History audiobooks

This Kind of War

By: T. R. Fehrenbach

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 24 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War makes this an appropriate time to revisit This Kind of War, the monumental study of the conflict that began in June 1950. Successive generations of U.S. military officers have considered this book an indispensable part of their education.



T. R. Fehrenbach's narrative brings to life the harrowing and... Read more

Blacklisted by History

By: M. Stanton Evans

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Accused of creating a bogus Red scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half-century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch-hunts.But that... Read more

The Third Man - Abridged

By: Peter Mandelson

Narrated by: Peter Mandelson

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

READ BY PETER MANDELSON. The hotly anticipated memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects. READ BY PETER MANDELSON. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during... Read more

Churchill

By: Roy Jenkins

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 38 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. From a very young age, Churchill believed he was destined to play a great role in the life of his nation, and he determined to prepare himself for the task. Roy Jenkins shows in fascinating detail how Churchill educated himself for greatness, how he worked out his livelihood through writing as well... Read more

The Ghosts of Cannae

By: Robert L. O'Connell

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannibal's battle plan at Cannae became the mother of all great battle strategies—the first battle of encirclement that has been imitated (often to disastrous effect) endlessly over the past two thousand years. In this brilliant, long-overdue, and beautifully written account, Robert L. O'Connell gives listeners an epic account of one of the most... Read more

The Grandeur That Was Rome

By: Jennifer Tobin

Narrated by: Jennifer Tobin

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Common perceptions of Ancient Rome are plentiful, whether they take the form of crazy emperors hosting lavish feasts, scenes of chariot races and gladiatorial combat, or processions of conquering armies. But that is only half the story. In this enlightening lecture series, Professor Jennifer Tobin presents a sweeping portrait of Rome, including... Read more

Jamestown

By: William M. Kelso

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious about the birthplace of the United States are left to turn to... Read more

Living with History/Making Social Change

By: Gerda Lerner

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.Six of the 12 essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in... Read more

In an Antique Land

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of... Read more

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Scott Sheppard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more

A World Destroyed

By: Martin J. Sherwin

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author... Read more

Good to Great

By: Jim Collins

Narrated by: Jim Collins

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Built To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies... Read more

Fur, Fortune, and Empire

By: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Fur, Fortune, and Empireis the most comprehensive and compelling history of the American fur trade ever written.As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent,... Read more

A Full Cup

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. he built a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. And his colorful pursuit of the America's Cup trophy made him a beloved figure on both sides of the... Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

By: William L. Shirer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 57 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the gripping docuseries Hitler and the Nazis, now streaming on NetflixSince its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century’s blackest hours.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and... Read more

George Washington

By: John R. Alden

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary one-volume biography vividly portrays the unbreakable link between George Washington and the nation he helped create, defend, and govern. It begins in 1754, when Washington, beginning his military career with the Virginia Regiment, makes the decision to fire the opening shots of war between England and France. Carrying through... Read more

Medium Raw

By: Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes... Read more

The Hearsts

By: William Randolph Hearst

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder of the largest US media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr. changed the face of American journalism forever. Hearst, Jr., with coauthor Casserly, tells the family’s story, from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. In a detailed, straight-forward, and earnest manner, the authors examine Hearst Sr.’s... Read more

Since Yesterday

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this panorama of the thirties, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, “a... Read more

Lives of the Pirates

By: Kathleen Krull & Kathryn Hewitt

Narrated by: Ray Childs & Kymberly Dakin

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The pirates of legend sailed the seven seas, exercised a salty vocabulary, and pursued lives full of swordplay and adventure. But what was life like for the real pirates of history? What odd animals did William Dampier have on board? Why did Grace O’Malley cut off her hair? And which pirate liked to wear pajamas on deck? Through the spyglass of... Read more

Ill Fares the Land

By: Tony Judt

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

British historian Tony Judt writes a passionate, wise letter about what is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. He shows how to apply the past to the future, challenging us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. Read more

Greatest Americans Series: George Washington

By: George Washington

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Amidst all legend and lore surrounding America’s first president, the brilliant statesman George Washington’s character emerges in this engagingly narrated audiobook through his own words. In this key speech by the former army general, the qualities of integrity, humility, others-focused mission, and concern for human freedoms are clearly seen –... Read more

Lee

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In fact, he lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the tempestuous postwar period.This is a moving and intimate account of those... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Geroge Washington's Farewell Address

By: George Washington

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection…and which appear to me all-important to... Read more