History audiobooks
The Atomic Bazaar
By: William Langewiesche
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production and the inexorable drift of nuclear-weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of... Read more
View audiobookThe Age of Lincoln
By: Orville Vernon Burton
Narrated by: Rich Mock
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations that was its most profound.America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism... Read more
View audiobookThe Life of Robert E. Lee
By: Mary L. Williamson
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying... Read more
View audiobookThe Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 20 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a... Read more
View audiobookTo Herat and Cabul
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When sixteen-year-old Angus Campbell finds himself orphaned and his life at risk, he leaves Tabriz and makes his way to Teheran to seek employment with the British ambassador there. His knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, and Pushtoo secures him a post as a secretary for Mr. M'Neill. Resourceful and intrepid, he soon finds himself... Read more
View audiobookHero Tales
By: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of... Read more
View audiobookScott’s Last Expedition
By: Robert Falcon Scott
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 18 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Scott kept a detailed journal of his adventures until March 29, 1912, when he and the few remaining members of his team met their ends in a brutal... Read more
View audiobookSouth
By: Ernest Shackleton
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1911, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to lead the first expedition across Antarctica, the last unknown continent. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months, Shackleton fought a losing battle with the elements before the drifting ship was crushed, marooning him and his crew.This gripping... Read more
View audiobookTales of the Alhambra
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more
View audiobookThe English Governess at the Siamese Court
By: Anna Harriette Leonowens
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings... Read more
View audiobookThe Grand Slam
By: Mark Frost
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 19 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of the stock-market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports. In the summer of 1930, Bobby Jones, a twenty-eight-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, this natural, self-taught player conquered the British Amateur Championship, the... Read more
View audiobookAttila
By: John Man
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In the years AD 434–454, the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man: Attila, king of the Huns. The decaying Roman Empire still stood astride the Western World, but it was threatened by a new force, the much-feared barbarian hordes. Attila was the one-man wrecking ball that helped put the final boot into Rome’s decaying splendor.Today,... Read more
View audiobookRoom Full of Mirrors
By: Charles R. Cross
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women’s hearts, and the status quo. In this groundbreaking account, music journalist Charles R. Cross takes a far deeper look. Beyond Hendrix’s legendary onstage and offstage magnetism and his excessive lifestyle was a man who struggled to... Read more
View audiobookGod and Mr. Gomez
By: Jack Smith
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives “that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States.” Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez.As their... Read more
View audiobookInhuman Bondage
By: David Brion Davis
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding... Read more
View audiobookWe Were One
By: Patrick K. O’Donnell
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The platoon included four pairs of best friends. Each of the four would lose a best friend forever.Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company’s First Platoon became one of the first American forces to enter Fallujah, where they encountered some of the most intense hand-to-hand combat since World War II. Civilians were used as human... Read more
View audiobookFatal Forecast
By: Michael J. Tougias
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were caught in a horrific surprise storm off of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive ninety-foot waves that battered the boats for hours and... Read more
View audiobookRobert Kennedy
By: Evan Thomas
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 20 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Traditionally, Robert F. Kennedy has been viewed as either the “Good Bobby,” who saw wrong and tried to right it, or the “Bad Bobby” of countless conspiracy theories, the ruthless and manipulative bully who plotted with the Mafia to kill Castro and lusted after Marilyn Monroe. Evan Thomas’ achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring... Read more
View audiobookThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more
View audiobookWe Look like Men of War
By: William R. Forstchen
Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more
View audiobookLandscape Turned Red
By: Stephen W. Sears
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history. On this single day, the battle claimed nearly twenty-three thousand casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate... Read more
View audiobookFoxe’s Book of Martyrs
By: John Foxe
Narrated by: Robin Lawson
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the... Read more
View audiobookOne Christmas in Washington
By: David Bercuson & Holger Herwig
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One Christmas in Washington is the fascinating, in-depth look at one of the most crucial periods in modern history: the Washington war conference of 1941, when two proud and accomplished statesmen struggled to overcome biases, suspicion, and hubris to create what turned out to be the war-winning alliance.The authors take a penetrating look at... Read more
View audiobookThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
By: Robert Spencer
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
You think you know about Islam, but did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states? Or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other “politically incorrect” facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and... Read more
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