History audiobooks

My Tank Is Fight!

By: Zack Parsons

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis, and a riveting fictionalized account of the invention's success or failure on the battlefield.



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Cry Havoc!

By: Nelson D. Lankford

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In early March 1861, civil war loomed. By late April, Americans had begun to kill their fellow citizens. Cry Havoc! recounts in riveting detail the events that divided the states and reveals how quirks of timing, character, and place all conspired to transform the nation into a battlefield. Nelson Lankford, author of Richmond Burning,... Read more

A Needle in the Right Hand of God

By: R. Howard Bloch

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of... Read more

From Midnight to Dawn

By: Hettie Jones & Jacqueline L. Tobin

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff - Abridged

By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew & Annette L. Drew

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for... Read more

Grant and Sherman - Abridged

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Charles Bracelen Flood

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each... Read more

American Bloomsbury

By: Susan Cheever

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, controversial, and fascinating biography of those who were, in the mid-nineteenth century, the center of American thought and literature.



Concord, Massachusetts, 1849. At various times, three houses on the same road were home to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and John Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa May, Nathanial... Read more

The Fourth Horseman

By: Robert Koenig

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Anton Dilger brings to life a missing chapter in U.S. history and shows, dramatically, that the Great European War was in fact being fought on the home front years before we formally joined it. The doctor who grew anthrax and other bacteria in that rented house was an American-the son of a Medal of Honor winner who fought at... Read more

Thomas Hardy

By: Claire Tomalin

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.



Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to his rural stories, starting with Far from the Madding Crowd, and making them classics. But his true legacy is that of a progressive thinker. When he... Read more

American Notes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him – already a successful author in both Britain and the U.S. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the... Read more

Arc of Justice

By: Kevin Boyle

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Highly esteemed history professor, author and editor, Kevin Boyle was presented with the National Book Award for this stunning literary achievement. Arc of Justice artfully captures a tumultuous period in American history as it tells a shocking story of violence and racial strife. The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an... Read more

Death in the Afternoon

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he... Read more

Bradley

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Known by his troops in World War II as “The GI General” because of his close identification with the men under his command, Omar Bradley commanded the Twelfth US Army Group in Europe. By the spring of 1945, this group contained four field armies, twelve corps, forty-eight divisions, and more than 1.3 million men, the largest exclusively American... Read more

Josephine

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When, in 1804, Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband Napoleon to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial façade. To her subjects, she appeared to be the most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who... Read more

A Child of Fortune

By: Jeffrey St. John

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry’s... Read more

The Bureau

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bureau takes listeners behind the scenes of the FBI, from its creation in 1908 to the scandals of present day. Based on exclusive interviews, Kessler reveals the inside story surrounding the events of September 11 and the investigation into the anthrax mailings. The Bureau delves deep within the agency, presenting the organization in its... Read more

Mussolini

By: Jasper Ridley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascism: Benito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writers—and their wives. From his early years, raised in the traditions of... Read more

String of Pearls

By: Priscilla Buckley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Priscilla Buckley is probably best known as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded by her brother, William F. Buckley Jr. But in String of Pearls, we meet young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, the United Press Radio News Department’s fresh and eager fledgling employee. The atmosphere in UP’s New York... Read more

Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty

By: Jeffrey St. John

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this “eyewitness account” of America's first Federal elections, the First Congress, and the creation of the Bill of Rights. In a swift-moving and colorful chronicle written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, listeners will discover how Madison... Read more

Gallant Lady

By: Ken Henry & Don Keith

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Archerfish, a diesel powered Balao-class submarine crafted in the 1940s, won a unique, heroic place in military history and the memories of her crew members. Here is her story; from her assembly in New England and her dedication by Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal secretary, to her service in World War II, where she broke the back of the... Read more

Ten Hours until Dawn

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and... Read more

Michael and Natasha

By: Rosemary Crawford & Donald Crawford

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Everything was wrong…yet for Michael, it was love at first sight—an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by... Read more

Patton

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the... Read more

Grant

By: John Mosier

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this addition to the Palgrave Great Generals Series, John Mosier brings to life the brilliant military strategist Ulysses S. Grant. A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming president of the re-united states. Grant revolutionized military... Read more