History audiobooks

Blood Diamonds

By: Greg Campbell

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood DiamondFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the... Read more

Tales of the Alhambra

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping... Read more

Men of Fire

By: Jack Hurst

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1862, Ulysses S. Grant achieved what President Lincoln had sought since the start of the war: the first decisive Union victory. Fought on the western edge of the theater, the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign was a gruesome omen of what was to come.Grant, until then an obscure brigadier general with a reputation for drink, became the fighting... Read more

Room Full of Mirrors

By: Charles R. Cross

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women’s hearts, and the status quo. In this groundbreaking account, music journalist Charles R. Cross takes a far deeper look. Beyond Hendrix’s legendary onstage and offstage magnetism and his excessive lifestyle was a man who struggled to... Read more

Inhuman Bondage

By: David Brion Davis

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding... Read more

The Devil Came on Horseback

By: Brian Steidle

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Devil Came on Horsebackis an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of violent Darfur and a call to action by a former American marine who became a military observer for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan, itleads us through the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on... Read more

Honor & Glory

By: Kim Murphy

Narrated by: Dianna Dorman

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this continuation of Kim Murphy's Civil War trilogy, sisters Amanda and Alice struggle to reconcile political and family loyalties.Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for... Read more

Wolf of the Deep

By: Stephen Fox

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In July 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took command of a secret new warship. At the helm of the Alabama, he became the most hated and feared man along the Union coast, as well as a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority, depth, and a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox describes Captain... Read more

Hero Tales

By: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of... Read more

To Herat and Cabul

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When sixteen-year-old Angus Campbell finds himself orphaned and his life at risk, he leaves Tabriz and makes his way to Teheran to seek employment with the British ambassador there. His knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, and Pushtoo secures him a post as a secretary for Mr. M'Neill. Resourceful and intrepid, he soon finds himself... Read more

The Worst Journey in the World

By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a... Read more

Gullible’s Travels

By: Cash Peters

Narrated by: Cash Peters

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America visiting some of the tackiest attractions in the world for his hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. But a guy can only take so much. Now, as Peters prepares to leave his travel-reporting days behind forever, he takes us along on some of the more... Read more

The Big Three in Economics

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views... Read more

The Life of Robert E. Lee

By: Mary L. Williamson

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying... Read more

The Truth about Muhammad

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam—perhaps the first such portrait in half a century—unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect our world... Read more

Amelia Earhart

By: Jane Moore Howe

Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that Amelia Earhart built her own roller coaster before she was ten years old? And what do you suppose happened to her while she was exploring a spooky cave and sledding down a steep, icy hill? Find the answers and share all of Amelia Earhart’s childhood adventures in this volume of the Young Patriots Series.Praised by parents,... Read more

After Fidel

By: Brian Latell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compelling, behind-the-scenes account, former top CIA officer and Cuba expert Brian Latell examines the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel’s younger brother, Raul. Exploring the brothers’ remarkable relationship, he reveals how Fidel and Raul have collaborated, divided responsibilities, and... Read more

Lew Wallace

By: Martha E. Schaaf

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lew Wallace gained world-wide fame as the author of the bestselling novel Ben-Hur. But did you know that as a boy, he played hooky from school? Governor, foreign minister, Civil War general, inventor, artist, and author, Lew Wallace spent his boyhood in the fields and rivers of his native Midwest. Join Lew as he rescues his baby brother from... Read more

Juliette Low

By: Helen Boyd Higgins

Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Share the childhood adventures of the young girl from Savannah, Georgia, who would grow up to found the Girl Scouts®. “Daisy” Gordon would rather climb a tree and ride a horse than learn to dance and sew. “There’s not one thing I can’t do that boys can,” said Daisy, and the organization she created years later proved her words.Praised by... Read more

James Whitcomb Riley

By: Minnie Belle Mitchell & Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie," "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling... Read more

Martin Luther, the Lion-Hearted Reformer

By: J. A. Morrison

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of history written subsequently to his day."—from the... Read more

The Story of Liberty

By: Charles C. Coffin

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Does America still have a rendezvous with destiny? Is there yet a generation to come forth from this nation which will turn the hearts of not only its countrymen back to the living God, but the heart of the world as well?Charles C. Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, reaches back into the records of history to observe... Read more

Sufferings in Africa

By: Captain James Riley

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.This dramatic account of Captain... Read more