History audiobooks

We Who Are Alive and Remain

By: Marcus Brotherton

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration camps, and drank a victory toast in April 1945 at Hitler's... Read more

Passionate Sage

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a fresh look at an astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award–winning American Sphinx.John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement, grappling with contradictory views of... Read more

The Last Division

By: Ann Tusa

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin has played a major role in world politics since the Nazi era and continues to be in the spotlight today as the once-again great capital of Germany. Ann Tusa presents an engaging chronicle of the Cold War partitions of this historic city, from the political strife and administrative division by the victors against Hitler through the... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Paul C. Nagel

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A United States minister, senator, president, and congressman in turn, John Quincy Adams was one of the most prevalent and dedicated Americans in history. Drawing from Adams' seventy-year diary, author Paul Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable... Read more

George Eliot

By: Kathryn Hughes

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of a respectable self-made businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes. Only her burgeoning literary success allowed her to overcome society’s disapproval and eventually take her proper place at the heart of London’s literary... Read more

Enemies

By: Bill Gertz

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the great untold story of the war on terror. Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the US government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. In his explosive... Read more

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, with eBook

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. For a slave, it was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North, and the beginnings of the career that was to... Read more

War and the Future, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells sets forth an intriguing, first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He examines the technological effects of modern warfare on human nature, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing. Two prophetic visions of his philosophy to truly end... Read more

SEAL Warrior

By: Thomas H. Keith & J. Terry Riebling

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The old battle tactics were useless for the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, who were fighting a guerrilla war on foreign soil for the first time in American history.



With the depth and honesty of Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, SEAL Warrior sheds light on the operations of the SEAL teams in Vietnam and shows how the SEALs laid the foundation for the modern... Read more

The Bonfire

By: Marc Wortman

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history. But this epic siege on American soil has been treated only cursorily by historians. Marc Wortman grandly remedies this situation with The Bonfire, an absorbing narrative history told through the points of view of key participants both Confederate and Union.The Bonfire reveals an... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 3

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Bob Costas

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners on a tour through the segregated days of early basketball. Along the way, hoops icons like Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, and John Wooden share their thoughts, while broadcast legend Bob Costas narrates. Read more

Der Fahrradspeichenfabrikkomplex - Abridged

By: Angela Kreuz & Dieter Lohr

Narrated by: Angela Kreuz & Dieter Lohr

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am 3. Dezember 1980 erklärte der seinerzeitige bayerische Ministerpräsident Franz Josef Strauß vor dem Landtag, die bayerische Staatsregierung prüfe, ob es in Bayern einen geeigneten Standort für eine atomare Anlage zur Aufarbeitung abgebrannter Kernbrennstäbe gebe. Bereits kurze Zeit später kamen erste Gerüchte auf, wonach eine solche WAA in... Read more

The March of Folly

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in... Read more

A Bright Shining Lie

By: Neil Sheehan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 35 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties

By: Jonathan Leaf

Narrated by: Rick Silversmith

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blast from the past, critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history: the 1960s.Did you know that the civil rights movement did little to improve the lives of average African Americans or that most Americans actively supported the... Read more

After America

By: Paul Starobin

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving beyond Fareed Zakaria's bestselling The Post-American World, veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. The American Century has passed, argues Starobin, due in large part to... Read more

The Guillotine

By: Thomas Carlyle

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time,... Read more

The Constitution

By: Thomas Carlyle

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time,... Read more

The Bastille

By: Thomas Carlyle

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time,... Read more

In FED We Trust

By: David Wessel

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whatever it takes”

That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his... Read more

The Battle for America, 2008

By: Dan Balz & Haynes Johnson

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The election of 2008 shattered political barriers, illuminated undercurrents of race, gender, and class, and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable rivals ever to seek the presidency in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. It was an election that played out against a backdrop of war, economic collapse, and... Read more

Thrilling Days in Army Life

By: General George A. Forsyth

Narrated by: Erik Sandvold

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Thrilling Days in Army Life describes one of the classic encounters between Indians and the frontier army. In the summer of 1868, George A. Forsyth led fifty scouts to search out Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who were conducting raids throughout the western Great Plains in Kansas. In this book, he relates the six-day siege in September that... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Paul Cartledge

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356–323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order. Alexander’s legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and... Read more

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 29 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts:... Read more