History audiobooks

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1861

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Don't Know Much About the American Presidents

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall & K...

Length: 23 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than twenty years since his New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About® History first appeared, Davis has shown that Americans don’t hate history, just the dull version dished out in school.

Now Davis turns his attention to what is arguably the most important and most fascinating subject in American history: our presidents. From... Read more

The Black Count

By: Tom Reiss

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME

General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three... Read more

Just Plain Dick

By: Kevin Mattson

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous campaign speeches—Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, to be published on its sixtieth anniversaryIt all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization." But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to... Read more

A Peculiar People

By: J. Spencer Fluhman

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Though the Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what qualifies as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, has drawn thousands of converts but far more critics. In A Peculiar People, J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the... Read more

War on the Waters

By: James M. McPherson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval... Read more

Across God’s Frontiers

By: Anne M. Butler

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a... Read more

Operation Snow

By: John Koster

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and prompted the United States’ entry into the bloodiest war in human history. Americans have long debated the cause of the bombing; many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup or a failure of US intelligence agencies or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt... Read more

A Man and His Ship

By: Steven Ujifusa

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the S.S. United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time... Read more

Boss Rove

By: Craig Unger

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Rove, the man who masterminded the rise of George W. Bush from governor of Texas to the presidency, who advised Bush during two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who some claim helped seize the 2004 election for Bush, and who was at the center of the Bush administration's two biggest scandals—the Valerie Plame Wilson affair and the U.S.... Read more

The Rise of Rome

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth
and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world's
preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory
into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. He
chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the... Read more

Antietam

By: Wetware Media

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Battle of Antietam, (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg), was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. The battle was the culmination of Robert E. Lee's Maryland campaign in which Lee attempted to take the war to the North. The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil,... Read more

Hidden America

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”

Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects... Read more

Argo

By: Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there’s a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped.... Read more

Wikipedia Geschichte - Der Zweite Weltkrieg

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Zörr Tom

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Zweite Weltkrieg - Ein Wikipedia Hörbuch aus der Serie Geschichte. Weitere Informationen zu unseren Hörbüchern finden sie im Internet unter www.abod.de Der Zweite Weltkrieg war der zweite auf globaler Ebene geführte Krieg sämtlicher Großmächte des 20. Jahrhunderts und stellt den bislang größten und verheerendsten Konflikt in der... Read more

Who Stole the American Dream?

By: Hedrick Smith

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
 
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s... Read more

500 Days

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurt Eichenwald—New York Times bestselling author of Conspiracy of Fools and The Informant—recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, fly on the wall, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller.

In 500 Days, master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen... Read more

The Price of Politics

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

See how and why Washington is not functioning.

Bob Woodward’s freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his national bestseller, The Price of Politics, provides a detailed, often verbatim account of what happened in the dramatic “fiscal cliff” face-off at the end of 2012 between President Obama and the Republicans.

Now it’s happening again.... Read more

The Last Lost World

By: Stephen J. Pyne & Lydia V. Pyne

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time—and as a cultural idea

The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions—of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. It’s the world that... Read more

America's Great Debate

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states and... Read more

All the President's Men

By: Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

50th Anniversary Edition—With a new foreword on what Watergate means today.

“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.

The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters,... Read more

Freedom's Forge

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist... Read more

Night Comes to the Cumberlands

By: Harry M. Caudill

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

After its publication in 1962, Harry M. Caudill's acclaimed portrait of the southern Appalachian Mountains became a rallying cry for action against the poverty plaguing the region. Here Caudill explores the area's history, from its first settlement to the Civil War, and from the rise of coal barons to the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s.... Read more

No Easy Day

By: Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of... Read more