The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World runs 14.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ben Macintyre (about 9.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 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 14.5 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre narrates 16 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 213 hours in all.
- The Spy and the Traitor: An incredible espionage and spy thriller and the greatest true story of the Cold War
- Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- SAS: Rogue Heroes: The authorized wartime history from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
About as long, on the World shelf
767 World 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
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World is an audiobook by Ben Macintyre: a 14.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Ben Macintyre, released September 10, 2024, on the World and Military (Biography & Memoir) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ben Macintyre
- Released
- September 10, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Military (Biography & Memoir)
- ISBN
- 9780593913673
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World as an audiobook?
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World runs 14.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.6 hours.
Is The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World?
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World is narrated by Ben Macintyre.
Is The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.6 hours, saving 4.8 hours.