History audiobooks

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen, Roscoe Lee Browne, Beulah Quo, Rob...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

The Duel

By: John Lukacs

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One is poised on the edge of victory, the other threatened by invasion and defeat yet holding on, his own life in the balance and also that of the free world. 
 
In his reconstruction of the 80 days from May 10 to July 31, 1940, the author shows just how close England came to losing the war. He paints Churchill as resolute, threatened from... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the POUM militia to fight against the Fascists.In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Peter the Great

By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 43 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more

Grass Crown - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: F. Murray Abraham

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the captivating bestseller
THE FIRST MAN IN ROME...
the timeless saga of power, passion
and conflict of Ancient Rome continues...

The magnificent glory of Republican Rome is threatened when a struggle for power erupts among the men who shaped its hard-won peace. At its center are two extraordinary leaders: Gaius Marius,... Read more

Retrospective on the Gulf

By: Neal Conan

Narrated by: Neal Conan

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It was phenomenally successful in the air, strikingly decisive on the ground—and suddenly the war in the Persian Gulf was over, with an overwhelming victory for the allied forces. But what really happened? Why did the air war work so well? Why did the massive, allied casualties many predicted for the ground phase never materialize? Why was it... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

The Prize - Abridged

By: Daniel Yergin

Narrated by: Bob Jamieson

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.

Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts... Read more

The Next Century

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: E.G. Marshall

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What can we learn from the events of the 20th century? David Halberstam set out to answer that question in this perceptive and eye-opening work which examines the past in order to determine the future. From the rise of the Japanese economy to the startling changes that reshaped the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Halberstam argues that the... Read more

The American Heritage History of the Civil War

By: Bruce Catton

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Infinitely absorbing, Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume.“America needed its great war of brothers,” wrote Bruce Catton, “to weld in a terrible fire what had been and what might be. The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 41 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century.His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our... Read more

A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln

By: David Adler

Narrated by: Melinda Herring

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"This presentation of the pertinent facts of the life, times, and importance of the sixteenth president of the United States is a good starting point for children beginning history studies and biographies." - School Library Journal Read more

A Picture Book of George Washington

By: David Adler

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"A lively fife and drum playing Yankee-Doodle-Dandy welcome the listener...A narrative tone that is sincere and respectful and a slow, even pace afford the young listener time to absorb facts." - AudioFile Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert H. Ferrell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty,... Read more

The Second World War

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 43 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, here offers a complete history of World War II.It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day—August 14, 1945—it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be,... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 2

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 36 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an... Read more

The Long Gray Line - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Bruce Weitz

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping look at the cadets of West Point whose dedication to duty was not honored by the country they served. Young men who dream of heroes look to West Point and to a career of serving their country. The class of 1966 was no exception, but these cadets faced greater challenges than any earlier generation could have imagined. Thirty of them... Read more