http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/tag/history History Audiobooks for iPods - Every week we update the newest audio books and provide a short mp3 sample of our new audiobooks for iPods, iPhones and MP3 Players. If you love to read with your ears, this podcast will keep you on top of the newest audio books on the market. Don't miss the newest audio books you will ever hear. To see more audiobooks, visit CastLibrary.com where you can sign up to download audio books for as little as $7.49. History Audiobooks for iPods - Every week we update the newest audiobooks for iPods and MP3 players and provide a short mp3 sample of our new audiobooks for iPods, iPhones and MP3 players. If you love to read with your ears, this podcast will keep you on top of the newest audiobooks on the market. Don't miss the best new audio books you will ever hear. To see more audiobooks, visit CastLibrary.com where you can sign up to download audio books for as little as $7.49. en Castlibrary.com support@castlibrary.com clean audiobooks for ipods, audio books, best selling audio books, audible, audiobooks, audiobook downloads 1440 audiobooks for ipods, best selling audio books, audible, audiobooks, audiobook downloads http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/genghis-khan-making-modern-world-unabridged Download Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/genghis-khan-making-modern-world-unabridged Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:40:01 -0000 Bios, Memoirs, Political Figures, History, World http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/game-change-obama-clintons-mccain-palin-race-lifetime Download Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it."--Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama.... The shocking fall of the House of Clinton - and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama's partner and America's face to the world.... The mercurial p...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/game-change-obama-clintons-mccain-palin-race-lifetime John Heilemann, Mark Halperin Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:40:03 -0000 Bios, Memoirs, Political Figures, History, 21st Century, Nonfiction, Politics http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/citizens-london-americans-stood-britain-darkest-finest-hour Download Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: In Citizens of London , Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men . Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, Olson skillfully depicts the dramatic personal journeys of thes...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/citizens-london-americans-stood-britain-darkest-finest-hour Lynne Olson Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:40:42 -0000 History, 20th Century, History, European, History, Political http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/patriot-history-united-states-unabridged Download A Patriot's History of the United States (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: Since the liberal revolution of the '60s and '70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative. They overemphasize America's racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots. As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington, more on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II than on D-day or Iwo Jima, more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. This book offers...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/patriot-history-united-states-unabridged Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen A Patriot's History of the United States (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:40:53 -0000 History, American http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/brink-race-stop-collapse-global-financial-system-unabridged Download On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world's most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression. Major institutions including Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and Citig...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/brink-race-stop-collapse-global-financial-system-unabridged Henry M. Paulson On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:41:23 -0000 Bios, Memoirs, Political Figures, History, 21st Century, Nonfiction, Economics http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/big-fail-unabridged Download Too Big to Fail (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/big-fail-unabridged Andrew Ross Sorkin Too Big to Fail (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:41:24 -0000 History, 21st Century, Nonfiction, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/train-hiroshima-survivors-look-unabridged Download The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: Last Train from Hiroshima offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb's survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written. At the narrative's core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand - the Japanese civilians on the ground and the American fliers in the air. Thirty people are known to have...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/train-hiroshima-survivors-look-unabridged Charles Pellegrino The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:41:45 -0000 History, 20th Century, History, World http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/america-prophet-moses-american-story-unabridged Download America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: The exodus story is America's story. Moses is our real founding father. In this groundbreaking book, New York Times best-selling author Bruce Feiler travels through touchstones in American history and traces the biblical prophet's influence from the Mayflower through today. Feiler visits the island where the pilgrims spent their first Sabbath, climbs the bell tower where the Liberty Bell was inscribed with a quote from Moses, retraces the Underground Railroad where "Go Down, Moses" was the ...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/america-prophet-moses-american-story-unabridged Bruce Feiler America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:42:20 -0000 History, American http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/poisoner-handbook-murder-birth-forensic-medicine-jazz-age Download The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook , Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/poisoner-handbook-murder-birth-forensic-medicine-jazz-age Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:42:49 -0000 History, 20th Century, Nonfiction, True Crime http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/people-history-united-states-1492-present-unabridged Download A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up - from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War - from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror" - A P...