History audiobooks

End of Days

By: James L. Swanson

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride. Swanson takes us to the sixth-floor Texas Book Depository... Read more

The Right Path

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: George Newbern & Joe Scarborough

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Scarborough—former Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe—takes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative but pragmatic leadership of Dwight Eisenhower and... Read more

The Man He Became

By: James Tobin

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at the age of thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he regained his strength and seized the presidency.



This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American... Read more

The Men Who Lost America

By: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 21 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the... Read more

Raggin', Jazzin', Rockin'

By: Susan VanHecke

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2012 American Library Association Notable Children's Book. 2012 YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Nominee. Meet the inventors and innovators who defined American music history. A radio repairman named Leo Fender imagined a solid-body electric guitar. The inventor of 3-D glasses, Laurens Hammond, envisioned an electric... Read more

The Flu of 1918

By: Jessica Rudolph

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Describes the 1918 influenza (sometimes called the Spanish influenza), explaining the causes of the disease, how it affects the body, and how it became a pandemic. Read more

Farmer George Plants a Nation

By: Peggy Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

George Washington as he's rarely seen. Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also... Read more

Flappers

By: Judith Mackrell

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Glamorised, mythologised and demonised - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: it focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah... Read more

Elizabeth of York

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a... Read more

World War I

By: Sir Tony Robinson

Narrated by: Sir Tony Robinson

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders World War I Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's history, but not as we know it!

Find out everything you ever needed to know about World War I in this... Read more

Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire

By: Terry Deary

Narrated by: Mitch Benn

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history.

The Romans have long been held up as one of the... Read more

American Heroes

By: Oliver North

Narrated by: Peyton Tochterman & Oliver North

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes Proved, a moving collection of “straightforward, honest testimonials to the courage American troops display on and off the battlefield” (Kirkus Reviews).

For more than a dozen years, combat-decorated Marine Oliver North and his award-winning documentary team from FOX News Channel’s War Stories... Read more

The Heart of Everything That Is

By: Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).

Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms.... Read more

Honor and Betrayal

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor comes the riveting behind-the-scenes story of the three Navy SEALs who captured the "Butcher of Fallujah" and, having been charged with prisoner abuse, their long road to justice.On a daring nighttime raid in September 2009, a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the notorious terrorist... Read more

This Land That I Love

By: John Shaw

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A narrative history of the writing of "This Land Is Your Land" and "God Bless America" that uncovers the conflicts and common ground between two classic patriotic songsFebruary, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in... Read more

Dr. J

By: Julius Erving & Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: Julius Erving

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A terrific memoir by a man worthy of one.” — Sports IllustratedAn honest, unflinching self-portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses, which he describes here—from his own point of view—for the very first time.For most of his life, Julius Erving has... Read more

George Washington's Secret Six

By: Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger

Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the cohost of Fox & Friends, the true story of the anonymous spies who helped win the Revolutionary War
 
Among the pantheon of heroes of the American Revolution, six names are missing. First and foremost, Robert Townsend, an unassuming and respected businessman from Long Island, who spearheaded the spy ring that covertly brought down the... Read more

Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

By: Steven M. Gillon

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Gillon follows Lee Harvey Oswald for the 48 hours after the Kennedy assassination in search of answers to the question that has been troubling America for the past five decades: Why did he shoot JFK? The Warren Commission speculated that Oswald was simply a deranged sociopath. But recently declassified materials raise new troubling... Read more

The Bully Pulpit

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 36 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in... Read more

Magnificent Delusions

By: Husain Haqqani

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A character-driven history that describes the bizarrely ill-suited alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the USThe relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension, and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a... Read more

Hatching Twitter

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Daniel May

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent

The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing... Read more

The Trident

By: Jason Redman & John Bruning

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. But his journey was not without its supreme challenges. He was critically wounded in 2007 when he was struck by machine-gun fire at point blank range. During his... Read more

Vanished

By: Wil S. Hylton

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water-- but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet... Read more

The Aviators

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of... Read more