History audiobooks
Meet Ludvig Van Beethoven
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: James Rix
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing People of London
By: Charles Margerison
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Explorers - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Markus Hayes
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Amazing Americans
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Sarah Wintermeyer, J S Gilbert, Josh Bergman, M...
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing American Politicians - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: J S Gilbert & Markus Hayes
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Abraham Lincoln
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Markus Hayes
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Amelia Earhart
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing American Achievers - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Nicolas Bearde, J S Gilbert & Josh Bergman
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Amazing Scientists - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Mark Smith
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Furious Love
By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... Read more
View audiobookBlind Descent
By: James M. Tabor
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earth’s deepest cave—the supercave—remained undiscovered. This is the story of... Read more
View audiobookAmazing People of New York
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Nicolas Bearde, Sarah Wintermeyer, J S Gilbert,...
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ninth
By: Harvey Sachs
Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to... Read more
Amazing American Women - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis & Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Wolfgang Mozart
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Phantom Major
By: Virginia Cowles
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's tanks were sweeping toward Suez, a handful of daring raiders were making history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, often driving hundreds of miles through the deserts of North Africa. They hid by day and struck by night, destroying aircraft, blowing up... Read more
View audiobookYalta
By: S.M. Plokhy
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 22 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning Harvard historian S.M. Plokhy delivers a "convincing revisionist analysis" (Publishers Weekly) of the February 1945 Yalta conference. Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy's engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR's negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought. "An astute reappraisal of the Yalta... Read more
View audiobookThe Price of Stones
By: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri & Susan Urbanek Linville
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An incredibly inspiring and thrilling book, this is the story of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, who grew up in rural southwestern Uganda, the son of an irascible small-time farmer and his loving wife. In spite of the family's poverty, Jackson succeeds and graduates from the national university with a calling to work in human rights that leads him to... Read more
View audiobookReset
By: Stephen Kinzer
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran.
Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer recommends... Read more
The Third Reich in Power
By: Richard J. Evans
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 31 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war
This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of the Atlantic Monthly as "the definitive English-language account... gripping and precise." It chronicles... Read more
Colossus
By: Michael Hiltzik
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 18 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed.
The United States after Hoover... Read more
Globish
By: Robert McCrum
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. Equally unlikely, a colony of that island nation across the Atlantic grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. How? By... Read more
View audiobookA Treasury of Deception
By: Michael Farquhar
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
We may say that honesty is the best policy, but history suggests otherwise. In this infinitely citable book, the author recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time.With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe?Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel Nostradamus passed off as prophecy?Who actually wrote... Read more
View audiobookA Treasury of Great American Scandals
By: Michael Farquhar
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our Founding Fathers and... Read more
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