History Audio Books

Philip Gourevitch
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Unabridged)

In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority....

Encyclopaedia Britannica
World War II in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (Unabridged)

World War II in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki tells the story of Iwo Jima and the long war in the Pacific....

Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

ZOOM takes listeners inside the race to build the car of the future, as pioneers around the world tackle the challenge of creating cars that will run on cleaner energy sources....

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers; reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World....

Patrick Bishop
3 Para

In April 2006, the elite 3 Para battlegroup was despatched to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan....

Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Unabridged)

The definitive chronicle of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq....

Bob Drogin
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War

Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war....

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Unabridged)

In this unprecedented account, The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone....

Anthony D. Romero and Dina Temple-Raston
In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror (Unabridged)

Against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, listeners are taken behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America....

Nathaniel Price
Middle East Conflict (Unabridged)

Middle East Conflict tackles the big questions in a pithy pocket guide. In under 110 minutes, you can sound knowledgeable when others don't....