Audiobooks by Bob Howard

Set on the coast of South Carolina, an unknown infection has caused people to die and come back to life as reanimated corpses, attacking any living person. This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead. Beginning with the initial days of the apocalypse, Ed Jackson watches the world die from the safety of his shelter, but there are others who are also trying to stay alive as they seek refuge. He must decide who he will take into his shelter and who he will reject, and those decisions will help him to form the bonds he did not have even before the end of the world. He and his new friends are faced with the dangers of the dead world as they are forced to leave the safest shelter anyone could possibly have in order to do more than simply exist in a zombie infested world.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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Buried for Now

A zombie apocalypse was a ridiculous idea to people who were making plans to survive the end of the world. Everyone thought it would be a nuclear war, but when a virus destroyed civilization and contaminated the environment, survivors were left to forage for food and shelter. This is the continuing story of a handful of survivors who came together by chance and discovered a network of government funded shelters built to ensure the survival of politicians and important people. From the coast of South Carolina and the historic city of Charleston to New Orleans and the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, north to Columbus, Ohio and cities in between, civilization is in ruins. Shelters are discovered and inhabited, but survival now means fighting the evil that man can become, as well as the infected dead and the dangers of mutations in a runaway environment. The survivors fight to take back the world, but they find as long as there are living people, there will always be a fresh supply of the infected. The war may already be lost as mankind slowly vanishes.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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DE GAULLE: El orgullo de Francia.

En 1940 luchó contra, pero no pudo evitar, la mayor humillación de la historia de la Francia que tanto amaba. ¿Cómo se recuperó Charles De Gaulle de ésto? ¿Cómo preservó el espíritu de Francia? ¿Y luego, Cómo ayudó a liberar a su nación y liderarla como la figura política más importante desde Napoleón? Rastreamos el crecimiento de De Gaulle: el hijo precoz de nacionalistas, religiosos y progresistas. El amante de la historia que pronto empezó a sospechar de los británicos. El ambicioso joven oficial con opiniones revolucionarias sobre la guerra móvil en un país que primero se hundió en las trincheras del Frente Occidental y luego fue cegado por la locura de la Línea Maginot. Vemos su impresionante lucha contra los alemanes en 1940 cuando sus compañeros comandantes se avergonzaron. Cómo se negó a aceptar los viles compromisos del régimen de Vichy. Somos testigos de su difícil coexistencia con sus anfitriones británicos. Y su relación aún más tormentosa con sus aliados americanos. Vemos su triunfante regreso a Francia. La orgullosa personalidad de De Gaulle y su efecto en la curiosa y compleja fortuna de Francia en la posguerra son escrutados.

Bob Howard (Author), Carlos Urrutia (Narrator)

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Die for Now

No one can be totally prepared for a zombie apocalypse. No matter what preparations are made, some flaws can only be overcome by luck. When a group of well funded people decided years before to prepare for the end of civilization by building impenetrable shelters, they unknowingly left a legacy for a small band of survivors. Hordes of infected dead have swarmed across the world and destroyed civilization. Most of the world's population is dead, yet some people are determined to cling to life and are given a second chance when they learn the secrets of those shelters. On the coast of South Carolina and in the harbor of the beautiful city of Charleston, this small band of survivors is once more faced with the hard choices and risks they are forced to take. They can either hide in the safety of their impenetrable shelter on a small island, or they can fight back against the end of the world. Along the way they must hang onto their humanity while evolving to match the brutality of the new world. When they discover a massive shelter in Charleston that dwarfs their own shelter on Mud Island, they take one small step closer to giving the world back to the living. This is the continuing story of their fight against the infected dead and against the living who would try to take from them what they have.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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Exist for Now

From the barrier islands of South Carolina to the scenic shores of Lake Norman in North Carolina and a hospital ship sailing alone in the Atlantic Ocean, the infected dead have destroyed most of the population of the world. Small groups of people band together, some with leaders who take their people down the road toward death and some with leaders who make the decisions that keep their followers alive. This is the continuing story of the Mud Island survivors who have a plan to save a small part of humanity. As they live on in a shelter that is the dream of every survivalist, they find they must venture out into the world once again to help a lost friend, braving not only the infection, but radioactive fallout from a nuclear reactor, and the groups of survivors who are ready to take from them everything they have, including their lives.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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History's Verdict: De Gaulle

The Pride of France In 1940 he fought against, but could not prevent, the greatest humiliation in the history of the France he loved so dearly. How did Charles De Gaulle recover from this? How did he preserve the spirit of France? Then help liberate his nation? Then go on to lead it as its most important political figure since his fellow general, Napoleon? We trace the growth of De Gaulle: the precocious child of nationalist, religious yet progressive. The lover of history who early on became suspicious of the British. The ambitious young officer with revolutionary views about mobile warfare in a country first mired in the trenches of the Western Front then blinded by the folly of the Maginot Line. We watch his impressive fight against the Germans in 1940 when his fellow commanders were shaming themselves. How he refused to accept the vile compromises of the Vichy regime. We witness his difficult co-existence with his British hosts. And his even stormier relationship with his American allies. We see his triumphant return to France. De Gaulle’s proud personality and its effect on France’s curious and complex post-war fortunes are scrutinised. Audiovisual, ebook and, now, audiobook deliver History’s Verdict on De Gaulle.

