History audiobooks

History Speaks - Volume 4

By: James J. Corbett, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russ...

Narrated by: James J. Corbett, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russ...

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Along with historical narrative, hear rare recordings of some of the most people in history, including James J. Corbett, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russell, Emperor Franz Joseph, Gen. John J. Pershing, Edward H. Sothern, Rudolph Valentino, President Coolidge with Charles Lindbergh, Billy Sunday, and Rudyard Kipling. Recording obtained and... Read more

Voices of Famous Polar Explorers

By: Frederick Albert Cook, Robert Edwin Peary Sr. &...

Narrated by: Frederick Albert Cook, Robert Edwin Peary Sr. &...

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his claims of achieving the first summit of Mount McKinley in September 1906, and having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, which would have been a year before Robert Peary. Both claims have been largely discredited. Later, Dr. Cook... Read more

Courage to Stand

By: Tim Pawlenty

Narrated by: Todd Busteed

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012—even before he landed on John McCain’s short list of potential running mates in 2008—Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles. In his hard-left-leaning home state of Minnesota, the man known as “T-Paw” somehow erased a... Read more

Voices of Olympic Track Greats

By: Jesse Owens, Josy Barthel & Roger Bannister

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hear the voices of Olympic track greats, including Jesse Owens, winner of 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; Josy Barthel, a Luxembourgish runner who won the men's 1500 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics; and Roger Bannister, an English athlete best known for breaking the 4-minute mile. Read more

No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story

By: Amy Waters Yarsinske

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead.

On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in... Read more

A Rare Recording of Charles Lindbergh

By: Charles Lindbergh

Narrated by: Charles Lindbergh

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles, in the... Read more

Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal From Organized Crime

By: Peter Maas, Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley,...

Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan & Gary Telles

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mafia. La Cosa Nostra. The underground, and often not-so-underground, organization and syndicate of criminal activity that has been a part of American history for the past century. Forget television and movies, hear the true stories of the inner workings of his chaotic, violent, and surprisingly human world, a world of respect, tradition,... Read more

3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It - Abridged

By: Sean Flynn

Narrated by: Christopher Walker

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar.Firefighters love the excitement of a "triple." But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flashovers, backdrafts, this one had it all. Once inside, they found... Read more

No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story - Abridged

By: Amy Waters Yarsinske

Narrated by: Gary Telles

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead.On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in... Read more

Hitler's Scientists - Abridged

By: John Cornwell

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

By the first decade of the twentieth century, Germany was the Mecca of science and technology in the world. However, by the beginning of the First World War, Germany began to display some of the features that would blight the conduct of ideal science through the rest of the century.

After Hitler came into power in 1933, science and technology... Read more

No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan - Abridged

By: Ben F. Schemmer & John T. Carney Jr.

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous... Read more

50 Battles That Changed the World - Abridged

By: William Weir

Narrated by: Rick Turner

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military... Read more

The Story of Titanic

By: David Moore

Narrated by: David Moore

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With the voices of the survivors this is a condensed account of the first and final voyage of RMS Titanic Read more

The Closing of the American Mind

By: Allan Bloom

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

More than just a huge #1 bestseller, this is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and political crisis of twentieth century America is really an intellectual crisis. From the... Read more

Citizen Soldiers

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 21 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen... Read more

Path Between the Seas

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 31 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the... Read more

The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was to become law only if ratified by nine of the thirteen states then comprising the United States. The eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution collected here have become recognized as the most important political science work ever written in the... Read more

Mornings on Horseback

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.

Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore... Read more

Plato's Laches

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Laches, a general in the Athenian army, saw Socrates fight bravely in the battle of Delium. When he and Nicias, another general, are asked to explain the idea of courage, they are at a loss and words fail them. How does courage differ from thoughtless and reckless audacity? Can a lion be said to be courageous? What about small children who have... Read more

De la vie heureuse de Sénèque - Abridged

By: Sénèque

Narrated by: Karine Adrover

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

" De la vie heureuse " est un traité de sagesse, intemporel et universel. Il a été écrit par Sénèque comme un dialogue avec un interlocuteur imaginaire, vers 58 après Jésus Christ. Son principal objet est de montrer que le bonheur n'est pas matériel, mais naît d'une vie en accord avec la vertu et la raison (selon les préceptes du stoïcisme).... Read more

De la patience de St Augustin - Abridged

By: Saint Augustin

Narrated by: Fabienne Prost

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Saint Augustin dans 'Les confessions' décrit sa conversion au christianisme avec une sincérité qui vaut plus que beaucoup de biographies. Le jeune Augustin est attiré par la philosophie, et se rapproche des mouvements manichéens, avant de se tourner vers le néo-platonisme, mais c'est sous l'influence de la pensée de saint Ambroise qu'il décide... Read more

Manifeste du Parti Communiste - Abridged

By: Marx et Engels

Narrated by: Gérard Philipe

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Le Manifeste du Parti communiste est un essai politico-philosophique rédigé par le philosophe allemand Karl Marx en 1848 avec la participation de son ami Friedrich Engels. Le Manifeste du Parti Communiste peut être vu comme un résumé de la pensée marxiste. Read more

Two Years Before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840.



While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles that affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow... Read more

The War to End All Wars

By: Edward M. Coffman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward M. Coffman’s stunning work of military history, The War to End All Wars, offers a fresh and interesting perspective on the Great War, focusing solely on the United States as a major player in the struggle. Coffman pays special attention to the American soldier and his experiences throughout the conflict, making this a brilliant social... Read more