The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Written and Narrated By: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
I Am. GUTTED…
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson / Narrated By: Richard Davidson
Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
A tragic tale of hubris… engaging once you get past the stuff that makes you doze off…
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean / Narrated By: Sean Runnette
Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
SUCH True Science, I mean, like, reeeeally! has me Wanting ‘bout, ooooh I dunno, TWELVE of My Hours Back…?!
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton
Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
ZOUNDS!!!!!!
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson / Narrated By: George Newbern
Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
Oh how I do so love Steven Johnson! This one neither disappoints, nor does it go off on a meandering tangent in the end. Rather, it’s one looooong meandering and delightful tangent!!!
An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly / Narrated By: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
Yeh, yeh, yeh: It sometimes gets a bit repetitive, but Oh. My. GOD!!! One of the best books on the Plague out there
History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
By: Jennifer Wright / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
Maybe not very Academic, but WILDLY entertaining… Plus, the cover has the Creepy Beak-Doctor from my nightmares…!
How Microbes Shaped Our History
By: Dorothy H. Crawford / Narrated By: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Taken in by the cover; bored to death by the text
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
By: Ken Wells / Narrated By: Chris Andrews
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Not quite what I thought it was gonna be…
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris / Narrated By: Ralph Lister
Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
Superb narration takes us on a downright dirty jaunt into Victorian medicine
A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy / Narrated By: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Can Rabies be a lot of fun?!? Why, yes! It can! HUZZAH!
The True Story of Santa Claus and His Christmas Mission
By: Robert Sullivan / Narrated By: John Ritter
Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
Very entertaining once past the beginning and through some audio glitches…
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