The Vikings: A New History: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Vikings: A New History runs 12 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James A. Gillies (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 12 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 3,272 Europe audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by James A. Gillies
James A. Gillies narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 77 hours in all.
- The Painter's Daughter
- Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941-45
- The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
- Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
- Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son
About as long, on the Europe shelf
405 Europe audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
- Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
- Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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 Vikings: A New History is an audiobook by Neil Oliver: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by James A. Gillies, released November 28, 2017, on the Europe shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12 hrs
- Narrated by
- James A. Gillies
- Released
- November 28, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Europe
- ISBN
- 9781541487550
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Vikings: A New History as an audiobook?
The Vikings: A New History runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is The Vikings: A New History free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Vikings: A New History?
The Vikings: A New History is narrated by James A. Gillies.
Is The Vikings: A New History worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.