History audiobooks

American Heroes

By: Oliver North

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In American Heroes, New York Times bestselling author Oliver North offers an inspiring, first-hand account of the extraordinary young American volunteers defending us against radical Islamic terror. Since 9-11-01, North and his award-winning War Stories documentary team have made a dozen extended trips to Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines... Read more

Commies

By: Ronald Radosh

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Radosh’s earliest memory is of being trundled off to a May Day demonstration by his Communist parents. Radosh grew up in the parallel universe of American Communism, and when he entered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became a founding father of the New Left and emerged as one of its leaders in the sixties.But if Commies... Read more

I Lost My Love in Baghdad

By: Michael Hastings

Narrated by: Michael Hastings

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter—cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, and translators. In startling detail, he describes... Read more

A Voyage Long and Strange

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s... Read more

A Voyage Long and Strange - Abridged

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Tony Horwitz

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s... Read more

Lucia

By: Andrea di Robilant

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. As the larger events unfolding around Lucia mingle with her most personal... Read more

The Return of History and the End of Dreams

By: Robert Kagan

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Post-Cold War, the world remains "unipolar," but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics.... Read more

A Splendid Exchange

By: William J. Bernstein

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?



In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its... Read more

America's Hidden History

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Sam Freed & Kenneth C. Davis

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation’s fate hung in the balance.

Spanning a period... Read more

The Thirteen American Arguments

By: Howard Fineman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Fineman, one of our most trusted political journalists, shows that every debate, from our nation’s founding to the present day, is rooted in one of thirteen arguments that–thankfully–defy resolution. It is the very process of never-ending argument, Fineman explains, that defines us, inspires us, and keeps us free. At a time when most... Read more

The Last Day

By: Nicholas Shrady

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe.



Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake,... Read more

Isarflimmern - Abridged

By: Willy Michl

Narrated by: Willy Michl

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Indianer kann nicht nur aus der weiten Prärie zwischen Norddakota und Wyoming stammen, er kann auch im wilden Bergland zwischen Sylvenstein und München geboren worden sein ¿ dort, wo das Isarflimmern seinen Ursprung hat. Willy Michl beschreibt Erlebnisse, die sein Leben entscheidend beeinflussten. Willy Michl, 1950 in München geboren, kam... Read more

Reappraisals

By: Tony Judt

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become “history” at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make... Read more

In Nixon's Web

By: Ed Gray & L. Patrick Gray III

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate's most shocking acts—Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate... Read more

The Man Who Made Lists

By: Joshua Kendall

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Mark Roget—polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado—was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues—not to mention a host of female admirers. But, most notably, Roget made lists.



From the age of eight, Roget kept these lists... Read more

The Shawnees and the War for America

By: Colin Calloway

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth professor of history and American Indian studies, is the series editor for The Penguin Library of American Indian History. Rich in detail and highly readable, this compelling narrative portrays the Shawnees' valiant struggle to maintain their way of life. "A remarkably accessible distillation of... Read more

McMafia

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. 

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and... Read more

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - Abridged

By: George Johnson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.

Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious... Read more

McMafia - Abridged

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the... Read more

Ladies of Liberty - Abridged

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

“This collection succeeds in emphasizing that many unsung women left their mark well before the suffrage movement.” —Publishers WeeklyFans of #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts, also a celebrated journalist for ABC and NPR, will love this stunning nonfiction picture book, as will parents and educators looking for a more in-depth... Read more

America 1908

By: Jim Rasenberger

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned historian Jim Rasenberger turns his keen eye on America at the dawn of the 20th century-a time when innovation seemed to know no bounds. "Rasenberger renders 1908 as a series of snapshots, and his camera never blinks."-Publishers Weekly Read more

The Practice of Settlement, Finding a Sense of Place

By: John Lane

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lane drew a circle on a map that represented a one-mile radius from his home, and explored every facet of the place including the topography, history, ancient and current citizenry, and industry. This exploration sharpened his sense of place and serves as a model for how we might look at our own homes, terrain, and communities. Read more

Bad Money

By: Kevin Phillips

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes the full measure of this crisis. They are a part... Read more

Playing With the Enemy

By: Gary Moore

Narrated by: Toby Moore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time. Before that could happen, though, WWII intervened. Gene's story, a surprising paean to the power and humanity of a game, is told here by his son, a first-time author... Read more