History Audio Books

Joseph E. Persico
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I....

Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: Dunkirk and the Threat of Invasion

On the day that Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, Germany invaded Holland and Belgium....

Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: The Battle for Britain

As Hitler proceeded with his invasion plans, code-named Operation Sealion, he knew that the RAF must not be allowed to threaten the invading forces as they crossed the Channel....

Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: The Blitz

From July to September 1940, the British people watched the Battle of Britain play out in the skies above them, aware that the eventual outcome would decide their fate....

Terry Gross
Fresh Air: Mideast Crisis

Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis...

Judge Dee
Froissart's Chronicles: Selections from The Great Wars of England and France

The first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, Jean Froissart chronicled events during...

Andrew Carroll
Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War (Unabridged)

Grace Under Fire is an extraordinary, moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revolution through the fighting in Iraq....

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Halsey's Typhoon (Unabridged)

December 1944. General MacArthur has vowed to return to the Philippines with the help of the Pacific Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, the ships are blindsided by a typhoon....

Terry Brighton
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade

On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history....

John Cornwell
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades....