History

The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe

by Gerd-Rainer Horn; read by Michael Page

The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles & Rebellions, 1943–1948 reconstructs the parameters of the contest over the shape of postwar Western Europe from a transnational perspective. Learn More

Moctu and the Mammoth People

by Neil Bockoven; read by Timothy Andres Pabon

Moctu and the Mammoth People is a compelling, well-researched story of a strong, young, dark-skinned Cro-Magnon boy who must fight his rival for leadership of his tribe and the right to mate the beautiful Nuri. Learn More

Mistress of Life and Death

by Susan J. Eischeid; read by Elisabeth Lagelee

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. Learn More

Mission, Race, and Empire

by Jennifer C. Snow; read by Ann Marie Lee

A new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race. Learn More

Mission at Nuremberg

by Tim Townsend; read by James Anderson Foster

Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg. Learn More

Misinformation Nation

by Jordan E. Taylor; read by Christopher P. Brown

"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. Learn More

Midnight in Siberia

David Greene; read by the author

NPR host David Greene travels along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, capturing an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin. Learn More

The Middle Way

by Derek Chollet; read by Christopher Grove

A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Learn More

The Middle Ages

by Morris Bishop; read by Michael Page

With exceptional grace and wit, Morris Bishop vividly reconstructs this distinctive era of European history in a work that will inform and delight scholars and general readers alike. Learn More

MI5

by Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta; read by Michael Page

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. Learn More

The Metaphysical Club

Louis Menand; read by Henry Leyva

This organization consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months. Yet its impact upon American intellectual life remains incalculable. Learn More

The Menendez Murders

by Robert Rand; read by Eric martin

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. Learn More

Menace of Our Time

by Aaron J. Leonard; read by Danny Campbell

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available October

Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism’s collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domestic communism. This book tracks those efforts; from the state laws of the twenties that imprisoned the fledgling communist leadership, the efforts by police and local authorities against communists as they fought for unions, racial equality, and the unemployed, the trials and imprisonment of communist leaders mid-century, the extra-legal efforts of the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the sixties, and the ongoing, relentless attention by the FBI afterward. Learn More

Meet the Kellys

by Chris Enss; read by Wendy Tremont King

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Gangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys—the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne—who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in American crime. Learn More