History audiobooks
The Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin
Narrated by: David Case
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin... Read more
View audiobookMary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more
View audiobookIndian Heroes and Great Chieftains - Abridged
By: Charles Eastman
Narrated by: Lorenzo Baca
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the pen of a Santee Sioux— Charles Eastman— come these biographical portraits of American Indian leaders Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph. Eastman was born in Red Falls, Minnesota, and raised by his grandmother and uncle in Manitoba, Canada, where he learned Native American... Read more
View audiobookThe Glory and the Dream
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 57 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four... Read more
View audiobookD-Day - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of... Read more
Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookThe Kingdom
By: Robert Lacey
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Kingdom is the story of a country—a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words “In the name of God,” where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are publicly executed in the street. By its own reckoning, this country is... Read more
View audiobookIs Paris Burning?
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Is Paris burning?” is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly—and how miraculously—the city escaped Hitler’s secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is... Read more
View audiobookO Jerusalem!
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 23 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires by being, through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world.Collins and Lapierre's story is the fruit of five years of intensive research... Read more
View audiobookFortune's Favorite - Abridged
By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more
View audiobookFreedom at Midnight
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies—the India of Kipling’s legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races,... Read more
View audiobookMemo from Darryl F. Zanuck - Abridged
By: Rudy Behlmer
Narrated by: Richard D. Zanuck
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of Hollywood's biggest players for almost 50 years, Darryl F. Zanuck presided over Twentieth Century-Fox during the studio' s most glorious era— with stars like Marilyn Monroe and Henry Fonda, directors like John Ford and Elia Kazan, and classics like How Green Was My Valley, Gentleman' s Agreement, and... Read more
View audiobookHarvey Penick's Little Red Book - Abridged
By: Harvey Penick
Narrated by: Jack Whitaker
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from the Penick family archives.
The most... Read more
Truman - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more
Crazy Wisdom - Abridged
By: Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Narrated by: Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers. Fun and irreverent, Crazy Wisdom synthesizes the most significant, compelling insights of the ages. Journey into the unorthodox teachings that have bubbled up through the words of such "crazy" visionaries as... Read more
View audiobookMeeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookA Picture Book of Christopher Columbus
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Linda Terheyden
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"Well-produced and appealing readalong...expressive narration and appropriate music and sound effects...Sure bet for story time or home." - Booklist Read more
View audiobookThe Duel
By: John Lukacs
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One is poised on the edge of victory, the other threatened by invasion and defeat yet holding on, his own life in the balance and also that of the free world.
In his reconstruction of the 80 days from May 10 to July 31, 1940, the author shows just how close England came to losing the war. He paints Churchill as resolute, threatened from... Read more
Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookMeeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookMeeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookMeeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen, Roscoe Lee Browne, Beulah Quo, Rob...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
View audiobookHomage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the POUM militia to fight against the Fascists.In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two... Read more
View audiobookPeter the Great
By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 43 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more
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