History audiobooks

Sleeping with the Devil

By: Robert Baer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No... Read more

Hallowed Ground

By: James M. McPherson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.

The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more

Blood on the Risers - Abridged

By: John Leppelman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. 

As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... Read more

Five Years to Freedom - Abridged

By: James N. Rowe

Narrated by: Reathel Bean

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.

In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die.... Read more

Platoon Leader - Abridged

By: James R. McDonough

Narrated by: Joel Rooks

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'

"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more

13 Cent Killers - Abridged

By: John Culbertson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”

In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more

Theodore Roosevelt

By: Louis Auchincloss

Narrated by: Ira Claffey

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century

The warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt's involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated, military career, and his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose", Roosevelt was in fact a man of... Read more

Grover Cleveland

By: Henry F. Graff

Narrated by: Ira Claffey

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of... Read more

William McKinley

By: Kevin Phillips

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy

By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of... Read more

Supreme Command

By: Eliot A. Cohen

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show, the politicians or the generals?In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen, Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and... Read more

Longitudes and Attitudes - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after.

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most... Read more

Lost in America

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy when I was small, because it sounded American and that is how he so desperately wanted things to... Read more

Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 5

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - Quand Bouni devint Nakdimon2 - Le gouverneur qui ne gouverna plus3 - Pour l'amour de la Torah (histoire de Hillel Ha Zaken)4 - Le miracle de Kippour Read more

Sea of Glory

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough

The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.

A New York Times Notable Book

America's first frontier was not the... Read more

Captured by Indians

By: Mary Rowlandson

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson's village. Most were killed. "The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same through the bowels of my dear child in my arms." This marvelous reading of her account, descriptive and mindful of the will of God, is a very powerful audiobook. Mary White was... Read more

Kate Remembered

By: A. Scott Berg

Narrated by: Tony Goldwyn

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestseller!

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century—reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.

In 1983—at the age of 75,... Read more

Sea of Glory - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough

The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.

A New York Times Notable Book

America's first frontier was not the... Read more

Into Africa

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more

The Majesty of the Law

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael Beschloss

In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution.... Read more

The Sea Hunters II - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the authors of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters come more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.

Abridged, five CDs, 6 hours Read more

Power Failure

By: Mimi Swartz & Sherron Watkins

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.”
Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that... Read more

Lost Discoveries

By: Dick Teresi

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy,... Read more

A Long Way from Home - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years

From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into... Read more

To America - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians.

Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers... Read more