History audiobooks

Where Men Win Glory

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman ... Read more

NPR Favorite Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hosts and listeners select their favorite stories from the National Public Radio archives, celebrating life, love, hope—and cookies.

Every NPR listener has had at least one “driveway moment” and probably more. You’re so captivated by a story on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, News & Notes, or another NPR program that... Read more

Lost to the West

By: Lars Brownworth

Narrated by: Lars Brownworth

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.

For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned... Read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 4

By: Clarence B. Carson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. Starting with the “filling out” of the West, this fourth volume goes beyond the standard historical... Read more

El Arte de la Guerra

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

La obra del general Sun Tzu no es únicamente un audiolibro de práctica militar, sino un tratado que enseña la estrategia suprema de aplicar con sabiduría el conocimiento de la naturaleza humana en los momentos de confrontación. No es por tanto, un audiolibro sobre la guerra: es una obra para comprender las raíces de un conflicto y buscar una... Read more

The Candy Bombers

By: Andrei Cherny

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 24 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history.The Candy Bombers is a remarkable story with profound implications for our own time. Cherny tells the tale of the ill-assorted... Read more

Return to Sodom and Gomorrah

By: Charles Pellegrino

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Often called the real Indiana Jones, Charles Pellegrino-acclaimed author, scientist, and adventurer-takes the listener on an extraordinary tour of Old Testament archeological sites from the Nile to the Jordan and Tigris-Euphrates rivers. Delightfully candid and refreshingly free of religious dogma, this fascinating and revelatory tale brings... Read more

The Rise of Nuclear Iran

By: Dore Gold

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but also could be deadly.In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet, countries have repeatedly tried... Read more

The National Parks

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this... Read more

The National Parks - Abridged

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this... Read more

I'm Dying Up Here

By: William Knoedelseder

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm Dying Up Here chronicles the collective coming of age of the standup comedians who defined American humor during the past three decades. Born early in the Baby Boom, they grew up watching The Tonight Show, went to school during Vietnam and Watergate, migrated en masse to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and created an artistic community unlike... Read more

Shake the Devil Off

By: Ethan Brown

Narrated by: James Avery

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the war in Iraq to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this nonfiction account presents a stirring condemnation of America' s failure to adequately address PTSD among its soldiers.After years of military service— including a harrowing stint in Iraq— Zackery Bowen returned to New Orleans to tend bar and... Read more

Gallo Be Thy Name

By: Jerome Tuccille

Narrated by: Grainger Hines

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Rising from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s, the Gallo family used hard work, cunning, and crime to become the largest, most influential winemakers in the world. Gallo Be Thy Name is the portrait of an American dynasty, chronicling the family's history from Prohibition and the Great Depression to its roots in organized crime, its impact... Read more

The Monuments Men

By: Robert Edsel

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion film!

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.

In a race against time,... Read more

The Miracle of Dunkirk

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Day of Infamy.On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only ten miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just eleven days... Read more

Christianity in Action

By: Henry Gariepy & Raymond Todd

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Since its founding in 1865, The Salvation Army has grown from a small London movement, to an internationally renowned organization, virtually synonymous with "charity." In this volume, General Henry Gariepy documents that growth, exploring the thrilling history of the worldwide movement, and the incredible things God has accomplished through it.... Read more

Uranium Wars

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom—the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World... Read more

Emergency - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. ""I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes."" So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first... Read more

The Monuments Men - Abridged

By: Robert Edsel

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion film!

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.

In a race against time,... Read more

The Making of Modern Economics, Second Edition

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Here is a bold, updated history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised this popular work to provide more on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stiglitz and on “imperfect” markets and behavioral economics.This... Read more

American Heroes

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edmund S. Morgan delivers 17 stirring essays about heroic Americans. John Winthrop's unpopular stand saves Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Penn's principles forge a Philadelphia miracle. George Washington's strategy stuns the British. And Anti-Federalist opposition fosters the Bill of Rights. Read more

The Road to Appomattox

By: Robert Hendrickson

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted historian Robert Hendrickson has written more than 40 books and has earned critical acclaim for his meticulous historical research and highly readable style. In The Road to Appomattox, by weaving together passages from diaries, military reports, and newspapers, Hendrickson creates a vivid, firsthand account of the final year of the Civil... Read more

Fighting for America

By: Christopher Paul Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Paul Moore is a curator and research historian for the New York Public Library's world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This noble work of history is a tribute to the inspiring accomplishments of black servicemen and servicewomen whose selflessness helped America achieve victory in World War II. Read more

George Washington at “Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry”

By: Mary Sudman Donovan

Narrated by: Michael Schwalbe

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Gen. George Washington faced a myriad of obstacles in the summer of 1781. In George Washington at “Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry,” author and historian Mary Sudman Donovan explores this crucial period during the American Revolutionary War by chronicling his activities. In July, he moved a large contingent of the Continental army to the east... Read more