History audiobooks

The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

By: Glenn Thrush & Jonathan Martin

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account of the race for the presidency. The End of the Line follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams go all-in to win in the critical final weeks of the 2012 election.
 
From Mitt... Read more

Amazing People of Russia - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Russia is the largest country in the world and covers more than one eighth of the globe's inhabited land mass. So, it stands to reason that it has been home to many amazing people. The Amazing People Club takes you on a virtual historical journey into the lives of some of these inspirational contributors to this nation. Famous for her many... Read more

Farewell

By: Sergei Kostin & Eric Raynaud

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.”Vladimir... Read more

Rise to Greatness

By: David Von Drehle

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union’s top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield—had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the... Read more

Rose

By: Rosina Harrison

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, entertained royalty, and traveled the world. "She's not a lady as you would understand a lady" was the butler's ominous warning. But what... Read more

Freedom National

By: James Oakes

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but... Read more

Upon the Head of the Goat

By: Aranka Siegal

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1939, nine-year-old Piri is happy to spend her spring vacation at her grandmother Babi's house in the Ukrainian countryside. There, Piri freely enjoys the meadows, rivers and wildflowers. In her busy household, Babi makes sure her granddaughter continues to speak Yiddish and observe the Sabbath. But there is a darker side to this paradise.... Read more

Venice

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding new portrait of one of the world’s most beloved cities, from the author of IstanbulLa Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel... Read more

Civil War Reminiscences by Those Who Were There

By: Wetware Media

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of remarkable personal accounts of a variety of American Civil War incidents, from both Union and Confederate perspectives. These vivid and absorbing reminiscences provide an inside view of many fascinating events of the time, shedding light on our shared past and illuminating the character and point of view of those who... Read more

The Emancipation Proclamation

By: Abraham Lincoln

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863. Now, to commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Proclamation, here is a new, unabridged audio recording of that historic... Read more

Living With Honor

By: Salvatore Giunta

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs & Salvatore Giunta

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling memoir from a true hero—an ordinary man who joined the army and became one of the few living persons to ever be awarded the celebrated Medal of Honor.

Medal of Honor winner Staff Sergeant “Sal” Giunta’s empowering memoir describes a boy working at a Subway shop who was attracted to an Army recruiting center by a free T-shirt, but... Read more

Brothers

By: George Howe Colt

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 18 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

George Howe Colt believes that he would be an entirely different man had he not grown up in a family of four brothers. In Brothers, he movingly recounts the adoration, envy, rivalry, affection, anger, and compassion in their shifting relationships from childhood through middle age.

In alternate chapters, Colt moves from a quest to understand how... Read more

Drinking Water

By: James Salzman

Narrated by: Lee Hahn

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs... Read more

Games without Rules

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more

The Great Pearl Heist

By: Molly Caldwell Crosby

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London’s perpetual smoggy dusk, two brilliant minds are pitted against each other—a celebrated gentleman thief and a talented Scotland Yard detective—in the greatest jewel heist of the new century. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls, worth more than the Hope Diamond, has been bought by a Hatton... Read more

1775

By: Kevin Phillips

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 25 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the year we have long commemorated as America’s defining moment was in fact misleading? What if the real events that signaled the historic shift from colony to country took place earlier, and that the true story of our nation’s emergence reveals a more complicated—and divisive—birth process?In this major new work, iconoclastic historian... Read more

Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his... Read more

We Hold These Truths

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortimer Adler devoted a lifetime to studying the great ideas of Western culture and explaining even the most difficult concepts to the average citizen, earning Time magazine's praise as a "philosopher for everyman." In We Hold These Truths, Dr. Adler caps his life's work by illuminating the ideas and ideals that have made the United States of... Read more

If I Die in a Combat Zone

By: Tim O'Brien

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood... Read more

Wiki Wissen - Die Geschichte Bayerns

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Lukas Schenk

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Wiki Wissen - kompaktes Wissen für Unterwegs präsentiert: Die Geschichte Bayerns. Von der Entstehung Bayerns, über das bayerische Stammherzogtum, König Ludwig bis hin zum modernen Bayern nach 1945. Lassen Sie sich überraschen! Read more

Life is a Gift

By: Tony Bennett

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautiful and rich New York Times bestselling retrospective, the entertainment icon shares with his fans the life lessons he has learned throughout a career that spanned six decades. Illustrated with Bennett’s own hand-drawn artwork, Life Is a Gift is a work that will captivate, delight, and be cherished by fans and music lovers of all... Read more

Churchill

By: James C. Humes

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain’s most famous prime minister and how his critics’ perceptions of them shaped his political career. Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have... Read more

James Madison

By: Jeff Broadwater

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the... Read more

Chancellorsville

By: Stephen W. Sears

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War. Using scores of letters and diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate armies, Sears' narrative history seeks to strip away the gloss of later commentary... Read more