History audiobooks
Love Stories - Abridged
By: Larry King
Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Larry King, whose previous books have sold more than one million copies, tells the moving and heartwarming stories of couples who met by chance and fell in love during World War II, based on his original interviews.
Poignant, inspiring, humorous, and unforgettable, these are the stories of men and women who, amid the chaos of a devestating war,... Read more
What If...? Vol 2 - Abridged
By: Robert Cowley
Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is no surer way to feel the danger or the good fortune of our collective past than to contemplate those moments when the world's future hung in the balance. Our brightest historians speculate on some of these intriguing crossroads and the ways in which our lives might have been changed for the better -- or the worse.
These unabridged essays... Read more
Germs - Abridged
By: Judith Miller
Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of biological and chemical weapons.
Today Americans have begun... Read more
Reaching for Glory - Abridged
By: Michael R. Beschloss
Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Reaching for Glory lets us eavesdrop on LBJ's private, often tortured thoughts during the most crucial year of his presidency -- when his dreams of being hailed as the equal of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were destroyed by the war in Vietnam.
As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in... Read more
Andy Warhol
By: Wayne Koestenbaum
Narrated by: Arthur Addison
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In his bravura account of Warhol's life and work, scholar and culture critic Wayne Koestenbaum gets past the contradictions and reveals the man behind the blond wig and dark glasses. Nimbly weaving brilliant and witty analysis into an absorbing narrative, Koestenbaum makes a convincing case for Warhol as a serious artist, one whose importance... Read more
View audiobookThe Soul Of America
By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Jacob Needleman, internationally acclaimed author and philosopher, takes us on a journey back to the beginning of America and re-tells the story of America in a way that inspires and invites us to explore the lives of our forefathers and the sacred dimension of their founding principles. Read more
View audiobookRiddle of the Compass - Abridged
By: Amir D. Aczel
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the... Read more
View audiobookThe Big Enchilada
By: Stuart P. Stevens
Narrated by: Edward Holland
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Six years ago he owned a baseball team. Now he's the leader of the free world. "The Big Enchilada" is a comic anthem to the wild and improbable crusade that propelled George W. Bush into the White House and to the close-knit group of Texans who made it happen, written by "the Bush campaign's Renaissance man" (Time magazine).
Writer and political... Read more
The Rehnquist Choice - Abridged
By: John W. Dean
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines & John W. Dean
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The explosive story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the only person who could have revealed this information—John W. Dean.
In 1971, William Rehnquist seemed the perfect choice to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court. He was a young, well-polished lawyer who shared many of President Richard Nixon's... Read more
Currahee! - Abridged
By: Donald R. Burgett
Narrated by: David Guion
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Seven days in hell
In June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to go behind German lines. These were the Screaming Eagles of the newly formed 101st Airborne Division. Their job... Read more
When Genius Failed - Abridged
By: Roger Lowenstein
Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then,... Read more
View audiobookWar in a Time of Peace - Abridged
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: David Halberstam
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who... Read more
Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds - Abridged
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three board a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff they hear an explosion and some see a mangled engine lodged against the wing. From that moment, nine minutes and twenty seconds elapse until the crippled plane crashes in a west Georgia hayfield.... Read more
View audiobookAva's Man - Abridged
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.
This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible... Read more
Stephen Ambrose: The Wild Blue
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Gwen Ifill talks with historian and author Stephen Ambrose and World War II pilot and former Senator George McGovern about Ambrose's new book, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B24's over Germany. Read more
View audiobookThe Wild Blue
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II.
The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their... Read more
The Wild Blue - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II.
The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their... Read more
Guns, Germs and Steel - Abridged
By: Jared Diamond
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age... Read more
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
By: Daniel Stashower
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age when he created Sherlock Holmes. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship, to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and... Read more
View audiobookPete Hamill on Eddie Stanky - Abridged
By: Pete Hamill
Narrated by: Pete Hamill
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's a cold spring day in 1944. A young Pete Hamill is with his father watching the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Boston Braves. The wartime teams are just dismal - many major league players are serving their country and the teams have been clogged with has-beens and guys that are 4-F. But Pete's father tells him to "watch this little guy." His name... Read more
View audiobookDante
By: R. W. B. Lewis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered exile from the city that would fiercely reclaim him a... Read more
View audiobookGhost Soldiers - Abridged
By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a... Read more
War Letters - Abridged
By: Andrew Carroll
Narrated by: Joan Allen & Tom Brokaw
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection—including never-before-published letters that... Read more
View audiobookClose to Shore - Abridged
By: Michael Capuzzo
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more