History audiobooks

It's Not as Bad as You Think

By: Brian S. Wesbury

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Even with the economy feeling a little bit better, there is a real fear that markets will stay down and things won't ever get back to normal. But a few brave voices say that this attitude is just too pessimistic.
Capitalism has not failed. And it's not time to just give up—on free markets or a better tomorrow. History shows that every time the... Read more

The New Empire of Debt

By: Addison Wiggin & William Bonner

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Golden Age of American capitalism is over. …In the space of half a century it passed from gold, to silver, to paper, and is now somewhere between plastic and navel lint.”- From The New Empire of Debt
In the last half of 2008, the Empire of Debt received the margin call from Hell. Now, all of its citizens are asked to pay up as the U.S.... Read more

Hebrews, Greeks and Romans

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The ancient cultures of the Greeks, Hebrews, and Romans were the greatest contributors to the building of the world as we know it. Trace the roots of modern civilization in this intriguing new course. Read more

Classical Mythology

By: Peter Meineck

Narrated by: Peter Meineck

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE. By the middle of the second century CE, Rome had a population of 1.5 million; Alexandria, in... Read more

The Anglo-Saxon World

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with them their already-well-developed use of language, Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie Beowulf. Professor Michael D.C. Drout is at his best when lecturing on the fascinating history, language, and societal adaptations of the... Read more

Tear Down This Wall

By: Romesh Ratnesar

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon would become among the most famous in presidential history. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate,” Reagan said. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” In this riveting and fast-paced audio book,... Read more

Bible and Sword

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state—and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of... Read more

Inside the Kingdom

By: Robert Lacey

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology and possessed of vast oil deposits, yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back a thousand years to match those of the prophet Muhammad.



With Inside the Kingdom, journalist and bestselling author... Read more

The Greatest Trade Ever

By: Gregory Zuckerman

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing.  He had spent a... Read more

Defend the Realm

By: Christopher Andrew

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 39 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October... Read more

A Rainbow in the Night

By: Dominique Lapierre

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1652, a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's "elect," chosen to rule over the continent.... Read more

The Time of Their Lives

By: Al Silverman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of... Read more

Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

By: Major Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery & Kirby Larson

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 100,000 copies sold! A true story of a marine and the miraculously loyal dog he befriends in Iraq.
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast... Read more

My Experiments with Truth - Abridged

By: Mohandas Gandhi

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This work is Gandhi’s autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times. Read more

The Machiavellians

By: James Burnham

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and... Read more

Final Voyage

By: Peter Nichols

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.

New Bedford, Massachusetts, was fertile ground for this country's first multimillion-dollar industry. Founded by assiduous Quaker merchants... Read more

The Queen Mother - Abridged

By: William Shawcross

Narrated by: William Shawcross

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and,... Read more

A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy

By: René Descartes

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This three-part work includes A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words “I think, therefore I am,” his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that... Read more

Tokyo Vice

By: Jake Adelstein

Narrated by: Jake Adelstein

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the... Read more

Robert Altman

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

The American Civil War

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often... Read more

An Uncommon Union

By: John D. Hannah

Narrated by: Jeremy Johnson

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism.An Uncomfortable Fraternity, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran... Read more

The American Civil War - Abridged

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often... Read more

Robert Altman - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more