The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army runs 9.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Stephen Hoye (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 55% of the 3,272 Europe audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Stephen Hoye
Stephen Hoye narrates 144 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,715 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Europe shelf
393 Europe audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army is an audiobook by Stephan Talty: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephen Hoye, released June 2, 2009, on the Europe shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Stephen Hoye
- Released
- June 2, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Europe
- ISBN
- 9780739383506
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army as an audiobook?
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army?
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army is narrated by Stephen Hoye.