Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
In the Company of Heroes - Abridged
By: Michael Durant & Steven Hartov
Narrated by: Michael Durant
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Ranger, Ranger, you die Somalia!" shouted the enraged Somali voices surrounding Blackhawk helicopter pilot Michael J. Durant, his bird shot down by a well-placed rocket-propelled grenade. With his devastating injuries, Durant would be lucky to survive the night.
"Mike Durant...Mike Durant..." came the disembodied voice floating above the... Read more
The Hill Fights - Abridged
By: Edward F. Murphy
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more
View audiobook
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
By: Alan Cutler
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Read more
View audiobook
Of Paradise and Power
By: Robert Kagan
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Kagan forces both sides to see... Read more
View audiobook
The Majesty of the Law - Abridged
By: Sandra Day O'Connor
Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more
View audiobook
What Kind of Nation
By: James F. Simon
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than 150 years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic... Read more
View audiobook
To Conquer the Air - Abridged
By: James Tobin
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.
For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in... Read more
The Crisis of Islam
By: Bernard Lewis
Narrated by: Bernard Lewis
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia,... Read more
View audiobook
Power Failure - Abridged
By: Mimi Swartz & Sherron Watkins
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.”
Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that... Read more
Hallowed Ground
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
Sleeping with the Devil
By: Robert Baer
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”
In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No... Read more
Platoon Leader - Abridged
By: James R. McDonough
Narrated by: Joel Rooks
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'
"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more
Five Years to Freedom - Abridged
By: James N. Rowe
Narrated by: Reathel Bean
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die.... Read more
Blood on the Risers - Abridged
By: John Leppelman
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.
As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... Read more
13 Cent Killers - Abridged
By: John Culbertson
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”
In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more
Supreme Command
By: Eliot A. Cohen
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show, the politicians or the generals?In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen, Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and... Read more
View audiobook
William McKinley
By: Kevin Phillips
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of... Read more
Grover Cleveland
By: Henry F. Graff
Narrated by: Ira Claffey
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of... Read more
Theodore Roosevelt
By: Louis Auchincloss
Narrated by: Ira Claffey
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century
The warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt's involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated, military career, and his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose", Roosevelt was in fact a man of... Read more
Longitudes and Attitudes - Abridged
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after.
As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most... Read more
Lost in America
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy when I was small, because it sounded American and that is how he so desperately wanted things to... Read more
View audiobook
Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 5
By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum
Narrated by: Yossef Brami
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - Quand Bouni devint Nakdimon2 - Le gouverneur qui ne gouverna plus3 - Pour l'amour de la Torah (histoire de Hillel Ha Zaken)4 - Le miracle de Kippour Read more
View audiobook
Captured by Indians
By: Mary Rowlandson
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson's village. Most were killed. "The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same through the bowels of my dear child in my arms." This marvelous reading of her account, descriptive and mindful of the will of God, is a very powerful audiobook. Mary White was... Read more
View audiobook
Sea of Glory
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.
A New York Times Notable Book
America's first frontier was not the... Read more