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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.
- Life and Work of Marcel Proust
This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses.
- Life and Works of Beethoven, The
The story of Beethoven, widely believed to be the greatest composer who ever lived.
- Life and Works of Chopin, The
Regarded one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music.
- Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The
Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook which presents the most
important poems in the context of his life and ambitions.
- Life of Dante, A
Here is a brief account of Dante's life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn.
- Life of Oscar Wilde, The
The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English
language.
- Life of Shakespeare, A
In this classic biography, Hesketh Pearson puts his skills as an actor and biographer to lively use, looking at the man as much through his
work
- Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The
This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time.
- Lincoln's Letters: The Private Man and the
Warrior
Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal.
- Lincoln's Prose: Major Works of a Great
American Writer
Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'.
- Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas
Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network
Beyond the Civil War’s bloody battles was an equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in
Europe. At the head of the fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the “father of modern American intelligence”
- Lion in the White House: A Life of
Theodore Roosevelt
In Lion in the White House, historian Aida D. Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president.
- Lion's Honey - The Myth of Samson
Experience the tortured journey of Samson
- Little Big Horn
The real story of Custer and his famous last battle against the Sioux
- Little History of the World, A
This world history is not dominated by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries. In forty concise chapters,
Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the...
- Lives of the Great Artists, The
The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
- Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their extraordinary careers, presenting
perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
- Lone Survivor
The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
- Long March, The
Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of Hargrove's eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas and was the basis for
the recent movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, ...
- Long Walk, The: The True Story of a Trek to
Freedom
In 1941, seven escapees of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia spent a year walking to freedom over four thousand miles of the most forbidding
terrain on earth, always a step away from death. They had no map and no compass but only a fierce determination to survive.
- Long Walk To Freedom
A moving and exhilarating autobiography of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.
- Lost Men, The
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but
few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
- Madness of Sherlock Holmes, The
In a way reminiscent of Holme's art of deduction, this audio book, taken from the DVD of the same name, gets to grips with the creator of
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Magnolia Grove: The Story of
Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson
In 1898, when the Spanish- American War was not going well for the United States, Richmond Pearson Hobson survived a “suicide mission” in a
failed attempt to block Santiago Harbor in Cuba and was i
- Making of Modern Medicine, The
This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ
transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.
- Manassas
Manassas is the first in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. As local lawman Will,
the eldest of the Brannon sons, decides to enlist, the fa...
- Map That Changed the World, The
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology.
- Meaning of It All, The: Thoughts of a
Citizen-Scientist
In this collection of lectures Feynman originally gave in 1963, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of
science. Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man
behind the legend.
- Medical Science
Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection, and the study of the human body was prohibited for
religious reasons until the Renaissance. In 1623, William H...
- Medieval Science
After Rome fell in the 5th century A.D., Europe endured a long drought of ideas. The Middle Ages were a time when spiritual, other-worldly
concerns dominated intellectual life; study of the natural...
- Men in Black
The Supreme Court endorses terrorists' rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You're right: it's not.
But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our o...
- Men of Fire: Grant,
Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil War
The Forts Henry and Donelson campaign, the first decisive Union victory, fought on the western edge of the theater, was a gruesome omen of
what was to come in the battle between two great men: U.S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
- Mexican-American War, The
On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared war upon Mexico. Although the Mexican-American War lasted only 18 month, its
consequences were profound. Mexico lost nearly one-half its territo...
- Middle East, The
By the end of World War I, Britain had promised control of Palestine to both Arabs and Jews. Each of these peoples claimed a longstanding
right to the same piece of land, and violence was inevitabl...
- Middletown, America
Fifty people never came home to Middletown, New Jersey after September 11th. Wall Street fathers, young Port Authority police, single working
moms, the beloved coach of the girls basketball team.
- Monarchy: England and her
Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors
With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, that lie behind the
monarchs that form the backbone of British history.
- Monarchy of England, The: The Beginnings
Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English…
- Morir en el Intento
La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso. Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre
México y Estados Unidos.
- Mornings on Horseback
Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.
- Murder in Brentwood
For O. J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop and brilliant detective had to be destroyed. That was the strategy of the Simpson
defense. But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grew, so...
- My Country Versus Me
The account of the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy.
- Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass - An American Slave
The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
- Nathaniel's Nutmeg
The Bestselling story of how one man's courage changed the course of history. 'A magnificent piece of popular history.' Independent On
Sunday
- Natural Science and the Planet Earth
Among the greatest natural historians was Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), who influenced Goethe, Darwin, and America's leading
naturalists. Humboldt's Cosmos, published in five volumes from 184...
- Nemesis: The Last Days of the American
Republic
Exploring in vivid detail the trap into which the dreams of America’s leaders have taken us and the likely consequences of our dependence on
a permanent war economy, Johnson’s prophetic book, Nemesis, shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, economically
and politically.
- New Understanding of the Atom, A
The concept of the atom—the smallest physical building block of nature—has been around at least since ancient Greece. Leucippus and
Democritus conceived of a mechanical or physical atom...
- New World Coming
New World Coming is a vivid portrait of the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped this extraordinary time, including, ironically,
three of America's most conservative presidents, Harding,...
- Nick Pope: The Man Who Left The MOD
In this Audio book from the DVD of the same name, Nick Pope for the first time since leaving the MOD goes on the record and spells out his
beliefs, opinions and reveals his inside knowledge.
- None Dare Call It Stolen:
Ohio, The Election, and America's Servile Press
The political story the media was afraid to touch. The story of how the
- No One Left Behind (Abridged)
The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
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