 USD $24.99 USD

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    The Last Slave Ship

    The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

    by Ben Raines ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Turning Point

    The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II

    Narrated by Michael Veitch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgotten - hour. Forgotten, until now.In August 1942, Japan's forces were unstoppable. Having ... Read more

    $25.99 USD