History

June 24, 2008

May 4, 2008

  • John Adams Biography Audio Book

    The John Adams Biography audiobook is written by David McCullough and read by Nelson Runger. It is a massive 30 hours historical masterpiece.
    In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American [...]

March 24, 2008

  • A Short History Of Ireland Audio Book

    Dr Jonathan Bardon is the author of the audio book A Short History Of Ireland.
     

    In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station’s most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland!
    For easy digestion, and [...]

March 19, 2008

  • Shoulder the Sky Audio Book

    Anne Perry is the author of the audiobook Shoulder the Sky.
    By April 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England’s youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man’s-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice.
    A nephew [...]

March 18, 2008

  • After Fidel — Audio Book

    After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader is an audiobook written by Brian Latell and read by Stefan Rudnicki.
    "Few Americans understand Cuba–past, present, and future–better than Brian Latell. He has combined an old CIA hand’s knowledge and insights with a clear, readable writer’s touch to bring both Castros–Fidel and his [...]

March 7, 2008

  • Pale Horseman Audio Book

    Pale Horseman is an audiobook written by Bernhard Cornwell.
    Uhtred is a Saxon, adrift in a world of fire, sword and treachery. He has to make a choice— fight for the vikings who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex who dislikes him.

    Wessex, in the late 9th Century, was the last English kingdom. [...]

February 25, 2008

  • Andrew Carnegie Biography — Audio Book

    This is the 33 hours Andrew Carnegie audio book, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War was America’s first modern titan.
    In this magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life this period of unprecedented transition-a time of self-made millionaires, scabs, strikes, and a [...]

February 23, 2008

  • The Order of the Alchemists Audio Book

    The Order of the Alchemists is an audiobook written by Philip Gardiner.
    Almost everybody is now aware of the infamous history of the Knights Templar. But not everybody realizes that there was another Order from the same time and with the same roots. This Order still exists today and has incredible power.
    This audio book reveals the true [...]

February 13, 2008

  • American Soldier - Audio Book

    American Soldier is an audiobook written and read by General Tommy Fanks.
    Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all.
    The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks [...]

February 6, 2008

  • The Last Voyage Of Columbus Audio Book

    The Last Voyage Of Columbus is a historical audio book written by Martin Dugard.
    The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, “a [...]

January 3, 2008

  • Isaac Newton Audio Book

    Isaac Newton is an audiobook written by James Gleick and read by Allan Corduner.
    James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science — how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a [...]

November 20, 2007

  • History of English Literature

    The History of English Literature is an audio book written by Perry Keenlyside.
    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…
    Far from the madding Crowd’s ignoble Strife…
    Emma felt the tears running down her cheeks…
    I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered…
    Move him into the sun…
    English literature may very well be the greatest body [...]

November 16, 2007

  • Band of Brothers — Online Audio Book

    Band of Brothers is an audiobook written by Stephen E. Ambrose and read by Cotter Smith.
    Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company, which kept [...]

November 8, 2007

  • 109 East Palace — Audio Book

    They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
    They were greeted by Dorothy McKibbin, an attractive widow who was the [...]

September 19, 2007

  • Secrets of the Code — Audio Book

    Secrets of the Code is an audiobook written by Dan Burstein and narrated by Jeff Harding and Sian Thomas.
    Millions of readers worldwide have been hooked by Dan Brown’s extraordinary bestseller The Da Vinci Code and are fascinated by questions raised in the novel:
     Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a child together? [...]

August 28, 2007

  • The History of the CIA — Audio Book

    Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is an audiobook written by Tim Weiner and narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
    "Absorbing, a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
    "A timely, immensely readable, and highly critical history of the CIA, culminating with the most recent catastrophic failures in Iraq."Mark Bowden, author of [...]

August 9, 2007

  • Einstein — Audio Book

    Einstein is an audiobook by Walter Isaacson.
    How did Einstein’s mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
    Based on newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores [...]

July 30, 2007

  • Quicksilver — Audio Book

    Quicksilver is an audiobook by Neal Stephenson.
    Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape [...]

July 27, 2007

  • Thousand Splendid Suns Audio Book

    A Thousand Splendid Suns is an audiobook by Khaled Hosseini.
    It is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afganistan’s last thirty years - from the soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It [...]

July 25, 2007

  • Speaking My Mind — Audio Book by Ronald Reagan

    Speaking My Mind is another audiobook written and read by Ronald Reagan.
    One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan—one of our nation’s most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, [...]

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