History Audio Books

Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Unabridged)

Bringing the United States during World War II dramatically to life, this title presents an introduction to the challenges that faced America at the start of a war long thought avoidable....

Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler
All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion (Unabridged)

Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of 99 lives....

American RadioWorks
America's Drug War

After 30 years, America's War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight....

Murray N. Rothbard
America's Great Depression (Unabridged)

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

Jim Rasenberger
America, 1908: The Making of a Modern Nation (Unabridged)

Renowned historian Jim Rasenberger turns his keen eye on America at the dawn of the 20th century - a time when innovation seemed to know no bounds....

American RadioWorks
American RadioWorks Black History Month Special Collection

In honor of Black History Month, Audible is proud to offer a collection of superb original recordings featuring some of the most influential voices in African-American history....

Nick Taylor
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work (Unabridged)

When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation....

Michael Eric Dyson
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America (Unabridged)

At the 40th anniversary of King's assassination, acclaimed public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson reevaluates the fate of America, specifically black America, since that date....

Richard Rhodes
Arsenals of Folly (Unabridged)

In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....

American RadioWorks
Battles of Belief in World War Two

These are two remarkable stories, about the struggle for minds and hearts in World War Two....