History audiobooks

The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty, with eBook

By: William Bligh

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain William Bligh recorded the most famous mutiny in sea history when a group of his men, led by Fletcher Christian, forced him from his ship onto a small launch and cast him adrift into the sea. Was Bligh a harsh sea captain whose vicious cruelty forced his men to mutiny? Or was Fletcher Christian greedy for power and unjustified in taking... Read more

Greek Drama

By: Peter Meineck

Narrated by: Peter Meineck

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The plays of one ancient city 2,500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of all subsequent Western drama, not only on the theatrical stage, but on opera, film, television, stand-up comedy, and dance-in fact, most, if not all, of the live arts owe a debt to the theatre of ancient Greece and the city of... Read more

The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven ladies and three gentlemen escape the dying, corrupt city of Florence to pass ten days in the hills of Fiesole telling each other stories. Reveling in their enchanted dreamworld of beauty and luxury, they take turns playing king or queen for the day, with the designated ruler naming the stipulations... Read more

1864

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P.... Read more

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

By: Masood Farivar

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you liked The Kite Runner, you must read this riveting, firsthand account by one of the real Afghan mujahideen . . . An extraordinary tale.” —Leslie Cockburn Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of... Read more

Angels and Ages

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the literal truth and authoritarianism as... Read more

The Accountant's Story

By: Roberto Escobar

Narrated by: Ruben Diaz

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful... Read more

The Lost City of Z

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.

After stumbling... Read more

When Life and Beliefs Collide

By: Carolyn Custis James

Narrated by: Ruth Bloomquist

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Praise of When Life and Beliefs Collide.Sooner or later, life’s difficulties bring every Christian woman to God’s doorstep with questions too personal to ignore. “Why does God let me go through such painful circumstances?” “Why does he seem indifferent to my prayers?” We’re tired of spiritual pie in the sky. We want authentic,... Read more

Dumb Money

By: Daniel Gross

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial... Read more

The Canal Builders

By: Julie Greene

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal's construction—the tens of thousands of workingmen and -women who traveled from around the world to build it. Drawing on research from... Read more

Icons of the Iron Age

By: Susan Johnston

Narrated by: Susan Johnstone

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

were the Celts, who lived in Europe during the Iron Age, from about 600 BCE into the early centuries CE. They fascinated ancient Classical writers of Greece and Rome, who wrote about them often. They left behind an intriguing record of physical remains that have been recovered by archaeologists, and they have continued to hold our attention as... Read more

The Tiber and the Potomac

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed university professor and best-selling author Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire. The Tiber and the Potomac explores the amazing parallels between history's two most unusual... Read more

They Like Jesus but Not the Church

By: Dan Kimball

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people today, especially among emerging generations, don’t resonate with the church and organized Christianity. Some are leaving the church and others were never part of the church in the first place. Sometimes it’s because of misperceptions about the church. Yet often they are still spiritually open and fascinated with Jesus. This is a... Read more

Shadows in the Jungle

By: Larry Alexander

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 men were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the army had to offer. Their task: silently slip onto Japanese-held islands, stalk through the... Read more

Madness Under the Royal Palms

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the island for a dinner dance honoring Prince Edward. Among those dancing to the string orchestra that evening would be those accused of murder and spousal abuse, and others who would suffer fates both unseemly and unspeakable. Among the outer circle there... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Stephen Molton & Gus Russo

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 23 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers—the Kennedys and the Castros—who collectively authored one of modern history's most... Read more

Maimonides

By: Joel L. Kraemer

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough’s John Adams and Walter Isaacson’s Einstein, MAIMONIDES is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one... Read more

The Gamble - Abridged

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment

Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late... Read more

Invisible Hands

By: Kim Phillips-Fein

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America—and their profit margins—from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and... Read more

Lincoln

By: Richard Carwardine

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. This extraordinary biography by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president.While pursuing office, Lincoln drew... Read more

Never Give In

By: Winston Churchill

Narrated by: Winston Churchill

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can forget the words "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" They were uttered in 1940 by one of the 20th century's greatest orators, Winston Churchill, eager to spur on his countrymen in their fight... Read more

Joseph P. Kennedy Presents

By: Cari Beauchamp

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph P. Kennedy reigned in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930, when he ran three movie studios, led the revolution in sound pictures, and created the first modern entertainment empire. Sorting through the archives of Kennedy deals, letters, and memos, Cari Beauchamp tells for the first time how he made it all happen, a miracle of smoke and mirrors... Read more

The Yankee Years

By: Joe Torre & Tom Verducci

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.

Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the... Read more