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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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    Black AF History

    The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

    Narrated by Michael Harriot ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 42 min

    From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Immortality Key

    The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

    Unabridged

    16 hours 13 min

    **Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse**This program includes a Foreword ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Philip

    The Final Portrait - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    Narrated by Gyles Brandreth ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    Elizabeth, their marriage and their dynasty.This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years.Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Princes in the Tower

    Solving History's Greatest Cold Case

    Narrated by Philippa Langley ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 43 min

    Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of over 366 million.Now, Langley reveals the findings of a remarkable new research initiative: ‘The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Fossil Capital

    The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

    by Andreas Malm ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 24 min

    How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Conflict

    The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

    Unabridged

    18 hours 27 min

    Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and anticipate in the future—in order to navigate an ... Read more

    $27.99 USD $4.99 USD

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    Built from the Fire

    The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 10 min

    A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification“Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has been destroyed becomes comprehensible, even hopeful.” ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    By The Sword

    A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions

    by Richard Cohen ...
    Narrated by Richard Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 31 min

    Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess-his future wife-when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Hero of Two Worlds

    The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

    by Mike Duncan ...
    Narrated by Mike Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 20 min

    From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Sum of Our Dreams

    A Concise History of America

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. Evoking Barack Obama's belief that America remains the "sum of its dreams," Masur locates the origin of those dreams-of freedom, equality, and opportunity-and traces their progress chronologically, illuminating the nation's struggle over time to articulate and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Catalpa Rescue

    The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I)

    From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

    Narrated by Wayne Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 25 min

    To rescue the future, we must remember our past.With command and wit, William J. Bennett reacquaints Americans with their heritage in an engaging narrative that cuts through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism. Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and others reemerge not as marble icons or dust-dry names in a textbook, but as full-blooded, heroic pioneers whose far-reaching ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Broken Heart of America

    St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 46 min

    A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Mayday 1971

    A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

    Narrated by Kiff Vandenheuvel ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 41 min

    A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s WashingtonThey surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Crucible of Hell

    The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

    by Saul David ...
    Narrated by Saul David, William Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 46 min

    From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    A Brutal Reckoning

    Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

    by Peter Cozzens ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 45 min

    The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South—from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is WeepingThe Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Penguin History of New Zealand

    by Michael King ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 21 min

    This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed, the movements and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Bronze Lie

    Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy

    by Myke Cole ...
    Narrated by Alexander Cendese ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    The story of the Spartans is one of the best known in history, from their rigorous training to their dramatic feats of arms--but is that portrait of Spartan supremacy true? Renowned novelist and popular historian Myke Cole goes back to the original sources to set the record straight.The Spartan hoplite enjoys unquestioned currency as history's greatest fighting man. Raised from the age of seven in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    A National Crime

    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

    Narrated by Wesley French ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 40 min

    “I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Priscilla

    The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes. When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Hitler and Stalin

    The Tyrants and the Second World War

    by Laurence Rees ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 17 min

    An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Greeks

    A Global History

    Narrated by Anna Crowe ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 38 min

    A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to todayMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    American Rebels

    How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution

    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Screening Reality

    How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America

    by Jon Wilkman ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 33 min

    Amidst claims of a new "post-truth" era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more documentaries are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. For most of our history, Americans have depended on motion pictures to bring the realities of the world into view. And yet the richly complex, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD