History audiobooks
Comrades - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.
Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more
Nixon in Winter
By: Monica Crowley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Monica Crowley served as a personal assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon from July 1990 until his death in April 1994. This remarkable story of his final public and private years is based on full reconstructions of the conversations she had with him at the time. Nixon in Winter puts the reader behind the scenes with the former... Read more
View audiobookEndgame - Abridged
By: Scott Ritter
Narrated by: Scott Ritter
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ?
Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in... Read more
American Heritage's Great Minds of American History - Abridged
By: American Heritage
Narrated by: David McCullough & Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a series of fascinating interviews, today's best and brightest historians weigh in on the crucial moments in American history.
American Heritage's Great Minds of American History takes you to critical moments in American history, imbuing the past with an immediacy that goes well beyond the scope of formal histories. Roger Mudd's highly... Read more
Black Hawk Down - Abridged
By: Mark Bowden
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down... Read more
Rodin
By: Frederic V. Grunfeld
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 27 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more
View audiobookReconstruction
By: Eric Foner
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 30 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes... Read more
View audiobookA World without Heroes
By: George Roche
Narrated by: Robert Morris
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roche’s A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianity—humorous, insightful, and uncompromising—takes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of... Read more
View audiobookThe Death of Outrage - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Charlton Heston
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration.
The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had... Read more
The Children's Book of America - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Elayne Glover Bennett, Hinton Battle & William ...
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of the bestselling book The Educated Child comes a compelling and inspiring book that answers any question a young child may have about America.
Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes America great? No volume will provide more compelling and inspiring answers to our children's questions than... Read more
The Victors - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.
This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive... Read more
Band of Brothers - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.
They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942,... Read more
Stalingrad - Abridged
By: Antony Beevor
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.
In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that... Read more
Forgotten Heroes
By: Susan Ware
Narrated by: Susan Ware
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
For Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five prominent historians chose their favorite stories of unsung American figures. From Johnny Appleseed and John Quincy Adams to abolitionist Sojourner Truth and Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, these profiles remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of women and men, whether... Read more
View audiobookRichard Ketchum: Saratoga
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From NewsHour Productions — Richard Ketchum: Saratoga, Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War. Read more
View audiobookTeam Rodent
By: Carl Hiassen
Narrated by: Richard Gilliland
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. A native of Florida, Hiaasen comes by his dislike for Disney honestly. He has witnessed the relentless success of the Disney machine firsthand with the development of Disney World and other properties around Orlando. In Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Hiaasen paints a witty and... Read more
View audiobookAgainst All Enemies - Abridged
By: Seymour Hersh
Narrated by: James Sutorius
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the Gulf War lasted barely six months— from August 1990 until February 1991— many of the veterans who engaged in the conflict suffered long-lasting physical and psychological effects. And yet, those in power who had the ability to address such issues, neglected to do so— at least not in any effective or... Read more
View audiobookThe Titanic Disaster Hearings - Abridged
By: Tom Kuntz & Michael York
Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On April 10, 1912, The RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. But on the night of April 14, the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Merely one day after the Titanic survivors arrived in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an... Read more
View audiobookRising Tide - Abridged
By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more
The Gifts Of The Jews - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
View audiobookPillar of Fire - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more
The Gold of Exodus - Abridged
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.
In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more
Parting the Waters - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,... Read more
Diana
By: Peter Donnelly
Narrated by: Samantha Eggar
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer attained wealth, power, and title with her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities: an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people, particularly... Read more
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