Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Don't Know Much About
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Dick Estell
- Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
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“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review
“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.
Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of “hidden history” about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War is the only audiobook you’ll ever need on “the war that never ended.”
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Don't Know Much About Series

Don't Know Much About the Civil War
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Dick Estell
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review
“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue,... Read more »

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition - Abridged
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Kenneth C. Davis, Zach McLarty & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Fun, engrossing, and significant. . . . History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Here, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its debut as a New York Times bestseller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook that changed the way we look at... Read more »

Don't Know Much About Geography
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, Paul Boehmer, Zach McLarty & Adenrele Ojo
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.
Was there an Atlantis?
What's the smallest country in the world?
What's the difference between a jungle and a rain forest?
Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About® the Civil War and Don't Know Much About®... Read more »

The Hidden History of America at War
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Mark Bramhall, Paul Boehmer & Kenneth C. Davis
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold tales that span our nation's history, from the Revolutionary War to... Read more »
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Don't Know Much About the Civil War - Abridged
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review
“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue,... Read more »

Don't Know Much About Anything - Abridged
By: Kenneth C. Davis & Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Entertainment and More! is a compendium of around 275 columns, sorted into the subject categories listed in the... Read more »
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Don't Know Much About History, 30th Anniversary Edition
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Kenneth C. Davis, Zach McLarty & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 29 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller
“Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!” —People magazine
From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this revised,... Read more »