History audiobooks

Turing's Cathedral

By: George Dyson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first... Read more

The Mark Inside

By: Amy Reading

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks did—he went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling.  
 
Only after he lost that second fortune did he reclaim control of his story. Instead of crawling back home in shame, he... Read more

Voyagers of the Titanic

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and... Read more

Revelations

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Elaine Pagels explores the surprising history of the most controversial book of the Bible.
In the waning days of the Roman Empire, militant Jews in Jerusalem had waged an
all-out war against Rome’s occupation of Judea, and their defeat resulted in the desecration
of the Great Temple in Jerusalem. In the aftermath of that war, John of Patmos, a... Read more

Titanic, The Voices From The BBC Archive

By: Mark Jones

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton en route for New York on her maiden voyage with 2228 passengers and crew on board. On the 14th April at twenty minutes before midnight, sailing at almost full speed, she struck an iceberg and sank in just two and a half hours. Over 1500 lives were lost. This is the story of a great tragedy described by... Read more

All The King's Men

By: Saul David

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All The King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett.

"The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most... Read more

Outlaw Platoon

By: Sean Parnell & John Bruning

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh,... Read more

The Jesus Discovery

By: James D. Tabor & Simcha Jacobovici

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Jesus Discovery shows how a recent major archeological discovery in Jerusalem is revolutionizing our understanding of Jesus and the earliest years of Christianity.

The Jesus Discovery is the story of a stunning new discovery that provides the first physical evidence of Christians in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus and his apostles.

In... Read more

James Madison and the Making of America

By: Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin
Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen—as
"The Father of the Constitution"—to find a more complex and sometimes
contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways
in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States.  Instead of
an... Read more

Clarence Darrow

By: John A. Farrell

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being:
on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.
 

Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the
tumultuous... Read more

Band of Brothers

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Tim Jerome

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.

They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942,... Read more

The Rehnquist Choice

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Michael Rafkin

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the only person who could have revealed this information—John W. Dean.

In 1971, William Rehnquist seemed the perfect choice to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court. He was a young, well-polished lawyer who shared many of President Richard Nixon's... Read more

Faith and Other Flat Tires

By: Andrea Palpant Dilley

Narrated by: Andrea Palpant Dilley

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred.In this deeply... Read more

The Longest Day

By: Cornelius Ryan

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic account of the Allied invasion of NormandyThe Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of... Read more

Black Hawk Down

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down... Read more

King Peggy

By: Peggielene Bartels & Eleanor Herman

Narrated by: J. Karen Thomas

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the hopeful sense of possibility of Half the Sky.
 
King Peggy chronicles the astonishing... Read more

The History of Early Flight

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the Wright Brothers as the tell their story about flight Read more

The Story of Abraham Lincoln (Special Edition)

By: Smith Show Media Productions

Narrated by: Billy Brown

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents the special edition of The Story of Abraham Lincoln. Read more

New Discoveries At Jamestown

By: John L. Cotter & J. Paul Hudson

Narrated by: Jason Smith

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An overview of the systematic evacuation of the town site in order to bring to light the information and objects buried there, particularly as it relates to daily life in Jamestown in the 17th century. Read more

William the Conqueror (Special Edition)

By: Jacob Abbott

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents William the Conqueror written by Jacob Abbott. Learn the way he lived and stories from his life. Read more

The Emergency State

By: David C. Unger

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Emergency State, leading global affairs commentator David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America's obsessive pursuit of absolute national security. In the decades since World War II, presidents from both parties have assumed broad war-making powers never intended by the Constitution and intervened abroad to preserve our credibility... Read more

By the Hand of Providence

By: Rod Gragg

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the Founding Fathers, from the crafting of the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the peace treaty with Britain, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview motivated the Founding Fathers, influenced national independence, inspired... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents

By: Steven F. Hayward

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a president great?Academics, journalists, and popular historians agree: our greatest presidents are the ones who confronted a national crisis and mobilized the entire nation to face it. That's the conventional wisdom. The chief executives who are celebrated in textbooks and placed in the top echelon of presidents in surveys of... Read more

Enterprise

By: Barrett Tillman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict.Award-winning author Barrett Tillman has been called “the man who owns... Read more