History audiobooks
A World without Heroes
By: George Roche
Narrated by: Robert Morris
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Rocheโs A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianityโhumorous, insightful, and uncompromisingโtakes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of... Read more
View audiobookRodin
By: Frederic V. Grunfeld
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 27 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptorโknown for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of othersโbut also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more
View audiobookThe Death of Outrage - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Charlton Heston
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration.
The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had... Read more
The Victors - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Americaโs preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive... Read more
Band of Brothers - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambroseโs classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War IIโs most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.
They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942,... Read more
The Children's Book of America - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Elayne Glover Bennett, Hinton Battle & William ...
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of the bestselling book The Educated Child comes a compelling and inspiring book that answers any question a young child may have about America.
Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes America great? No volume will provide more compelling and inspiring answers to our children's questions than... Read more
Stalingrad - Abridged
By: Antony Beevor
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.
In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that... Read more
Forgotten Heroes
By: Susan Ware
Narrated by: Susan Ware
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
For Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five prominent historians chose their favorite stories of unsung American figures. From Johnny Appleseed and John Quincy Adams to abolitionist Sojourner Truth and Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, these profiles remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of women and men, whether... Read more
View audiobookRichard Ketchum: Saratoga
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From NewsHour Productions โ Richard Ketchum: Saratoga, Turning Point of Americaโs Revolutionary War. Read more
View audiobookTeam Rodent
By: Carl Hiassen
Narrated by: Richard Gilliland
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. A native of Florida, Hiaasen comes by his dislike for Disney honestly. He has witnessed the relentless success of the Disney machine firsthand with the development of Disney World and other properties around Orlando. In Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Hiaasen paints a witty and... Read more
View audiobookAgainst All Enemies - Abridged
By: Seymour Hersh
Narrated by: James Sutorius
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the Gulf War lasted barely six monthsโ from August 1990 until February 1991โ many of the veterans who engaged in the conflict suffered long-lasting physical and psychological effects. And yet, those in power who had the ability to address such issues, neglected to do soโ at least not in any effective or... Read more
View audiobookThe Titanic Disaster Hearings - Abridged
By: Tom Kuntz & Michael York
Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On April 10, 1912, The RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. But on the night of April 14, the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Merely one day after the Titanic survivors arrived in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an... Read more
View audiobookRising Tide - Abridged
By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more
The Gifts Of The Jews - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
View audiobookPillar of Fire - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more
Parting the Waters - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a โcompellingโฆmasterfully toldโ (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther Kingโs early years and rise to greatness.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,... Read more
The Gold of Exodus - Abridged
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.
In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more
Diana
By: Peter Donnelly
Narrated by: Samantha Eggar
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer attained wealth, power, and title with her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities: an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people, particularly... Read more
View audiobookCitizen Soldiers - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen... Read more
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"...A worthwhile and significant addition to any elementary collection." - School Library Journal Read more
View audiobookCold War Face-off
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Jim Lehrer discusses the significance of Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis with the presidential historians and Sergei Khrushchev, the son of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Read more
View audiobookIntuitive Thinking:ย Wisdom for the 21st Century
By: Harlan Cleveland
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Leadership is a quality in short supply during a time in history when we need it the most. Cleveland has worked closely with four American presidents and offers intriguing insights and visions about the Information Age, explaining why it is so unique from ages past. His eight attitudes of leadership are both provocative and profound. Read more
View audiobookWait Till Next Year - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwinโs touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were... Read more
The Children's Book of Heroes - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collaborated to create The Children's Book of Heroes, a beautifully illustrated celebration of heroic deeds, both real and fictional, that will delight and inspire millions of young children and their parents.
"We... Read more