History audiobooks

King For Kids: School and Family Edition - Abridged

By: Clayborne Carson

Narrated by: Martin Luther King Jr.

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the first time, an edition of Martin Luther King's most important speeches and selected sermons are assembled specifically for school-age-children and families to listen to together.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of American history. In the 1950s and 1960s,... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Rider Strong

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lorenzo de Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria, Niccolo Machiavelli, which set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. Suddenly finding himself without a job after 14 years of patriotic service, Machiavelli set a precedent for many... Read more

FDR’s Folly

By: Jim Powell

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Think FDR was a great president? Think again.The Great Depression and the New Deal—for generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression's destructive effects... Read more

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

By: Cornelia Otis Skinner & Emily Kimbrough

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"To know Emily is to enhance one's days with gaiety, charm and occasional terror."—Cornelia Otis Skinner of her coauthor, Emily KimbroughActress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Some of the more... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East

By: Martin Sieff

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Think all the trouble in the Middle East started with the birth of Israel? Guess again.In this informative, iconoclastic book, veteran foreign correspondent Martin Sieff offers a jaw-dropping survey of the history and politics of a region that people know surprisingly little about, even though it's never off the front pages of the newspapers.The... Read more

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. Read more

Head and Heart

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 19 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush.



The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country's history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and... Read more

The Race Beat

By: Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation in the South – and the brutality used to enforce it. It is the story of how the nation’s press, after decades of ignoring the problem,... Read more

Free Lunch - Abridged

By: David Cay Johnston

Narrated by: David Cay Johnston

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé. Read more

Jane Boleyn

By: Julia Fox

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and... Read more

Bad Samaritans

By: Ha-Joon Chang

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

With irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of real-life examples, Ha-Joon Chang blasts holes in the “World Is Flat” orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other neo-liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang... Read more

Jane Boleyn - Abridged

By: Julia Fox

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and... Read more

The Fighting 69th

By: Sean Michael Flynn

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of September 11, 2001, New York City’s famous National Guard regiment, the fighting 69th Infantry, was not fit for duty. Most of its soldiers were immigrant kids with no prior military experience, their uniforms were incomplete, and their equipment was derelict. The thought of deploying such a unit was laughable. Sean Flynn, himself a... Read more

Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs

By: Barbara Mertz

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz combines a doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt. Her love of the subject is contagious and makes her the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those... Read more

The Native African American Cultural Development Guide

By: Georgette Georgette

Narrated by: TJ Pryor-Wells

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Washington D.C., during his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, Dr. Martin L. King Jr. introduced the world to his dream.  The passion of his dream was so intense that it still echoes throughout the World.  With a dream big enough to influence listeners for over four decades, do you ever wonder what became of the children of the dream?  The... Read more

George H. W. Bush

By: Timothy Naftali

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for his eloquence, Bush readily dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, there was no person of his generation better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely shepherded Soviet reformers... Read more

The Ghost Mountain Boys

By: James Campbell

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site... Read more

Charlie Wilson’s War - Abridged

By: George Crile

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.In the early 1980s, after a Houston... Read more

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground. HOG PILOTS, BLUE WATER GRUNTS provides not only a ground-level portrait of the Global War on Terrorism on several continents, but also a gritty firsthand account of how U.S. soldiers,... Read more

Mirage

By: Nina Burleigh

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation–and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt.

It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific... Read more

House of Abraham

By: Stephen Berry

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For all the talk of the Civil War "pitting brother against brother," until now there has never been a single book that traces the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the... Read more

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3

By: Edward Gibbon

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 39 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its grand scope and considerable accuracy. It is a remarkable survey of what the author calls "the greatest and, perhaps, most awful scene in the history of mankind."This... Read more

The Nuclear Jihadist

By: Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of... Read more

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Narrated by: Kirk Jordan

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky’s defense of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khymer Rouge, as well as his bizarre associations with Holocaust revisionists, may surprise those who think they know what he believes. Other Chomsky views, such as his claim that the United States has taken the place of Nazi Germany on the world stage, will be more familiar. With Chomskyism... Read more