End of the Beginning: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Days of Infamy series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the End of the Beginning audiobook runs 18.5 hours unabridged, narrated by John Allen Nelson (about 12.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 18.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 37 days |
| 1 hour / day | 19 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 18.5 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Days of Infamy
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 20 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 38.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Days of Infamy | 20 hrs |
| 2 | End of the Beginning | 18.5 hrs |
More narrated by John Allen Nelson
John Allen Nelson narrates 28 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 280 hours in all.
- Days of Infamy
- Arrival of the Gods: Revealing the Alien Landing Sites of Nazca
- Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America
- Women Destroy Science Fiction!: Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories
- Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
625 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
End of the Beginning is book 2 of Harry Turtledove's Days of Infamy series: a 18.5-hour unabridged recording, read by John Allen Nelson, released May 31, 2010, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 18.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Allen Nelson
- Released
- May 31, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
- Series
- Days of Infamy #2
- ISBN
- 9781400183937
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the End of the Beginning audiobook?
End of the Beginning runs 18.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.3 hours.
Is the End of the Beginning audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates End of the Beginning?
End of the Beginning is narrated by John Allen Nelson.
Is End of the Beginning worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.3 hours, saving 6.2 hours.