Bob Howard (Author), Jonathan David Mellor (Narrator)

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History's Verdict: Rommel

The Desert Fox or unnecessary risk taker? Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary status as the German Field Marshall of World war Two? Mainly for his cunning in outwitting and outmanoeuvring his allied enemies he is now known as the desert fox. This is a truly remarkable achievement, given the hatred for Nazism in the wake of World War Two. But History’s Verdict asks if this is a deserving accolade? Ironically, often those who admired him most were his former enemies; while some of his strongest criticism came from fell German officers. Just what were his true strengths and achievements as well as his weaknesses? Was he the master tactician and perfect soldier, one of the only men willing to speak out against the evils of Nazism? Or was he an unnecessary risk taker, a glory hunter who had no grasp of overall military strategy? The relationship with Hitler is also examined in detail. What Nazi views, if any, did he share, and what was his role in the plot to the kill the Fuhrer? For Rommel the Jury is out and seventy years after his death, History is finally ready to offer its verdict.

Bob Howard (Author), Jonathan David Mellor (Narrator)

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History's Verdict: Wise verdicts on World War 2’s most powerful figures.

Since the early hours September first 1939, when the guns of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military base of Westerplatte in the former free city of Danzig (Gdansk) and triggered the Second World War, over seventy years have gone by. The outcome of the conflict - which claimed the lives of over 55 million people and involved most of the nations of the Earth – left the world divided into two armed camps: one, dominated by the USSR and its Communist bloc; the other, led by an America determined to halt the spread of Communism. We know this stand-off better as The Cold War. For an objective historical judgement on the greatest conflict the human race has ever experienced, it is vital to know the men who led it. Today, thanks to decades of work by countless historians and the innumerable files declassified by governments worldwide, we now have the opportunity to judge those leaders effectively and impartially. Some of these leaders were unsure whether they were fighting one war or several wars. Others were convinced the conflict was global. What is certain is that the Second World War was a Total War, which saw frequent political errors in the most political war of all time. Pacific Media have assembled a group of expert historians, researchers and analysts from King’s College, one of mainland Europe’s most prestigious educational institutions, to create the documentary series History’s Verdict. From an up-to-the-minute viewpoint, and packed with fresh historical discoveries, their scripts deliver fair and wise verdicts on World War 2’s most powerful figures. The series consists of 13 self-contained episodes each lasting 60 minutes: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Hirohito, Himmler, Montgomery, Patton, De Gaulle, MacArthur, Rommel, Eisenhower.

Bob Howard, Christopher Monaghan, Graham Birrell, Michael O'connor, Paul Macnally (Author), Jonathan David Mellor (Narrator)

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Infected Dead Series Boxed Set: Books 1-3

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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Infected Dead Series Boxed Set: Books 4-6

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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Returned for Now

Adam, Natalia, and Henry weren't just close friends. They were the last crew of the International Space Station. Forgotten by all but a few survivors, they helplessly watch as the world below them is consumed by the infected dead. As they circle the Earth from orbit they are forced to survive in space until a time when they no longer have a choice, but when they return, it's not to the same world they left behind. The world has had years to change. The infected dead roam the streets and the forests in search of living victims. No one knows how the virus started, but even less is known about how to stop it. All the survivors can do is try to outlive it. Cities have fallen before the hordes of infected, but a small band of survivors has fought back by locating and liberating a network of shelters built by the government during the Cold War. Their goal is to unite enough survivors to eventually turn the tide of death in the favor of the living.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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Revenge for Now

The zombie apocalypse has taken lives, but it has also taken away the freedom of the living to make choices for themselves. To stay alive, people are forced to follow corrupt leaders who would use the innocent to obtain power and material riches they would not have earned before the infected dead seized the world. Revenge for Now is Book 10 in the saga of the close-knit Mud Island family of survivors and their quest to do more than just survive. This is their story of personal struggle to aid all survivors while dispensing justice upon those people who have capitalized by the apocalypse. Upon their return from England, they have unfinished business with the corrupt force that attacked and killed US Army soldiers near Atlanta. Along the way they make startling discoveries that will ensure that more people will survive. The Chief has a burning, personal desire to seek revenge against the leader of those forces, and he won't be able to rest until he rids the world of their evil. Somehow he must achieve that revenge while maintaining the capacity to be the same man he was before the apocalypse.

Bob Howard (Author), Graham Halstead (Narrator)

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