History Audio Books

Peter FitzSimons
Tobruk (Unabridged)

In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks....

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Truman Announces Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima: The World War II in the Pacific Series (Unabridged)

In this edition, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica examine Truman's announcement of the bombing of Hiroshima.....

Alfred S. Regnery
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (Unabridged)

Veteran conservative publisher Alfred Regnery writes an insider's account of the American conservative movement over the past fifty years....

American RadioWorks
Vietnam and the Presidency

More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans are still grappling with questions of why it was fought, and how it was lost....

Michael Hardwick
W1 The Sinking of the Lusitania (Dramatised)

It was one of the most horrifying single acts of destruction in the First World War, and it was instrumental in bringing America into the war....

John Burke
W2 The Hindenburg Disaster (Dramatised)

How a German airship, pride of the Third Reich, equipped as a flying five-star hotel, burst into flames before landing in New Jersey and was destroyed in less than a minute....

Kenneth Allen
W3 The Battle of Midway (Dramatised)

The Japanese advance in the Pacific was stemmed and turned in the Midway Sea. It was one of the decisive actions of the Second World War....

Kenneth Allen
W4 The Battle of Jutland (Dramatised)

The most controversial naval battle of the 20th Century. Statistically, both sides lost....

Anthony Burton
W6 The Battle of Britain (Dramatised)

France had fallen. All Britain waited for the inevitable German invasion....

Peniel E. Joseph
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (Unabridged)

An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality....