History audiobooks
Winston Churchill
By: John Keegan
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Keegan is] the best military historian of the world."—Tom Clancy
When today’s world leaders require inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often invoke Winston Churchill. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a solider early in life. At this he succeeded brilliantly, fighting... Read more
The Age of Gold - Abridged
By: H. W. Brands
Narrated by: Brian Mancinelli
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN
THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH.
When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was sparsely... Read more
William F. Buckley: Nuremberg
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Author William F. Buckley tells the story of young German-American Sebastian Reinhardt who served as an interpreter during the Nuremberg trials of 1945 in his novel Nuremberg: the Reckoning. In this interview, Buckley discusses the synergy of fact and fiction in the novel, performing research, the impact of the trials, and more. Read more
View audiobookAmerican Studies - Abridged
By: Louis Menand
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Brilliant, surprising insights into America yesterday and today from the New York Times bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club. Read more
View audiobookThe Cell - Abridged
By: John Miller & Michael Stone
Narrated by: John Miller
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden... Read more
View audiobookA Ranger Born - Abridged
By: Robert W. Black
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s... Read more
View audiobookThe Raid - Abridged
By: Benjamin F. Schemmer
Narrated by: Dick Rodstein
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months... Read more
View audiobookA Long Way From Home
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation.
In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in... Read more
Arab and Jew
By: David K. Shipler
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
Length: 27 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Arab stereotype portrays the Jew as a brutal, violent coward. The Jewish stereotype portrays the Arab as a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental Pulitzer Prize–winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of these prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and... Read more
View audiobookWorld War II: Europe - Abridged
By: The History Channel
Narrated by: Fritz Weaver, Paul Sparer & Jack Perkins
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Relive history as the men who experienced the most intense battles of World WarII share their stories. The WWII Battle Classsic -- produced as major TV specials by Lou Reda Productions -- have been brilliantly adapted for this thirilling audio presentation. This is essential history, told by the eyewitness heroes who were there. World WarII:... Read more
View audiobookPicasso's War
By: Russell Martin
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Read more
View audiobookThe Demon in the Freezer
By: Richard Preston
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more
The Age of Gold
By: H. W. Brands
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN
THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH.
When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was sparsely... Read more
Lusitania - Abridged
By: Diana Preston
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A brilliantly sunny day, and then the explosion; on what had been an ordinary weekday, there is suddenly fire, smoke, confusion, bodies, panic...
On May 7, 1915, the ocean liner Lusitania was struck by a terrifying new weapon-and became a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. This is a vivid account of the event that shocked the world; of the... Read more
Master of the Senate - Abridged
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... Read more
The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta
Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Vintage Original
The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Napoleon
By: Paul Johnson
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bonaparte
In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivid look at the life of the strategist,... Read more
Roughing It
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way... Read more
View audiobookBeing American in a Changing World
By: Ronald Takaki
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence…belongs to all of us…as members of humanity." Read more
View audiobookRites of Passage - Abridged
By: Robert Peterson
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . .
Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols... Read more
Shadow Warriors
By: Tom Clancy & General Carl Stiner
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 21 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Teams of dedicated, highly specialized soldiers trained to a higher standard than regular forces; an armamentarium of advanced weapons and tactics; a variety of exotic, critical assignments for the good of the nation; in short, the U.S. Special Forces seem tailor-made for Tom Clancy, progenitor of the techno-thriller. In this factual account... Read more
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