History audiobooks

These Honored Dead

By: Thomas A. Desjardin

Narrated by: Lewis Grenville

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since the guns fell silent in July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg has emerged as the defining conflict in our nation's history. American memory has established Gettysburg as the most important, most heroic, most savage battle this nation has ever fought. It has become our Waterloo, our battle of Marathon, our siege of Troy. In this riveting... Read more

Atkinson’s People

By: Richard Curtis & Rowan Atkinson

Narrated by: Rowan Atkinson

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rowan Atkinson stars as many different characters in four episodes from the classic comedy series, written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis ('Four Weddings and a Funeral', 'Notting Hill'), which investigates the lives of four great - but imaginary - men. We hear about the life and times of master orator, Sir Benjamin Fletcher: writer,... Read more

And the Show Went On

By: Alan Riding

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Alan Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or... Read more

Franklin and Eleanor

By: Hazel Rowley

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism—and many scandals in between—the... Read more

First Family

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their... Read more

Going Home to Glory

By: David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower's closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an... Read more

Lion of Liberty

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, "Give me liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights. If Washington was the "Sword of the Revolution" and Jefferson,... Read more

The Elephant to Hollywood

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act

When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really... Read more

Broke - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe

Narrated by: Brian Sack & Glenn Beck

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, showcases his distinctive humor in taking on the political landscape in his fight to fix America—before it’s too late.

As the most important presidential election in our history looms, ask yourself: Are America’s finances in better shape than they were four years ago? Or are we... Read more

The Elephant to Hollywoo - Abridged

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really... Read more

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 24 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.”Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his “Final (and Right) Plan” for telling the story of his life. His... Read more

The Hellhound of Wall Street

By: Michael Perino

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a... Read more

All but My Life

By: Gerda Weissmann Klein

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

All but My Lifeis the basis for the Academy Award–winning documentary from HBO,One Survivor Remembers.This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops—including the man who was to... Read more

The Lost Peace

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

""Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored."" —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Team of RivalsRobert Dalleck... Read more

The Man Who Invented the Computer

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a  David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.

One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary... Read more

My Thoughts Be Bloody

By: Nora Titone

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 19 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history.

The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is... Read more

When Janey Comes Marching Home

By: Laura Browder

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, yet in today's wars, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty.When Janey... Read more

Profiles in Leadership

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more.

What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best... Read more

Der Stauferkaiser Friedrich II. und seine Zeit - Abridged

By: Stefan Weinfurter

Narrated by: Stefan Weinfurter

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kaiser Friedrich II. (1212 - 1250) wurde bereits von Zeitgenossen als Staunen der Welt oder Verwandler der Welt bezeichnet. In einer Zeit, in der die Wissenschaften ihren ersten großen Aufschwung in Europa nahmen, in der die höfische Kultur ihren Höhepunkt erreichte und gleichzeitig die Armutsbewegungen die Menschen ergriff, herrschte Friedrich... Read more

Die deutsche Revolution 1989/90 - Abridged

By: Andreas Rödder

Narrated by: Andreas Rödder

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Schon den Zeitgenossen war klar: 1989/90 erlebten sie einen jener Momente, in denen die Geschichte, wie Jacob Burckhardt schrieb, plötzlich in furchtbare Schnelligkeit gerät: Entwicklungen, die sonst Jahrhunderte brauchen, scheinen in Monaten und Wochen wie flüchtige Phantome vorüberzugehen und damit erledigt zu sein. Der Zusammenbruch des... Read more

Im Gespräch mit Arthur Schopenhauer - Abridged

By: Andreas Belwe & Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Andreas Belwe & Peter Hetzmannsreder

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Durch die Form des Dialogs wird Schopenhauer zum Leben erweckt. Es werden Fragen zu unserem Zeitgeschehen an Schopenhauer gerichtet, die er mit Original-Zitaten beantwortet. Dadurch erscheint der Philosoph aktuell in seinen Ansichten zu Gesellschaft, Kultur und Lebensführung anschaulich und lebensnah. Die Zitate sind entnommen aus Werken und... Read more

Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt

By: James P. Duffy

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite, or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D.... Read more

In Deep Water

By: Peter Lehner

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive... Read more

Outside Looking In

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review).

Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills brings... Read more