History Audiobooks Under 6 Hours
The Forgotten War That Changed American History
By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger / Narrated By: Brian Kilmeade
Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
Uh-oh… one eye firmly on History, the other? Oh ouch… total Squid’s Eye, and I can’t help it…
A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
By: Jared Ross Hardesty / Narrated By: Joe Barrett
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
Yikes, I’ve a feeling Hardesty tried his darn-tootin’ best, but this is a noooo… Weep with me!
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert
Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!
A Story of Unfinished Lives
By: Jim Sheeler / Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
A MUST-Listen for every American…
By: Thomas F. Flynn / Narrated By: Jim Dale
Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
The “forever September morning” told in heartrending verse
52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
By: Mackenzi Lee / Narrated By: Lucy James
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
Itty bitty snippets/bios of a gazillion and six women who rocked
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
By: Les Standiford / Narrated By: Jonathan Davis
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
I wanted to love this, truly I did! But holy COW is it dry!
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
A HIGHly respectful look at what we don’t know about North Korea
On Homecoming and Belonging
Written and Narrated By: Sebastian Junger
Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
Tho’ at times the Anthropology turned me off (i.e. women get kinda a short shake here), this is a book that comes closest to what I believe to be true
The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
By: Joseph Hickman / Narrated By: Noah Michael Levine
Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
Yeah I’ll say it: Dick Cheney got rich even as veterans and civilians sickened and died
The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year
By: Tavis Smiley, David Ritz / Narrated By: Tavis Smiley
Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
Fraught narration sometimes mars a good account
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
By: Michael J. Touglas, Casey Sherman / Narrated By: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Captivating despite flat narration