History audiobooks

The Day of Battle

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 32 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.

In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two... Read more

The Dispensable Nation

By: Vali Nasr

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.

Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan and Pakistani affairs. In The... Read more

How Canada Won the Great War

By: Robert Child

Narrated by: Colin McLean

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This Canadian military history story details the rise of Citizen soldier, Sir Arthur Currie. For 100 years Canada's role in ending WWI sooner than anyone thought possible has gone largely unrecognized. The Canadian Corp on the Western Front in WWI led by Currie, became the premiere allied fighting force. The fact that Canada was not yet a... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1861-1862

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as "the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial." Publishers Weekly also notes, "The book need not be heard... Read more

Trident K9 Warriors

By: Mike Ritland & Gary Brozek

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller featured on 60 Minutes, this is the first book to take readers inside the world of elite Navy SEAL dogs.

As Seen on "60 Minutes"!

As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company... Read more

The King of Infinite Space

By: David Berlinski

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics.



In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski... Read more

Paris to the Pyrenees

By: David Downie

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—an 1,100-year-old network of trails leading to the... Read more

Letter from Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a non-violent tension so severe that the powers that be would be forced to address... Read more

Discovering the City of Sodom

By: Dr. Steven Collins & Dr. Latayne C. Scott

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities.Like many modern-day Christians, Dr. Steven Collins struggled with what seemed to be a clash between his belief in the Bible and the research regarding ancient history—a crisis of faith that inspired him to put both his education and the Bible to the... Read more

Storm Kings

By: Lee Sandlin

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster -- the super cell tornado -- that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America. Read more

The Democracy Project

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America, from the co-author of The Dawn of Everything

Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But... Read more

The Undivided Past

By: David Cannadine

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict.Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference—religion, nation, class, gender, race, and... Read more

The Alchemists

By: Neil Irwin

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet... Read more

The Alchemists

By: Neil Irwin

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet... Read more

The Third Coast

By: Thomas Dyja

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern AmericaThough today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in... Read more

When Elephants Fight

By: Eric Walters & Adrian Bradbury

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. This ancient proverb of the Kikuyu people, a tribal group in Kenya, Africa, is as true today as when the words were first spoken, perhaps thousands of years ago. Its essence is simplicity--when the large fight, it is the small who suffer most. And when it comes to war, the smallest, the most... Read more

The Great Deformation

By: David A. Stockman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored, by outspoken former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David StockmanDavid Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the United States government. It... Read more

Heroes for My Son

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Steve Stratton

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Brad Meltzer's first son was born eight years ago, the bestselling writer and new father started compiling a list of heroes whose virtues and talents he wanted to share with his son: Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Jim Henson, Amelia Earhart, Muhammad Ali . . . and so many more, each one an ordinary person who was able to achieve the... Read more

A Tour of Saint Peter's Square and Basilica

By: Jeffrey Kirby, S.T.L.

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kirby, S.T.L.

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Comprehensive Tour In this course, Father Kirby takes a look at the history and artwork of St. Peter's Square and Basilica through the light of faith. This comprehensive tour explains why St. Peter's Basilica was significant to the early Christians, and why it is still significant today.
"Ecco Roma"
Just as the ancient pilgrims exclaimed, "Ecco... Read more

The Healing Cell

By: Dr. Robin L. Smith, Tomasz Trafny & Dr. Max Gomez

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Healing Cell is an easy to read, carefully researched, and clear-eyed view of medicine many decades in the making that is now paying off with treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns, and stop the march of such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig's... Read more

The Borgias

By: G. J. Meyer

Narrated by: Enn Reitel

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance... Read more

Orphan Train Rider

By: Andrea Warren

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the... Read more

From Moonshine to Armadillos - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Kenneth Threadgill, others & Wi...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Veteran award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour-long program outlining the history of Threadgill's and Armadillo World Headquarters, their contribution to the birth of the Austin music scene, and their influence on the Nashville sound and country rock."This program offers a soup to nuts history of Austin's growth into the live... Read more

Those Angry Days

By: Lynne Olson

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

At the center of the debate over American intervention in World War II stood the two most famous men in America: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who championed the interventionist cause, and aviator Charles Lindbergh, who as unofficial leader and spokesman for America's isolationists emerged as the president's most formidable adversary. Their... Read more