History audiobooks

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

With My Face to the Enemy - Abridged

By: Robert Cowley

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of powerful, insightful essays about the Civil War by some of the most renowned historians in their field. Read more

Prince of Tennesee

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he might have been. The Gore who comes to life in this audiobook is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that... Read more

The Pearl Harbor Collection - Abridged

By: Gordon W. Prange

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There is no better, more authoritative chronicle of Pearl Harbor and its repercussions than the three Gordon W. Prange titles collected here. Read more

Buddha

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. In lucid and compelling prose, Armstrong brings to life the Buddha’s quest, from his renunciation of his privileged life to the discovery of a truth that he believed would utterly transform human beings and enable them to... Read more

Flu - Abridged

By: Gina Kolata

Narrated by: Gina Kolata

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.

When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty... Read more

Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 2

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - L'ours danseur2 - Le Pourim de Saragosse3 - Les actions de 'Hiya4 - L'étrange bénédiction5 - La piscine du Roi Salomon Read more

An Album of Memories

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

In the Heart of the Sea

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind... Read more

My Life in Three Acts - Abridged

By: Helen Hayes

Narrated by: Helen Hayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this extremely candid and honest account, Helen Hayes, acclaimed "First Lady of the American Theater", looks back on her life and career, and you are invited to a private listening session. So sit back, relax, and listen to behind-the-scenes portraits and anecdotes of personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, John F. Kennedy, Al... Read more

An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker

In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more

In the Heart of the Sea - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the... Read more

Jazz - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their best.

Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Eboys

By: Randall E. Stross

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.

Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends... Read more

The Power of Gold - Abridged

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Over the centuries, gold had stirred the passions for power and glory, for beauty and security, and even for immortality.  No other object has commanded so much veneration over such a long period of time.  The most striking feature of this long history is that gold led most of the protagonists in the drama into the ditch.  Gold had them, rather... Read more

Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Sherwin Nuland

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren... Read more

Ethnic Diversity:  A Time of Change

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Takaki, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley for over two decades, reflects on the past and the future of America's expanding ethnic diversity and how this diversity will affect the way we relate as individuals and as a nation to the rest of the world. Read more

Lost and Found Sound

By: The Kitchen Sisters & Jay Allison

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Broadcast weekly through 1999, continuing monthly through 2000, Lost & Found Sound chronicles, reflects, and celebrates the human experience in rare recordings and "sonic snapshots" submitted by... Read more

Tales from the Tummy Trilogy - Abridged

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Calvin Trillin is America’s funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cooking—not haute cuisine but genuine good food. Read more

Married to Laughter - Abridged

By: Jerry Stiller

Narrated by: Jerry Stiller

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine. Offstage they raised two children, Amy and... Read more

Nothing Like it In The World - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of... Read more

Desire of the Everlasting Hills

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Brian F. O'Byrne

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus—an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization.

"Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] makes Jesus a still-living literary presence." —The... Read more

How the Irish Saved Civilization

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent... Read more