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/people-history-united-states-1492-present-unabridged Howard Zinn A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:42:58 -0000 History, American http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/history-medieval-world-conversion-constantine-first-crusade-unabridged Download The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the 12th centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they tur...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/history-medieval-world-conversion-constantine-first-crusade-unabridged Susan Wise Bauer The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:43:01 -0000 History, Ancient http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/coming-third-reich-unabridged Download The Coming of the Third Reich (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich , Richard Evans, one of the world's most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler an...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/coming-third-reich-unabridged Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:43:02 -0000 History, 20th Century, History, European http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/twelve-caesars-unabridged Download The Twelve Caesars (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: From the dignified grace of Augustus to the cruel debauchery of Nero, this history chronicles all the vices and virtues of the first 12 rulers of Imperial Rome. The Twelve Caesars was written based on the information of eyewitnesses and public records. It conveys a very accurate picture of court life in Rome and contains some of the raciest and most salacious material to be found in all of ancient literature. The writing is clear, simple and easy to understand, and the numerous anecdotes o...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/twelve-caesars-unabridged Suetonius The Twelve Caesars (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:14:42 -0000 Bios, Memoirs, Political Figures, History, Ancient http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/constantine-conversion-europe-unabridged Download Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: The turmoil, both physical and mental, which the Roman Empire underwent during the chaotic third century, resulted in a Greco-Roman culture which was essentially exhausted. For a thousand years this culture had spread itself over the Mediterranean world in roughly the same recognizable architecture, law, art and religion. By the end of Diocletian's reign in the opening years of the fourth century, the pagan world had collapsed into the arms of a multicultural religious movement which had spre...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/constantine-conversion-europe-unabridged Arnold Jones Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:18:52 -0000 History, Ancient, Religion, Spirituality, Christianity http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/koran-short-introduction-unabridged Download The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its 15th century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the Koran, both in the modern world and in that of traditional Islam. He gives vivid accounts of its role in Muslim civilization, illustrates the diversity of interpretations championed by traditional and modern commentators, discusses the processes by...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/koran-short-introduction-unabridged Michael Cook The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:18:57 -0000 History, World, Religion, Spirituality, Islam http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/taking-world-unabridged Download Taking on the World (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: On February 11th, 2001, Ellen MacArthur sailed into port in France, completing the Vendee Globe, the world's toughest race. Alone and unsupported, she had spent more than three months at sea and had coped with storms, exhaustion, rigging failures, and a catastrophic collision with a submerged object. But Ellen never gave up and, at the age of 24, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. This is Ellen's story, from her childhood in land locked Derbyshire, to that historic race.... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/taking-world-unabridged Ellen MacArthur Taking on the World (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:20:03 -0000 History, Extraordinary Lives, Sports, Other, Travel, Adventure, Adventure, Exploration, Travel, Adventure, Essays, Travelogues http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/peloponnesian-war-volume-2-unabridged Download The Peloponnesian War, Volume 2 (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: If ever a tragedy of Olympian proportions could be ascribed to an historic event, it would surely be appropriate to use that term in relation to the great city state of Athens. John Ruskin referred to the Peloponnesian War as "the suicide of Greece". It is an apt phrase. For never in history has a community reached such sublime heights of civilized life only to plummet to ignominious defeat within a single lifetime. In one of the great coincidences of history, Thucydides was enabled to observ...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/peloponnesian-war-volume-2-unabridged Thucydides The Peloponnesian War, Volume 2 (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:16:44 -0000 Education, Higher Education, Higher Education Faculty, Faculty, Higher Education Faculty, Students, History, Military, History, World http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/persian-wars-volume-2-unabridged Download The Persian Wars, Volume 2 (Unabridged) Audio Book | Audio Book Summary: Starting with Book Five, Volume 2 of The Persian Wars enters directly into the intrigues between the Greeks and Persians. Darius, infuriated with Athens because of her support for the liberation of the Ionian Greeks, initiates the first invasion of Greece, which ends with the Athenian victory at Marathon in 490 B.C. When Xerxes ascends the Persian throne a few years later, the war is resumed on a vastly greater scale. In some of the most wonderful prose of all time, Herodotus describes the ...... Find out more at CastLibrary.com http://www.castlibrary.com/audio_books/persian-wars-volume-2-unabridged Herodotus The Persian Wars, Volume 2 (Unabridged) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:20:23 -0000 Education, Students, Higher Education Faculty, Faculty, Higher Education Faculty, Students, History, Ancient, History, World, K-12 Educators, Grade 9-12, Parents, Family, College Students, Parents, Family, Grade 9-12 Students, Students, College Students, Students, High School