History audiobooks

Heroes Among Us

By: Major Chuck Larson

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 1 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past four years, but fewer than 500 from this group have earned a Silver Star, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, or the Medal of Honor. Those who have been awarded these distinguished honors all demonstrated an extraordinary courage under fire in the... Read more

Havana Nocturne

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it: the Cuban Revolution.



Bringing together long-buried historical information... Read more

The Way of the World

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo,... Read more

The Challenge

By: Jonathan Mahler

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2001, a thirty-one-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to US forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden’s driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal.The Pentagon assigned a young... Read more

Southern Storm - Abridged

By: Noah Andre Trudeau

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S.... Read more

Human Smoke

By: Nicholson Baker

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources—including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries—the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision,... Read more

The God Who Hung on the Cross

By: Dois I. Rosser & Ellen Vaughn

Narrated by: Pam Ward & Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

You won’t see these stories on CNN or read them in your local newspaper, but Jesus Christ is doing miracles in some of the most unlikely places around the world. And He can do so right where you live as well. Right now.This book will help you break out of the box of limited Christianity and tap into God’s awesome power—like its author, whose... Read more

Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Wolfgang Pauli - Abridged

By: Wolfgang Pauli & Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wolfgang Pauli (1900-58) wird von seinen Fachkollegen in einem Atemzug mit Isaac Newton und Albert Einstein genannt. Der bezeichnete Pauli als seinen "geistigen Sohn". Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte hat Pauli lange Zeit vernachlässigt. Wer den Grund dafür sucht, kann ihn in Paulis Bemühen finden, die Rolle des Unbewussten in der Physik und die... Read more

The Seekers - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

Narrated by: Denis deBoisblanc

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Read more

The Summer of 1787

By: David O. Stewart

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

David O. Stewart presents this well-researched account of the U.S. Constitution's creation not as a dry analysis of events, but as a high-powered narrative filled with dramatic intensity and larger-than-life historical figures. "Briskly written, full of deft characterizations and drama ... a splendid rendering of the [Constitution's] creation."... Read more

The Prince, with eBook

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prince has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism and political expediency. Although a large part is devoted to the mechanics of gaining and staying in power, Machiavelli's end purpose is to maintain a just and stable government. He is not ambiguous in stating his belief that committing a small cruelty to... Read more

The Art of War, with eBook

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Shelly Frasier

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"All warfare is based on deception. Thus, when able to attack, we must seem unable. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant."



Written before Alexander the Great was born, this... Read more

A Thousand Hills

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country. Now, as President... Read more

Much Depends on Dinner

By: Margaret Visser

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Margaret Visser holds a doctorate in classics and appears frequently on television and radio shows. Much Depends on Dinner was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. As the subtitle suggests, here she uses the framework of a simple meal to show us how our food has... Read more

Reporting America at War

By: Michelle Ferrari & James Tobin

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time, the nation's most respected reporters share their stories as the eyes and ears of the nation to create a fascinating oral history. Some of the most influential journalists of our time, including Christiane Amanpour, Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett and Andy Rooney convey the facts, the brutality and the drama... Read more

Empires of the Sea

By: Roger Crowley

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Empires of the Sea tells the story of the fifty-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean: one of the fiercest and most influential contests in European history. It traces events from the appearance on the world stage of Suleiman the Magnificent—the legendary ruler of the Ottoman Empire—through "the years of... Read more

No Greater Glory

By: Dan Kurzman

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

During the night of February 3, 1943, a torpedo shattered the side of the SS Dorchester off the coast of Greenland. The 904 men aboard, who would certainly have drowned, were saved, thanks to the tremendous bravery of the four chaplains aboard: the Reverend George L. Fox (Methodist), the Reverend Clark V. Poling (Dutch Reformed), Father John P.... Read more

The Dark Side

By: Jane Mayer

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days following September 11, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to... Read more

Iwo Jima

By: Larry Smith

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 soldiers died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II.



Bestselling oral historian Larry Smith dug deep for exclusive... Read more

The Annals of Tacitus

By: Cornelius Tacitus

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Annals, the last and greatest achievement of Tacitus, records the history of the Julio-Claudian emperors from the death of Augustus (14 A.D.) to the reign of Nero (54-68). These are stories of mutiny and murder, of whole armies disappearing beyond the Rhine, of an unstable and gloomy frontier. Tacitus brings us Nero himself, whose reign saw... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Norman F. Cantor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines—heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure.In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries... Read more

Icon of Evil

By: David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1920s, Hajj Amin-al-Husseini was the political and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs. A vicious anti-Semite, he led numerous pogroms against Jewish settlers. During World War II, al-Husseini allied himself and his people with Hitler; he lived in Germany, met with Hitler, encouraged "the final solution," and became close friends... Read more

Conquistador

By: Buddy Levy

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish expire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions... Read more

The Black Hole War

By: Leonard Susskind

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inside account of the battle over the true nature of black holes—with nothing less than our understanding of the entire universe at stake.What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did—and in doing so, put at risk everything we... Read more