Las mejores escuchas de Audible Plus

World War II is the defining conflict of the 20th century, one that created a line in the sands of history dividing the pre-war and post-war eras. In this epoch-defining conflict lies another definitive moment: the invasion of a 50-mile stretch of coast in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.

It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

Stories of "The American West" often rely on tired tropes of tough cowboys, but real history is much less straight and narrow and way more interesting.

They were called Easy Company, but their mission was never easy....

As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story....

Thomas Paine published Common Sense In 1776, a time when America was a hotbed of revolution. The pamphlet, which called for America's political freedom....

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs....

Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20h century....

Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history....

The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three....

Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They d...

The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war....

Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts....

Flappers, ‘It’ girls, confidence tricksters, drug dealers, spies, jazz musicians....

Step back to Christianity's first three centuries to see how it transitioned from the religion of Jesus to a religion about Jesus....

A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia....