History Audio Books

John Lukacs
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat (Unabridged)

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister....

David Edmonds and John Eidinow
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match (Unabridged)

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men met in the most notorious chess match of all time....

Tom Brokaw
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to turn on, tune in, drop out....

Tom Brokaw
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (Unabridged)

Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to turn on, tune in, drop out....

Alan Axelrod
Bradley: The Great Generals Series (Unabridged)

Known by his troops in World War II as The GI General because of his close identification with the men under his command, Omar Bradley commanded the U. S. Twelfth Army Group in Europe....

Pope Brock
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam (Unabridged)

This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men....

Jill Jonnes
Conquering Gotham: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (Unabridged)

The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats....

Bob Edwards
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Unabridged)

Long before the era of the news anchor, the pundit, and the mini-cam, one man blazed a trail that thousands would follow....

Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Unabridged)

For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world....

Mitchell Garrett and James Godfrey
Europe Since 1815, Volume 1: Reaction and Nationalism (Unabridged)

Europe underwent profound upheavals in the decades immediately following the downfall of Napoleon....