History audiobooks

Traitor to His Class

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 37 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius,... Read more

Traitor to His Class - Abridged

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius,... Read more

Stalin

By: Robert Conquest

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded—even after his death.In this book, the first to draw from recently released archives, leading USSR scholar-historian Robert Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student; as a revolutionary and... Read more

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause

By: Jeffry D. Wert

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortally wounded in battle when he was only thirty-one, the dashing J. E. B. Stuart, the South's "plumed warrior knight," stands with Stonewall Jackson as one of the Confederacy's most revered martyrs. Union General John Sedgwick called him "the greatest cavalryman ever foaled in America." Jeffry D. Wert, however, offers a more balanced... Read more

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge

By: Paul Lockhart

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure.



In the first book on Steuben since 1937, Paul Lockhart, an expert on European military history, finally... Read more

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

By: Peter Biskind

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 23 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us... Read more

Lincoln

By: Fred Kaplan

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln, acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America’s sixteenth president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment. Like the... Read more

Descartes' Bones

By: Russell Shorto

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling, prize-winning author Russell Shorto comes a grand and strange history of the on-going debate between religion and science-seen through the oddly momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene Descartes. In this book Shorto brilliantly shows how this argument first started with Descartes and how... Read more

The Battle for the Rhine

By: Robin Neillands

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was really responsible for the failure at Nijmegen, the destruction of the British First Airborne Division at Arnhem, and the failure of Operation Market Garden? Why was Montgomery threatened with the sack when he had just retrieved Bradley's failure in the Battle of the Bulge? Was General Eisenhower's command strategy either workable or... Read more

Sun in a Bottle

By: Charles Seife

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the biggest source of energy in our solar system – the phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion seems a virtually unlimited source of power, but it has been at the center of a tragic and comic pursuit that has left scores of scientists battered and... Read more

The Good Man of Nanking

By: John Rabe

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining... Read more

We Die Alone

By: David Howarth

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most enthralling true adventure stories ever written, We Die Alone, set in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, is an epic tale of survival against staggering odds.It begins with an ambushed commando raid that leaves all but one of the expatriate resistance fighters dead or captured. Though wounded, Jan Baalsrud, the sole survivor, takes off... Read more

The Founding Fathers

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 22 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Founding Fathers series includes:

George Washington by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn
In this thoughtful and incisive biography, Burns and Dunn dissect the strengths and weaknesses of Washington's presidential leadership, from his lasting foreign and economic policies to his polarizing denunciation of political parties and his public... Read more

Read My Heart

By: Jane Dunn

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sir William Temple (1628—1699) and Dorothy Osborne (1627—1695) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, respectively—did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the... Read more

Built to Last - Abridged

By: Jim Collins

Narrated by: Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as... Read more

The Voice of Reason

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand’s life, they reflect a... Read more

Generation Kill

By: Evan Wright

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their... Read more

The King and the Cowboy

By: David Fromkin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

In The King and the Cowboy, renowned historian David Fromkin reveals how two unlikely world leaders—Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt—recast themselves as respected political players and established a friendship that would shape the course of the twentieth century in ways never anticipated.



In 1901, these two colorful public... Read more

Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrich your holiday celebrations as you discover the incredible stories and the inspiration behind the Christmas songs you know and love.Jingle Bells Mary
Did You Know?
The First Noel
O Holy Night
Silver Bells
White ChristmasThe songs that you've sung since you were a child continue to bring Christmas to life each year. Now, you'll learn how your... Read more

Mil y una muertes

By: Sergio Ramirez

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra nos lleva a traves de la historia de las fotografias que el fotografo Castellon toma durante los tiempos de la guerra en Europa y los tiempos de paz en Nicaragua, pasa de un episodio a otro desde la naciente Nicaragua, un ghetto en Varsovia, o a un monasterio en Mallorca y muchos mas. Asi como tambien mencionando a un sin numero de... Read more

Witness

By: Whittaker Chambers

Narrated by: John MacDonald

Length: 30 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Whittaker Chambers' harrowing account of his journey to hell and back—through espionage, treason, and terror—is, ultimately, a story of faith.First published in 1952, Witness came on the heels of America's trial of the century, in which Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, of spying for... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

By: H. W. Crocker

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Think you know the Civil War? You won’t know the full story until you read this book, a quick and lively study of America’s own Iliad, a provocative and entertaining addition to the Politically Incorrect Guide series.Get ready for a rousing rebel yell as bestselling author H. W. Crocker III charges through bunkers and battlefields in The... Read more

Sarah Palin

By: Joe Hilley

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Our present era demands a new style of leadership that transcends political affiliation and party lines. In an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are prized commodities. Governor Sarah Palin (R—Alaska) brings both of those qualities to her new role as... Read more

Pocahontas

By: Captain John Smith

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early seventeenth century, Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown in Virginia. Here is Smith's own account of his adventures there and his relationship with the beautiful Indian princess, Pocahontas.



Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of about thirty tribes of Indians... Read more