History audiobooks
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
By: Joseph M. Marshall
Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites.The men who led the battle—Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer—have become the stuff of legends, ingrained in the lore of the American West.Here award-winning Lakota historian Joseph... 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 audiobookLaurel Canyon
By: Michael Walker
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. Starting with The Byrds in 1965, these musicians... Read more
View audiobookMarie Antoinette
By: Evelyne Lever
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Married for political reasons at the age of fourteen, Marie Antoinette was naïve, impetuous, and ill equipped for the role in which history cast her. From her birth in Vienna in 1755 through her turbulent, unhappy marriage, the bloody turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason (during which she was accused of incest), and her... Read more
View audiobookThe 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 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 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 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 audiobookThe Heart of a Soldier
By: Kate Blaise & Dana White
Narrated by: Melissa Edris
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other.
Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who... Read more
The War That Made America
By: Fred Anderson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War-also known as the Seven Years' War-and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and... Read more
View audiobookJawbreaker
By: Gary Berntsen
Narrated by: Ralph Pezzullo & Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more
Jawbreaker - Abridged
By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo
Narrated by: Gary Berntsen
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more
The Divided Land
By: Theresa Lee
Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were... Read more
View audiobookFlying Through Midnight
By: John T. Halliday
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War
Like Jarhead, We Were Soldiers Once..., and Young, John T. Halliday's combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying in the Vietnam War.
The year is 1970, and John T.... Read more
Dealers of Lightning - Abridged
By: Michael A. Hiltzik
Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Cold War
By: John Lewis Gaddis
Narrated by: Jay Gregory & Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The "dean of Cold War historians" (New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.
It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Their meeting point—a small German city—became part of a front line that... Read more
One Woman's Army
By: General Janis Karpinski & Steven Strasser
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When Janis Karpinski first saw the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, she felt the walls of her Baghdad office closing in on her. She recognized that the soldiers shown grinning over the naked, cowering Iraqi detainees serves under her command. Military justice already had swept up the seven MPs charged in the abuse case–and Karpinski... Read more
View audiobookI Should Have Been at Work - Abridged
By: Des Lynam
Narrated by: Des Lynam
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most sought-after celebrity titles of recent years, Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth. Famously guarded about his private life, Des sets the record straight on all the stories that have been written about him, giving a unique view of life at the very top... Read more
View audiobookRed Star Rogue
By: Kenneth Sewell
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.We now know that... Read more
View audiobookA Knock at Midnight
By: Clayborne Carson
Narrated by: Keith David & Jay Gregory
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader and visionary of the civil rights movement, was first and foremost a preacher. This unique collection features a selection of Dr. King's best sermons - some not heard since he first delivered them - recorded at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and in other churches where he carried his... Read more
View audiobookA Distant Mirror
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 28 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of... Read more
View audiobookThe Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Abridged
By: Clayborne Carson
Narrated by: LeVar Burton
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all.
Written in his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King: the... Read more
The Google Story
By: David A. Vise & Mark Malseed
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and... Read more
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