History audiobooks

Living Biographies of Religious Leaders

By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world’s foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries.In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors... Read more

Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize–winning work recounts Thomas Jefferson's eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson's first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the administrations of Washington and Adams. During this term he... Read more

The Gift of Valor

By: Michael M. Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham's brave act that saved fellow Marines and earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting hand-to-hand in the dirt, Dunham saw his... Read more

Le futur de la vie terrestre

By: Hubert Reeves

Narrated by: Hubert Reeves

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Notre planète va mal : réchauffement climatique, épuisement des ressources naturelles, pollution des sols et de l'eau provoquée par les industries civiles et guerrières, disparité des richesses, malnutrition des hommes, taux d'extinction effarant des espèces vivantes, etc. La situation est-elle vraiment dramatique ? Que penser des thèses qui... Read more

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3

By: Shelby Foote

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third and final volume of this magnificent history, Shelby Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife that altered American life forever. Following the events of the war from 1862–1864, Foote discusses the strategies of both the North and the South and assesses the performance of the Union generals. The volume... Read more

A Hundred and One Days

By: Asne Seierstad

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a stunning and intimate portrait of Baghdad under siege



From January until April 2003-for one hundred and one days-Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the... Read more

Secrets of the Kingdom

By: Gerald Posner

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, this is a gross understatement. In his new book, Secrets of the Kingdom, Posner exposes the undeniable truth about... Read more

Brotherhood of Heroes

By: Bill Sloan

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious-yet largely forgotten-battle of World War II.


Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little island in the Pacific. Peleliu was the... Read more

The Last Voyage of Columbus - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being... Read more

Sinatra

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

""These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Theseare the men who took the cliffs. These are thechampions who helped free a continent. Theseare the heroes who helped end a war.""—Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984,Normandy, FranceAcclaimed historian and author of the ""New York Times"" bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the riveting account of... Read more

Meet You in Hell

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more

The Gift of Valor - Abridged

By: Michael M. Phillips

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: Yes

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more

Conduct Under Fire

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

The Course of Human Events

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style.

In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his... Read more

1776

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more

1776 - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more

Sinatra - Abridged

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

Soldiers and Slaves

By: Roger Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned... Read more

Behind the Lines - Abridged

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Dion Graham, George Grizzard, Kate Nelligan, Ke...

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars.

Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of its kind: a dramatic, intimate, and revealing look at warfare as seen... Read more

Conduct Under Fire - Abridged

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

Meet You in Hell - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more

109 East Palace - Abridged

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.

In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more

The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial... Read more