The Longest Military History Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 201 unabridged Military (History) audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Military (History) shelf sits under History on the store.

#	Title	Author	Length
1	1942: Crux of War	Jonathan Parshall	60.2 hrs
2	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany	William L. Shirer	57.2 hrs
3	Churchill: Walking with Destiny	Andrew Roberts	50.5 hrs
4	The Arms of Krupp: 1587–1968	William Manchester	48.4 hrs
5	The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940	William L. Shirer	48.3 hrs
6	The Second World War: A Complete History	Martin Gilbert	43.1 hrs
7	The Russian Revolution	Richard Pipes	41.8 hrs
8	The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945	John Toland	41.2 hrs
9	Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea	Robert K. Massie	40.5 hrs
10	No Ordinary Time	Doris Kearns Goodwin	39.8 hrs
11	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era	James Macpherson	39.7 hrs
12	Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War	Jorn Leonhard	39.6 hrs
13	Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History	Alexander Werth	38.5 hrs
14	The Secret World: A History of Intelligence	Christopher Andrew	37.8 hrs
15	The Second World War	Antony Beevor	37.4 hrs
16	Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	37.3 hrs
17	Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945	Ian W. Toll	36.8 hrs
18	Killing Hitler’s Reich: The Battle for Austria 1945	William Alan Webb	36.2 hrs
19	The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815	Tim Blanning	35.3 hrs
20	Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center	Ray Monk	35.3 hrs
21	The Napoleonic Wars	Alexander Mikaberidze	35.2 hrs
22	The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred	Niall Ferguson	34.5 hrs
23	Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941	Robert C. Tucker	34.1 hrs
24	Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975	Max Hastings	33.9 hrs
25	Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975	Max Hastings	33.6 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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