History audiobooks

Meet Pablo Picasso

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Picasso famously said, "Everything you can imagine is real." Meet, and be inspired by, Pablo Picasso; world-famous artist and pioneer of the Cubist movement, as he tells his own amazing story.BioViews® are short biographical narratives, similar to interviews. These inspirational stories from The Amazing People Club® provide a new way of learning... Read more

Attack on Pearl Harbor

By: Shelley Tanaka

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a massive surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Two brief and terrible hours later, much of the American fleet lay sunk or burning; 2,388 Americans were dead; and the United States and Japan were at war. Dozens of children witnessed this pivotal... Read more

Amazing People of France - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique, inspirational story collection from The Amazing People Club®, meet some of the amazing French people who have made major contributions to a great nation.

Meet the unforgettable Louis XVI, who had the vision for one of France's most visited sites - the Palace of Versailles. Discover his personal challenges and relationships, and... Read more

The Right Fights Back: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

By: Mike Allen & Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The first edition, The Right Fights Back, follows the campaign for the Republican presidential... Read more

The Face of Battle

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it—his fears, his wounds and their... Read more

Inside SEAL Team Six

By: Don Mann

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors

When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make up the... Read more

A Life Wild and Perilous

By: Robert M. Utley

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you. Not only a groundbreaking work of American history by critically acclaimed author Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous is also a dramatic story of innovation and survival. Here is your chance to... Read more

A Venetian Affair

By: Andrea Di Robilant

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions... Read more

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

By: Anthony Loyd

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

With elegance and unsparing honesty, special correspondent for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd records this harrowing account of modern war. My War Gone By, I Miss It So exposes the unspeakable terror, visceral thrill of combat, and countless lives laid waste in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Unsatisfied by a brief stint in... Read more

Being George Washington

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, offers a unique spin on the life and legacy of founding father George Washington.

IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, THINK AGAIN.

This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever.

His... Read more

Masters of the Air

By: Donald L. Miller

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 25 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller.Masters of the Air is the deeply personal... Read more

Las estrellas Orientales

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: David Crommett

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Al final de la temporada de 2010, mas de ochenta y seis jovenes y hombres de la empobrocida ciudad de San Pedro de Macoris jugaban en las Grandes Ligas-lo que significa que uno de cada seis dominicanos de las Grandes Ligas vinieron de los mismos equipos locales de los ingenios azucareros, y acudieron en masa a los Estados Unidos en busca de... Read more

Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army

By: William G. Stevenson

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

William G. Stevenson was a Kentuckian, loyal to the Union, who endured 13 months of enforced service in the Confederate army. Read more

Lions of the West

By: Robert Morgan

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 18 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the continent from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny... Read more

Under the Black Flag

By: David Cordingly

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth... Read more

Waiting for the Weekend

By: Witold Rybczynski

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“We work,” Aristotle wrote, “in order to have leisure.” Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of—the freedom to do nothing—the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work—taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days—we couldn’t survive without... Read more

SEAL Target Geronimo

By: Chuck Pfarrer

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The controversial New York Times bestseller that tells the "engrossing account of the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the situation room of the White House: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken... Read more

Galileo

By: James Reston

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For the last four hundred years, Galileo has fascinated and inspired writers, theologians, playwrights, historians, and scientists. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., presents a lively, dramatic portrait of... Read more

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

By: Robert K. Massie

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 23 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs

“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood... Read more

Witness to Appomattox

By: Richard Wheeler

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted Civil War historian Richard Wheeler brings this narrative to life with haunting images of the final days of the Civil War: President Lincoln walking through the streets of Richmond, drawing an admiring crowd of blacks; Confederate and Union troops gathering in the fields around Appomattox Court House, mingling with former foes,... Read more

Wizard

By: Marc J. Seifer

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 22 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology.... Read more

Keynes Hayek

By: Nicholas Wapshott

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics... Read more

George Washington

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Johnson’s History of the American People has been this always stimulating author’s most widely read book to date. Now Johnson gives us his concise portrait of the great founding American, George Washington, in a brilliant, sharply etched portrait that is full of surprising insights. Washington is seen as one of the most important authors of... Read more

Barbarians!

By: Steven Kroll

Narrated by: Andrew Watts

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient Romans used the word barbarian to describe people who were coarse, rude, or even just foreign. Over time the word has also come to connote bloodthirsty cruelty. But were the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols as barbaric as we?ve been led to believe? In dynamic, detailed spreads that young readers will pore over,... Read more