History audiobooks

The Environmental Movement

By: Liz Sonneborn

Narrated by: Christopher Prince

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Environmental Movement is an informative introduction to this significant social movement, which arose in the United States in the late 1800s in response to the nation's dwindling forests and the pollution caused by an increasing number of factories.

The vibrant book chronicles the accomplishments of conservationists such as Gifford Pinchot... Read more

Americans in Paris

By: Charles Glass

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist Charles Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation.In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable... Read more

Brute

By: Robert Coram

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and... Read more

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 29 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from... Read more

On Nuclear Terrorism

By: Michael Levi

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details. Yet, as a consequence, we fail to understand how best to defeat it. Michael Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear plot. Along the way, Levi identifies the many obstacles, large... Read more

The Secret of Chanel No. 5

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

Narrated by: Liz de Nesnera

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” —Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the BirkinTilar J. Mazzeo, author of the New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot (an Amazon Best of the Month book in October 2008) returns with a captivating history of the world’s most famous, seductive, and popular perfume: Chanel No. 5.... Read more

Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar

By: Martin C. Libicki

Narrated by: Erik Sandvold

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The protection of cyberspace, the information medium, has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It... Read more

The Killing of Crazy Horse

By: Thomas Powers

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the most feared and loathed Indian of his time, earning his reputation in surprise victories against the troops of Generals Crook and Custer at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn. Despite his enduring reputation, he has remained an enigma (even the whereabouts of his burial place are unknown, and no portrait or photograph of him exists). Now,... Read more

Venice

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and surprising city.



His account embraces facts and romance,... Read more

Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

Decision Points - Abridged

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

Scorpions

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented,... Read more

Political Despair Is Not An Option

By: Paul Loeb

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We must continue the journey in the face of burn-out and other political challenges. The challenge is to work even harder in difficult times. Paul Loeb encourages us with stories and anecdotes not to give up in despair, but to persist with ever more vigor. Read more

More Money Than God

By: Sebastian Mallaby

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of... Read more

The War for Late Night

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Sean Kenin

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.

When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a... Read more

Atlantic

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon... Read more

Combat Swimmer

By: Robert A. Gormly

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The US Navy SEALs created a legend that would grow throughout the Vietnam War, earning an enemy bounty to anyone who could capture or kill one. As leader of the SEALs, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells his amazing story, taking us into some of the most hair-raising missions ever assigned.After a career including two tours of duty in Vietnam as well... Read more

Ratification

By: Pauline Maier

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 23 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline Maier recounts the dramatic events of the ensuing debate in homes, taverns, and convention... Read more

Crash of the Titans

By: Greg Farrell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon
 
With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall... Read more

Hellcats

By: Peter Sasgen

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945-with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to avoid an invasion of the home islands, believed that if the Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, the enemy would be... Read more

Give Me Tomorrow

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?” With a thousand-yard stare, a haggard and bloodied marine looked incredulously at the war correspondent who asked him this question. In an answer that took “almost forever,” the marine responded, “Give me tomorrow.”After nearly four months of continuous and bloody combat in Korea, such a wish... Read more

The Smartest Guys in the Room

By: Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters. Read more

A God-Sized Vision

By: Collin Hansen & John D. Woodbridge

Narrated by: Adam Black

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Can God stir revival by his Holy Spirit, even in our culture today? Do we really believe he can? In a day of diminished expectations, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Accounts That Stretch and Stir recounts global examples of prior revivals, beginning with the Reformation and the Great Awakenings. It continues with the Welsh and Azusa Street revivals... Read more

Cleopatra

By: Stacy Schiff

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.

Though her life... Read more