History audiobooks

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

Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony

By: A. Robert Neurath

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Unknown to many, Bratislava, presently the capital of Slovakia, used to be in the Habsburg Austro–Hungarian Monarchy, a multi–national city. German, Hungarian, and Slovak speaking residents represented the majority of the population, explaining why the city had multiple names – Pressburg, Pozsony, and Bratislava. But it took a long time before... Read more

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

By: Mark A. Noll

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll. Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. Furthermore, most Americans... Read more

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

By: Robert Louis Wilken

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a preeminent religious historian, this book provides an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as s host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including... Read more

American Colossus

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.

The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth... Read more

The Fiery Trial

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C.... Read more

The Last Boy

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Jane Leavy & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife... Read more

The Gun

By: C. J. Chivers

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the world's most widely recognized weapon, the most profuse tool for killing ever made. More than fifty national armies carry the automatic Kalashnikov, as do an array of police, intelligence, and security agencies all over the world.



In this tour de force, prizewinning New York Times reporter C. J. Chivers traces the invention of the... Read more

On the Edge of Survival

By: Spike Walker

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington, to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004, during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.



Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the... Read more

Without Hesitation - Abridged

By: Gen. Hugh Shelton, Ronald Levinson & Malcolm Mc...

Narrated by: Gen. Hugh Shelton

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time.

Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible... Read more

The Deeds of My Fathers

By: Paul David Pope

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A story that reads like The Godfather has been crossed with Citizen Kane. The Deeds of My Fathers is the riveting true story of two men, a father and a son, who each started with nothing and built an empire.Generoso Pope, Sr., an Italian immigrant, arrived in New York in 1906 with only pennies in his pocket. He got a job shoveling sand, but... Read more

Очерки русской смуты

By: Anton Denikin

Narrated by: Yuriy Grigoriev

Length: 49 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Эта работа знаменитого вождя белого движения останется незаменимой для всякого, кто интересуется нашей историей этого периода. Надо признать эту блестящую монографию образцовой по детальности изложения трагических событий и по глубине их анализа. Деникин описывает явное самоизживание царского режима, что сделало революцию не только неотвратимой,... Read more

Суровый век

By: Sergey Alekseev

Narrated by: Vladimir Levashov

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Книга рассказов дла младшего и среднего школьного возраста о временах Ивана IV Грозного Read more

Путь русского офицера

By: Anton Denikin

Narrated by: Yuriy Grigoriev

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Свой бесхитростный рассказ знаменитый генерал начинает своим детством. Он с благодарностью пишет о своих родителях. Мать его была полячкой и, следовательно, католичкой, в то время как отец, человек строгой и честной натуры, был набожным православным. Подробно и с большой деликатностью описаны сложные взаимоотношения между поляками и русскими, а... Read more

Lewis and Clark

By: Samuel Williard Crompton

Narrated by: Tony Craine

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis and Clark is an informative introduction to the famous expedition. Personally selected by President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Meriwether Lewis was assigned to lead an expedition to the West, where the United States had just completed the Louisiana Purchase land transaction with France. Lewis selected William Clark to accompany him, and as... Read more

Великая Екатерина

By: Sergey Alekseev

Narrated by: Vladimir Levashov

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Книга рассказов дла младшего и среднего школьного возраста о временах Екатерины Второй. Read more

Анекдоты о Петре Великом

By: Andrey Nartov

Narrated by: Aleksey Diakov

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Анекдот в русской литературе – это короткий по содержанию и сжатый по изложению рассказ о замечательном или забавном случае из жизни выдающегося человека. Воспоминания Андрея Нартова, «Петра Великого механика и токарного искусства учителя», в виде кратких и поучительных историй доносят до нас уникальные сведения о поступках, мировоззрении и о... Read more

Конец Распутина

By: Phelix Usupov

Narrated by: Alexander Khorlin

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Воспоминания князя Феликса Феликсовича Юсупова – это яркий рассказ непосредственного участника заговора и организатора убийства могущественного и таинственного «старца» Григория Ефимовича Распутина. Книга, до сих пор вызывающая споры у исследователей. Благодаря искренности авторских переживаний воспоминания Феликса Юсупова создают у слушателя... Read more

The Great Hunger

By: Cecil Woodham-Smith

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Hungeris the definitive account of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that... Read more

Mysterious Sightings In the Sky

By: Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

During the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. But the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. The first case reported turns out to be in the 1500s B.C.... Read more

The Dead Beat

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Marilyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of... Read more

Washington

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 41 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the... Read more

No Ordinary Joes

By: Larry Colton

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Their names were Bob Palmer, Gordy Cox, Tim McCoy, and Chuck Vervalin, and in 1941, when they joined the navy, they were not trying to prove their patriotism—they were just looking for a job that would provide "three hots and a cot."



But on April 22, 1943, the war took a terrible turn for them. While on patrol deep in enemy waters, their... Read more

At Home

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most beloved authors of our  time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
 
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of... Read more