History audiobooks

Moscow, December 25,1991

By: Conor O'Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to... Read more

No Buddy Left Behind

By: Terri Crisp

Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes bonus photographs!The love of a dog or cat helps heal soldiers’ emotional trauma. One very special woman and program reunites them after the war.“I have sacrificed a lot to serve my country. All that I ask is to be allowed to bring home the incredible dog that wandered into my life here in Iraq and prevented me from becoming terribly... Read more

Grey Wolf

By: Gerrard Williams & Simon Dunstan

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

DID HITLER--CODE NAME “GREY WOLF”--REALLY DIE IN 1945?

GRIPPING NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED…
When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin... Read more

Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism

By: Kevin Bauder, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., John G. St...

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Understand the history, core values, and divisions as they've developed within the Evangelical Christian movement.Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism compares and contrasts four distinct positions on the current fundamentalist-evangelical spectrum. Each contributor offers their case for one of four primary views: Fundamentalism –... Read more

Eisenhower

By: Jim Newton

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader.”
—Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University; U.S. Senator (1997–2009)

Newly discovered and declassified documents... Read more

Columbus

By: Laurence Bergreen

Narrated by: Tim Jerome

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 15 hoursRead by TBDA mesmerizing, new account of the great explorer from the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Marco Polo. Read more

Vivos bajo tierra

By: Manuel Pino Toro

Narrated by: Pietro Gonzalez

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia que cautivo a millones de personas en todo el mundo, quienes fueron testigos de como fueron saliendo cada uno de los 33 mineros de las entranas de la tierra. A 800 kilometros al norte de Santiago, en pleno desierto de Atacama, pasado el mediodia del 5 de agosto de 2010, el tiempo se detuvo. Una roca gigante bloqueo el acceso... Read more

About Time

By: Adam Frank

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.

In About... Read more

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 23 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do.The Origin of Species was... Read more

Just My Type

By: Simon Garfield

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do they come from, and why do we need so many? Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to... Read more

A Decade of Hope

By: Dennis Smith & Deirdre Smith

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Stephen Hoye

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an occasion that is sure to be observed around the world. But among the memorials, political speeches, and news editorials, the most pressing consideration—and often the most overlooked—is the lives and well-being of the 9/11 first responders, their... Read more

A History of the Twentieth Century

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 29 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of... Read more

21st Century Dodos

By: Steve Stack

Narrated by: Steve Stack

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction. We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects. Until now, that is. Steve Stack has... Read more

Across Many Mountains

By: Yangzom Brauen

Narrated by: Yangzom Brauen

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom

Kunsang thought she would never leave... Read more

Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style

By: Brad Klinge

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Brad and Barry Klinge have been investigating paranormal occurrences for the last twenty years, and in Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style, they divulge some of their most exciting ghost encounters and analyze the science behind their paranormal hunts. Each chapter of this fascinating book focuses on the Klinge brothers' investigations into the... Read more

A More Perfect Heaven

By: Dava Sobel

Narrated by: Michael Sullivan, Suzanne Toren, Alma Cuervo, J...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

With the enthralling style that made Longitude and Galileo's Daughter international best-sellers, Dava Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protege, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and... Read more

Killing Lincoln

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly

The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of... Read more

Walking With The Wounded

By: Mark McCrum

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Martyn Ellis, Rupert Degas & Sa...

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2011, four soldiers - each a hero of recent conflicts who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on a challenge that even an able-bodied athlete would balk at. A two-hundred mile trek, unsupported, to the North Pole.

It was the culmination of a journey that began long before, when two friends decided to mount an... Read more

The Swerve

By: Stephen Greenblatt

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt's works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. "More wonderfully... Read more

How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)

By: David Goldman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Past and present civilizations fail for many reasons, but the number one predictor of a civilization’s survival is its sense of religion—or lack thereof. So argues First Things columnist David Goldman in How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too). The strength of a civilization’s religion affects its purpose, its fertility rate, and... Read more

The Rogue

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Just in time for the kickoff of the 2012 presidential campaign, Joe McGinniss, the author of the classic account of the packaging of a presidential candidate, The Selling of the President, of the acclaimed search for the essence of Alaska, Going to Extremes, and of the bestselling study of the dark family secrets of an American patriarch, Fatal... Read more

The End

By: Ian Kershaw

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to... Read more

Death in the City of Light

By: David King

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.

As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters,... Read more

Confidence Men

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it.Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly... Read more