History audiobooks

Trigger Men

By: Hans Halberstadt

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes readers deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields. Shadow Team is probably the most productive sniper team in American military history, accounting for 276 confirmed kills in a six-month span with no casualties... Read more

The Lincolns

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Mark Epstein has produced an incisive and balanced portrait of the Lincolns, from their mysterious and troubled courtship in 1840 until his assassination in Ford's Theatre in 1865. For the first time, in The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage we can feel the full force of the tragedy that was the slow crumbling of their marriage, knowing it... Read more

Breaking News

By: Martin Fletcher

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Fletcher doesn't claim to be a hero. Yet he didn't flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers. With humor and elegance, Fletcher... Read more

The Age of American Unreason

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual... Read more

Boots on the Ground by Dusk

By: Mary Tillman & Narda Zacchino

Narrated by: Mary Tillman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army. He graduated from their elite Ranger school and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan.... Read more

Up Till Now

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.

It was the original Star Trek series, and... Read more

Easy Company Soldier

By: Don Malarkey & Bob Welch

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Elite paratrooper Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the World War II battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne.

Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their... Read more

Up Till Now - Abridged

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more

The Best Game Ever

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season’s NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America’s post-war economic boom, was still greatly over-shadowed by the country’s favored pastime—baseball—but the 1958 championship proved to be the turning point for... Read more

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

By: John Lukacs

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as prime minister. Europe was in crisis: three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler’s armies were rapidly sweeping westward. Churchill had little support within the British government... Read more

The Education of Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he... Read more

Polk

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Tennessee Democrat James K. Polk is generally ranked among the nation's most effective chief executives. In this straightforward, unnuanced biography, Borneman (1812: The War That Forged a Nation) relates why. Coming into office determined to annex Texas, gain the Oregon Territory from Britain, lower the tariff and reform the national banking... Read more

Final Salute

By: Jim Sheeler

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Muqtada

By: Patrick Cockburn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever else the United States intended when it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it was not to hand the country over to a 32-year-old militant cleric who fought against their presence from the start and whom former Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer III described as a "Bolshevik Islamist." Yet, as the occupation steadily disintegrates, the... Read more

Audition

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

The Prince of Frogtown

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.

He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman... Read more

The Man Who Loved China

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (""Elegant and scrupulous""—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (""A mesmerizing page-turner""—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held... Read more

The Great Derangement - Abridged

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND


Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church... Read more

Audition - Abridged

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Barbara Walters

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me:
“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

Moyers on Democracy - Abridged

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Moyers on America today:

“Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our souls demanded by this challenge . . . kindred spirits across the nation must confront the most fundamental... Read more

Wiser in Battle - Abridged

By: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Narrated by: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent . . . until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle, LTG (Ret) Ricardo S. Sanchez, former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global War on Terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling... Read more

The Post-American World

By: Fareed Zakaria

Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Age

For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. This economic growth is generating a new... Read more

Roberts Ridge

By: Malcolm MacPherson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For the US Navy’s elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough: take control of a towering, 10,240-foot mountain peak called Takur Ghar, a key post in their plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan. But the enemy was waiting, and when the Special Forces chopper was shredded by enemy fire, a red-haired SEAL named... Read more

AC/DC

By: Tom McNichol

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison bet wrong in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current.... Read more