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History Audio Books
- 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.
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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...
- Disrobed:
The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts
America's courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left's camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law
tomes. Absent a sweeping change, precisely what author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed, liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant
position in the...
- Distant Mirror, A: The
Calamitous 14th Century
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; on
the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a wo...
- Dixie Bull
Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
- Double
Victory: A Multicultural History Of America In World War II
In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerge to illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during wartime: a
Japanese -American at an internment camp; a Native American ...
- Downtown
Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves - Manhattan.
- Dr Crippen
Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
- Dying to Cross
Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
- Echoes of the Mekong
Peter Huchthausen, in a patrol boat on the Mekong River, rescued a badly wounded Vietnamese child, Nguyen Thi Lung, arranged for her
treatment and education, then lost track of her during the Tet ...
- Echo of Greece, The
With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, of
the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics, and ...
- Einstein's Revolution
In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, followed by the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. He firmly
established (1) the idea that all judgement about motion is a ma...
- Elizabeth
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
- Elizabeth's London
Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this fascinating evocation of Elizabethan...
- Emancipation Proclamation, The
President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, emancipating all slaves in the territories of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, are
brought to life through an engaging performance...
- Essential Lewis and Clark, The
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration.
- Ethnic America
Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians,
Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans...
- Eyewitness 1900-1909
Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them
happen...
- Eyewitness 1910-1919
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim
Pigott-Smith...
- Eyewitness 1920 - 1929
Eyewitness 1920 - 1929 presents the history of the Twentieth Century, based on contemporary accounts of events as they happened, using BBC
Archives.
- Eyewitness 1930 - 1939
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim
Pigott-Smith.
- Eyewitness 1940-1949
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim
Pigott-Smith
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