History audiobooks
John Paul Jones
By: Evan Thomas
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."
John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a... Read more
Castles of Steel
By: Robert K. Massie
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 40 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.
The predominant... Read more
American Patriots
By: Gail Buckley
Narrated by: Robert Stuart
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and culminating with Desert Storm.
The best histories are about more than facts and events — they... Read more
Robert E. Lee
By: Roy Blount, Jr.
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, a complex soul, and a Southerner to the core. Tapped by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army in the Civil War, his Virginian roots led him to command the Confederates instead. A charismatic though reluctant leader, his military audacity and tactical genius were combined with a genuine and sorrowful... Read more
View audiobookJoseph Smith
By: Robert V. Remini
Narrated by: Del Roy
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The most important reformer and innovator in American religious history, Joseph Smith has remained a fascinating enigma to many, both inside and outside the Mormon Church he founded. Born in 1805, Smith grew up during the "Second Great Awakening," when secular tumult had spawned radical religious fervor and countless new sects. His... Read more
View audiobookThe Bravest Man
By: William Tuohy
Narrated by: E.H. Jones
Length: 15 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“There’s no margin for mistakes in submarines. You’re either alive or dead.”
–Richard O’Kane
Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank more enemy ships and saved more downed fliers than anyone else.
Now Pulitzer Prize—winning author... Read more
A Thread Across the Ocean
By: John Steele Gordon
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.
But in 1866, the... Read more
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By: Samuel P. Huntington
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American... Read more
View audiobookAmerica's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
By: Richard Brookhiser
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In America's First Dynasty, Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still greatest dynasty -- the Adamses, the only family in our history to play a leading role in American affairs for... Read more
View audiobookSilent Night
By: Stanley Weintraub
Narrated by: Edward Holland
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to continue shooting, the unofficial truce spread across the front lines. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible: Germans placed candlelit Christmas trees on... Read more
View audiobookA Man of Contradictions
By: Richard Ollard
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A. L. Rowse proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan.
In this clear-sighted and absorbing biography,... Read more
The Borderlands of Science
By: Michael Shermer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more
View audiobookLike No Other Time
By: Tom Daschle
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.
The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... Read more
Preachers of Hate
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more
View audiobookDarby's Rangers - Abridged
By: William O. Darby
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
The exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words
From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby’s Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II—the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and... Read more
The Pirate Hunter
By: Richard Zacks
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to... Read more
View audiobookThe Age of Sacred Terror
By: Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam... Read more
Sleeping With the Devil - Abridged
By: Robert Baer
Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and... Read more
View audiobookSailing the Wine Dark Sea
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek... Read more
Intelligence in War
By: John Keegan
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence.
In... Read more
Franklin and Winston
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
“Intense and compelling... Read more
There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere
By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile... Read more
View audiobookHoratio's Drive
By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
Narrated by: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns & Tom Hanks
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who... Read more
Benjamin Franklin - Abridged
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more