History audiobooks

The Age of Sacred Terror

By: Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations

From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam... Read more

Sleeping With the Devil - Abridged

By: Robert Baer

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and... Read more

Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek... Read more

Intelligence in War

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence.

In... Read more

Franklin and Winston

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
 
“Intense and compelling... Read more

There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere

By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile... Read more

Horatio's Drive

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns & Tom Hanks

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.

In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who... Read more

Benjamin Franklin - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more

Treason - Abridged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”

In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more

Living History - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword​​

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor... Read more

The Cruelest Miles - Abridged

By: Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury

Narrated by: Margot Dionne

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The... Read more

Visions From a Foxhole - Abridged

By: William Foley

Narrated by: Jim Soreiro

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II

Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent straight to the front lines, arriving January 25, 1945–just in... Read more

I Am Alive! - Abridged

By: Charles Jackson & Major Bruce H. Norton

Narrated by: John Henry Cox

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a prisoner... Read more

Coal

By: Barbara Freese

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of... Read more

The Path Between the Seas - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the... Read more

General Ike - Abridged

By: John Eisenhower

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.

General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more

Perfect Enough

By: George Anders

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bestselling work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner George Anders presents a behind-the-scenes account of a struggle that rocked Wall Street and stunned the computer industry.

When Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she was venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men’s... Read more

The Teammates

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Tate Donovan

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shares the moving story of four baseball players and the friendships they forged as teammates—and the impact they had off the field. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years... Read more

Hallowed Ground - Abridged

By: James M. McPherson

Narrated by: James M. McPherson

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.

The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more

Into Africa - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more

A Patriot's Handbook

By: author

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy & Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Caroline Kennedy shares an inspiring collection of patriotic poems, song lyrics, historical documents, and speeches.The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a blockbuster success, remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for 15 weeks with more than 500,000 copies in print. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares with readers an... Read more

Reefer Madness

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Eric Schlosser

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- or more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise.... Read more

In the Company of Heroes - Abridged

By: Michael Durant & Steven Hartov

Narrated by: Michael Durant

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ranger, Ranger, you die Somalia!" shouted the enraged Somali voices surrounding Blackhawk helicopter pilot Michael J. Durant, his bird shot down by a well-placed rocket-propelled grenade. With his devastating injuries, Durant would be lucky to survive the night.
"Mike Durant...Mike Durant..." came the disembodied voice floating above the... Read more