History audiobooks

First Principles & Natural Law Part II

By: Hadley Arkes

Narrated by: Hadley Arkes

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Part II of First Principles and Natural Law, Professor Hadley Arkes delves further into the classic connection between morality and law. Indeed, this link between the basis of law and the principles that form the groundwork of moral judgment is very much at play in today's world, as evidenced in everything from Supreme Court decisions to... Read more

Purpose and Persuasion

By: Ken Masugi

Narrated by: Ken Masugi

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this series of lectures, Professor Ken Masugi of Johns Hopkins University examines the importance of rhetoric in American politics. Political speeches have, since the nation's inception, defined and shaped American politics. Professor Masugi demonstrates how the greatest American political speeches take their bearings from the Declaration of... Read more

A Less Boring History of the World

By: Dave Rear

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Refreshes the parts other history books can’t reach...
A bit ropy on the Renaissance?
In the dark about the Enlightenment?
Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth – from 15 billion years BC... Read more

Celebrating The Royal Albert Hall

By: Charles Hazlewood

Narrated by: Charles Hazlewood

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Royal Albert Hall has attracted some of the biggest names in showbiz throughout its 140-year history. From rock events to The Proms, Cirque du Soleil to the Chelsea Arts Ball, it has played host to an huge variety of performers. In these two programmes, Charles Hazlewood introduces a montage of artists who have graced the stage of the Hall,... Read more

Viper Pilot

By: Dan Hampton

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Viper Pilot is fantastic….A great read!”
—Dale Brown, former USAF Captain and New York Times bestselling author of A Time for PatriotsAction-packed and breathtakingly authentic, Viper Pilot is the electrifying memoir of one of the most decorated F-16 pilots in American history: U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dan Hampton, who served for twenty... Read more

Killing Kennedy

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.

The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK.

More than a million people have enjoyed Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the... Read more

The Man Who Saved the Union

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 27 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and... Read more

American Patriots

By: Rick Santorum

Narrated by: Daniel Butler

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time to answer the call.  The United States of America was founded by ordinary citizens who willingly sacrificed their lives and fortunes in order to hand down the precious legacy of freedom we enjoy today. In American Patriots, Rick Santorum shares the true-life accounts of 25 unsung heroic men and women from the Revolutionary War era.... Read more

The Book of Job

By: Harold S. Kushner

Narrated by: Harold S. Kushner

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world.
 
The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing everything, Job—though... Read more

Romans In Britain

By: Guy de la Bédoyère

Narrated by: Guy de la Bédoyère

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A guided tour of Roman Britain with historian Guy de la Bédoyère, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In 55 BC, Julius Caesar invaded Britain, which was then on the edge of the known world. But he was unable to conquer it. Where Caesar failed the Emperor Claudius, in AD 43, succeeded and the mighty Roman Empire came to stretch from Cairo to Carlisle. The... Read more

Miraculous

By: Kevin Belmonte

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“For thousands of years, the hope of heaven has called to people through miracles. When we stop to consider their stories, God’s voice calls to us as well.”In our age of constant innovation, technological achievement, and the sad tendency to see ourselves as the captains of our fate, we may be tempted to make little time for miracles, or give... Read more

An Honest President

By: H. Paul Jeffers

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered blatant raids on the Treasury, and... Read more

Tom Thumb

By: George Sullivan

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed fifteen pounds—the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley's family to allow him to exhibit... Read more

One Shot at Forever

By: Chris Ballard

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of three hundred and seventy teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to... Read more

A History of the World

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: Andrew Marr & David Timson

Length: 26 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the... Read more

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure

By: John Allison

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? The answer is no.Not only is free market capitalism good for the economy, says industry expert John Allison, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation's... Read more

The Queen's Promise

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Lyn Andrews comes a compelling historical epic set at the endlessly fascinating Tudor court about the most infamous woman of the age - Anne Boleyn - and the man who loved her before she became queen.

From the moment Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland, glimpses the beautiful Anne Boleyn he is captivated and quickly... Read more

Ike's Bluff

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and... Read more

The Endgame

By: Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 32 hours

Abridged: No

Eagerly anticipated in the wake of their national best seller Cobra II (“The superb, must-read military history of the invasion of Iraq”—Thomas L. Friedman), The Endgame is Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor’s most ambitious and news-breaking book to date. A peerless work of investigative journalism and historical recreation... Read more

Into the Fire

By: Dakota Meyer & Bing West

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony

In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe... Read more

My American Revolution

By: Robert Sullivan

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and - toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost 'mountains,' and eventually some physical therapy - he evacuates... Read more

Savage Continent

By: Keith Lowe

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...

The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These... Read more

Controversies and Commanders

By: Stephen W. Sears

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout the devastating years of the Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac seldom marched in step. In this provocative book, acclaimed historian and award-winning author Stephen W. Sears takes a fascinating look at some of the intriguing Union generals and the controversies that swirled around them. Delving into historical documents and... Read more

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life is surely the most approachable and enjoyable of all his works. By turning the spotlight of his ideas about the nature and function of the unconscious mind onto simple and easily understandable incidents that we have all experienced, such as slips of the tongue, sudden inexplicable clumsy actions,... Read more