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History Audio Books are a great resource for looking back in time. We have a lot of History Audiobooks for you to choose from.
Below is our current range of History Audio Books.
- Chronicles - Volume One
Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences.
- Church and Reformation
Christian Europe divided and Protestant-Jewish relations.
- Churchill: Confidential
We hear, in their own words, the disputes and fears that Churchill's cabinet had to struggle with during the darkest days of the Second World
War.
- Churchill Remembered
A fascinating and illuminating audio portrait of the life and career of one of Britain's greatest leaders, recounted by those who knew him
and in his own words from the BBC archive.
- Citizen Soldiers
Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches...
- Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The
In this landmark study, Burckhardt chronicles the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscoveries of Greek and Roman
culture and the new emphasis on the role of the individual. These went hand in hand with scientific achievement and a more naturalistic
depiction of the world...
- Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
Armed with vast statistical research, economist Thomas Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the civil-rights movement as we
know it today was erected, “that discrimination leads to poverty and other adverse social consequences and . . . that adverse statistical
disparities imply...
- Civil War, The: A First Hand Look
A Union General's battle stories. In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of
the army he commanded, and the battles he fought.
- Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. I,
Fort Sumter to Perryville
All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the
fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally imp...
- Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol.
II, Fredericksburg to Meridian
The Army of the Potomac attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker makes yet another attempt, but
Stonewall Jackson turns his flank at Chancellorsville. In ...
- Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol.
III, Red River to Appomattox
Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the battlefield, which
finally decided the fate of this nation.
- Civil War, The: Part 1
From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American
Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
- Civil War, The: Part 2
From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American
Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
- Classical Music
101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth
many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a high...
- Color of Love
Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism.
- Commander Of The Exodus
Of the expeditions led by Yossi Harel from 1946 to 1948, it was the voyage of the Exodus to Palestine that became a beacon for Zionism and a
symbol to all that neither guns, cannons, nor warships c...
- Common Sense
The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War.
- Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
Sowell’s essays paint some hard truths, which are backed by his brilliant scholarship. He discusses many of the extraordinary ideas that
preoccupy the liberal political agenda, exposing their flaws and submitting them to reprimand. He lays bare the errors of such phenomena as
affirmative action,...
- Complexity and Chaos
Traditional scientific determinism has suggested that the natural world is regular and predictable, and that timeless and universal nature is
best understood by studying its parts in isolation. For...
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay
back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corrup...
- Conflict of Visions, A:
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as
associated with the political Right and political Left. At the heart of the conflict of visions are questions about the moral and
intellectual...
- Conjuror's Bird, The
Despite being the leading expert in his field, Fitz has never really fulfilled his potential, never written the great book on extinct species
that everyone expected from him when he was setting out.
- Constitutional Convention, The
In 1783, America emerged from a long and bitter war for Independence. The 13 colonies were now 13 sovereign states, bound together by the
Articles of Confederation. After years of war, men like Tho...
- Constitutional Journal
You are there, in 1787, at America's constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret
proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast jou...
- Course of Human Events, The
On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
- Cracking DaVinci's Code
The Da Vinci Code: Harmless fiction or a hidden agenda aimed at the foundations of Christianity?
- Crack in the Edge of the World, A (Abridged)
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
- Crack in the Edge of the World, A (Unabridged)
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
- Cradles of Civilization: The History of
Writing
In this ongoing series, Dr. Neiman traces the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent.
- Cross of Thoth, The - the truth of the Celtic
Cross
The Cross of Thoth reveals the hidden truth to mankind's most revered symbol.
- Cuba
This island was once a clearinghouse for importing slaves into the New World. It later became one of the world's few remaining bastions of
Marxism, proclaiming socio-economic equality. In both form...
- Curran Vs Catholic University
The Curran case framed an era, from 1965 to 1990, and left behind unresolved questions about authority and freedom in the Catholic Church
today. Through biography, history, theology, and courtroom ...
- Dancing in the Streets: A History of
Collective Joy
Best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest
traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
- Darwin and Evolution
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published in 1859 a vastly important work: On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin ...
- Day
of Battle, The: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944: Volume 2 of the Liberation Trilogy
The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns, the War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with my
Mexican Father
Rodriguez portrays Mexico and the United States as moral rivals for California. Tragic Mexico and the comedic United States, ironically, have
traded roles by the end of the twentieth century. Rodrigue
- Day the World Ended at Little Big
Horn, The: A Lakota History
The Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites. Lakota
historian Joseph M. Marshall III reveals the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the battle, in an account that has until now
only been...
- D-Day
They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits...
- Declaration of Independence, The
A stirring performance of the foundation document of American liberty...
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
One of the greatest texts in the English language.
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II,
The
Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
- Deep
Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food,
shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped gro...
- Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
One unforgettable year in Charles Osgood's childhood in Baltimore during WWII.
- Deliver Us From Evil
As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the
continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home.
- Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
Subtitled True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors, this is the ultimate book of ordeals, with remarkable stories of castaways and other
survivors from the 1500s to the present. Included are a...
- Devil Came on Horseback,
The: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
This is an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of violent Darfur by a former American Marine who became a military observer
for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan, it is also a powerful memoir of one soldier’s
awakening to...
- Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
- Different Drummer, A
A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three
decades.
- Dimensions of Scientific Thought
Science is a way of knowing that's characterized by the rules of logic and the methods of experiment. But the conflict between logic and
experiment has created a long-standing tension in scientific...
- Disappearance of Childhood, The
From the vogue for very young models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, childhood in America today is in precipitous decline.
Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Postman suggests that the divisions between childhood and adulthood
are eroding under the...
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