History audiobooks

Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'For the record, the word "parlour" is not used, nor is the relatively recent insidious "lounge", except about airports, hotels and liners.'

'Boys should be taught at a very early age - six or seven - to say "Sir" to an older man.'

'When there are servants, the plates for the first course are never put on the table until everyone is seated.'

'I... Read more

Alte Geschichte: Die Germanen - Abridged

By: Bruno Bleckmann

Narrated by: Bruno Bleckmann

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach der Varusschlacht und einigen Folgekämpfen unterließen es die Römer, das Gebiet rechts des Rheines zur Provinz zu machen. Die Germanen blieben außerhalb des Reichsverbandes, was zu tiefgreifenden Folgen für die deutsche und die europäische Geschichte führte. Die Germanen sind zwar nicht die "alten Deutschen", aber doch wesentlicher Teil der... Read more

Game Six

By: Mark Frost

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three games to two, Cincinnati hopes to win it all; Boston is desperate to stay alive. But for all the anticipation, nobody could have predicted what a... Read more

Stones into Schools

By: Greg Mortenson

Narrated by: Atossa Leoni

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in... Read more

Munich, 1938

By: David Faber

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German chancellor Adolf Hitler and was greeted with a hero's welcome. As he paused on the aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper, bearing both his and the Fuhrer's signatures, that contained the promise that Britain... Read more

Enemies of the People

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Kati Marton set out on a wrenching personal journey to uncover the truth about her parents during her childhood in Cold War Budapest. She exposes the cruel mechanics of the communist state using the secret police files on her parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 4

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Stanley Crouch

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners back to the Harlem Renaissance-a time and place when jazz was king. Famed jazz critic Stanley Crouch narrates as Kareem shares thoughts on this distinctly American musical style and its profound influence. Also offering insights are such iconic figures as Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, and Maya... Read more

The Faith Instinct

By: Nicholas Wade

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For at least the last fifty thousand years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given, either by believers or atheists, to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have an evolutionary basis. Did religion evolve, in other words, because it helped people in early societies... Read more

Return of the Primitive

By: Ayn Rand & Peter Schwartz

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1960s and early ’70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.While the New Left achieved limited political success, it brought about vast cultural changes that remain with us to this day.... Read more

The American Journey of Barack Obama

By: The Editors of Life Magazine

Narrated by: The Editors of Life Magazine

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.

The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor... Read more

American Sketches

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer.

In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer... Read more

The Imperial Cruise

By: James Bradley

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded... Read more

Going Rogue - Abridged

By: Sarah Palin

Narrated by: Sarah Palin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America’s most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves. Read more

When China Rules the World

By: Martin Jacques

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

HOW CHINA'S ASCENDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER WILL ALTER THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHNIC BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, UNSEATING THE WEST AND IN THE PROCESS CREATING A WHOLE NEW WORLD

According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by... Read more

The Year That Changed the World

By: Michael Meyer

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"



President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against the USSR; American resoluteness brought the evil empire... Read more

The Selling the American Economy

By: Micheline Maynard

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have grown louder and louder. But... Read more

Practicing History

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into American's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. History should not just be a... Read more

The Fourth Part of the World

By: Toby Lester

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia.... Read more

Gardens

By: Robert Pogue Harrison

Narrated by: Drew Birdseye

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as... Read more

As We Forgive

By: Catherine Claire Larson

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name.If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil?If forgiveness is possible after the slaughter... Read more

The Secret History of the War on Cancer

By: Devra Davis

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The war on cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease—but it has left untouched many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the global environment. Evidence of how these things affect our chances of getting cancer has been either overlooked or suppressed. And this has been no accident. The... Read more

A Generous Orthodoxy

By: Brian D. McLaren

Narrated by: Art Carlson

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed- yet hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian. A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church... Read more

Financial Reckoning Day Fallout

By: William Bonner & Addison Wiggin

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first edition of Financial Reckoning Day was published more than six years ago, many critics felt that maverick financial writers Addison Wiggin and William Bonner were overly critical of the United States' increasing debt and the start of what seemed to be the foreshadowing of economic concerns. Fast-forward to 2009, and much of what... Read more

Obamanos!

By: Hendrik Hertzberg

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hendrik Hertzberg, celebrated political analyst for the New Yorker, watches the long presidential campaign of 2007 and 2008 as it unfolds to reveal the transformation of the Democratic Party, the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and other seismic shifts in our national political consciousness. Hertzberg wrote about the events that culminated in... Read more