History audiobooks

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

By: Joseph M. Marshall

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites.The men who led the battle—Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer—have become the stuff of legends, ingrained in the lore of the American West.Here award-winning Lakota historian Joseph... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more

The Great Raid

By: William B. Breuer

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Before General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of “I shall return” and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers had been held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp for more than thirty-three months. Emaciated and ill from brutal... Read more

Goodbye, Darkness

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young... 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 Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

By: Pat F. Garrett

Narrated by: Daniel Luna

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. It was first published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, "the bravest and most feared" gunman of the cattle war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. This book is at once the most... Read more

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

By: Benvenuto Cellini

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his own flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow... Read more

The Age of Lincoln

By: Orville Vernon Burton

Narrated by: Rich Mock

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations that was its most profound.America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism... Read more

The Atomic Bazaar

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production and the inexorable drift of nuclear-weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of... Read more

Marie Antoinette

By: Evelyne Lever

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Married for political reasons at the age of fourteen, Marie Antoinette was naïve, impetuous, and ill equipped for the role in which history cast her. From her birth in Vienna in 1755 through her turbulent, unhappy marriage, the bloody turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason (during which she was accused of incest), and her... Read more

Ser niño "huacho" en la historia de Chile (siglo XIX) (Completo)

By: Gabriel Salazar Vergara

Narrated by: Natalia Valdebenito & Marcelo Pintos

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Los textos que se reúnen en este libro dan cuenta de un continuo en escenarios distintos: niños pobres, huachos, los hijos de Rosaria hacia 1845, los hijos de Gregorio Ruiz hacia 1912, juan Machuca, de 14 años, hacia el 2000; todos ellos de laguna manera toman aquí la palabra para hablar de su cotidiano, de la suerte de sus padres, de su trabajo... Read more

Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys

By: Samuel Pepys

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669…is one of our greatest historical records and…a major work of English literature," writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson.A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. His diary provides... Read more

Laurel Canyon

By: Michael Walker

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. Starting with The Byrds in 1965, these musicians... Read more

The History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 22 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Thucydides’ classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BCE persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time. As one who actually participated in the conflict, Thucydides recognized the effect it would have on the history of Greece above all other wars. With a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and... Read more

Dorothy Parker

By: Marion Meade

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy Parker: a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts.In this lively,... Read more

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the... Read more

Attila

By: John Man

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years AD 434–454, the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man: Attila, king of the Huns. The decaying Roman Empire still stood astride the Western World, but it was threatened by a new force, the much-feared barbarian hordes. Attila was the one-man wrecking ball that helped put the final boot into Rome’s decaying splendor.Today,... Read more

The Heart of a Soldier

By: Kate Blaise & Dana White

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other.

Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who... Read more

The War That Made America

By: Fred Anderson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War-also known as the Seven Years' War-and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and... Read more

Jawbreaker

By: Gary Berntsen

Narrated by: Ralph Pezzullo & Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

Jawbreaker - Abridged

By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Gary Berntsen

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

The Divided Land

By: Theresa Lee

Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were... Read more

Flying Through Midnight

By: John T. Halliday

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War



Like Jarhead, We Were Soldiers Once..., and Young, John T. Halliday's combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying in the Vietnam War.



The year is 1970, and John T.... Read more