History audiobooks

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Bart D. Ehrman

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has sold in its millions. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book is all factually accurate. But is this claim true?As historian Bart D Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci... Read more

The Reformation

By: Patrick Collinson

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, "The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged." This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John... Read more

The Vinland Sagas

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

These two medieval Icelandic sagas tell one of the most astonishing stories in the history of exploration-the discovery of America by two Norsemen, Eirik the Red and Bjarni Herjolfsson, over 500 years before Christopher Columbus. A fascinating bit of history and a distinctive piece of world literature, The Vinland Sagas is the definitive record... Read more

President Reagan

By: Richard Reeves

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 25 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed presidential historian and best-selling author Richard Reeves comes an enlightening and informative biography of Americas 40th president, Ronald Reagan. Drawing from extensive notes, records, and letters, Reeves captures eight years in the Oval Office with this remarkably intimate portrait. Reagan was a bold president whose vision... Read more

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

By: Peniel E. Joseph

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality-the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed so much to begin a more vocal and radical push for social change in the 1960s and 1970s. "... a dramatic story,... Read more

Polio

By: David M. Oshinsky

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Notable Book author and acclaimed University of Texas professor David M. Oshinsky is a leading American political and cultural historian. Garnering the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History, this comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America’s relentless struggle against polio.As... Read more

Peoples and Empires

By: Anthony Pagden

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, listeners will find this work enjoyable and... Read more

War Stories

By: Oliver North

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, retired Marine Colonel Oliver L. North pens a provocative presentation of his experiences as a war correspondent for the FOX network during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Filled with vivid eye-witness accounts, this book follows the combat exploits of a Marine helicopter unit and an armored unit as they move... Read more

The Punch

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tearing open the deepest wound in professional sports, Feinstein uncovers the secrets of the NBA before and after that fateful moment in December of 1977 whe the face of professional hoops was changed forever. It was a chilly December evening and the Los Angeles Coliseum was buzzing as the Lakers hosted the Houston Rockets. As two players,... Read more

The Prince of the Marshes

By: Rory Stewart

Narrated by: Rory Stewart

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By... Read more

War, Peace, & All That Jazz

By: Joy Hakim

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans... Read more

War, Terrible War

By: Joy Hakim

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting and moving, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil.... Read more

Notes From China

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Rita Knox

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry."- Foreign Devils ... "Today, one cannot escape the impression that if only it were not for world pressures Maoist China like that of the Ming and the Manchus would be happier if it could... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1846, a young Harvard graduate named Francis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilized West. With his friend Quincy Adams Shaw, he traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Pawnee and the Sioux. Parkman's journal is an authentic record of life on the trail, an exciting eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers... Read more

Nixon and Mao

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today-the relationship between the United States and China-and one of the most significant moments... Read more

War Stories II

By: Oliver North

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, describes the remarkable accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II. The American and Japanese veterans of such terrible campaigns as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima shared their stories with North, who... Read more

Boys Who Rocked the World

By: Michelle Roehm McCann

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

What do King Tut, Galileo, Crazy Horse, Bruce Lee, Chico Mendes, Elvis Presley, Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, and the Dalai Lama all have in common? They each left their mark on the world in a big way-and all were boys or young men when they did! Did you know that King Tut was one of the youngest pharaohs ever to rule Ancient Egypt? If that sounds... Read more

Mosby's Men

By: John Alexander

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rare, exciting eyewitness account, a Confederate soldier reveals what life was really like on the battlefields of the Civil War. Lieutenant John Alexander tells how he joined Colonel Mosby and his infamous rough riders, how they managed their ventures behind enemy lines, and how they evaded capture by the Union troops. Read more

London

By: A.N. Wilson

Narrated by: Christopher Kay

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities. Acclaimed author A.N. Wilson starts at the beginning, when London was founded by the Romans, and continues to contemporary times, hitting all the historical highlights along the way. London is the perfect starter book for anyone wishing to understand this... Read more

Lone Star Rising

By: William C. Davis

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

No historian has been able to capture so elegantly the factors influencing the formation of the state of Texas. Three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, William C. Davis precisely describes the spirit of the times during this momentous period. The conflicts between Anglo Texans, native Tejanos, and Mexican officials that led to war come... Read more

Law in America

By: Lawrence M. Friedman

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence M. Friedman is Professor of Law at Stanford University and author of 23 books about law and legal history. Hailed as American law's greatest living historian, Friedman traces the evolution of America's legal system from the colonial period to the present. A Modern Library Chronicle, this book is concise, insightful, and graced with wit. Read more

Last Man Out

By: Melissa Fay Greene

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One evening in late October 1958, the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped"-its rock floors heaved up and smashed into rock ceilings. Most of the men on the shift perished. But nineteen men were trapped alive a mile below the earth's surface, struggling to survive without food, water, light, or fresh air. Almost a week passed without... Read more

Marie Therese, Child of Terror

By: Susan Nagel

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the cries she heard of her... Read more

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

By: James Boswell & Samuel Johnson

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer & Patrick Tull

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1773, an unlikely pair-a dominant figure of English literature and a young lawyer-set out on horseback to follow roads and cattle-trails across the Highlands to the Western Islands of Scotland. Their conversation and accounts are filled with curious detail, flashing wit and fascinating encounters with the high and low of the country. Read more