Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

Chancellorsville

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Stephen Sears
• Narrated By Richard Davidson

A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War. Using scores of letters and diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate armies, Sears’ narrative history seeks to strip away the gloss of later commentary and restore the battle of Chancellorsville to its original voices.

The Battle of Shiloh: Personal Recollections from Generals to Privates

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
• By William T. Sherman, P G. T. Beauregard, Ulysses S. Grant, and others
• Narrated By Andrew Mulcare

At daybreak on April 6, 1862, Confederate forces launched a bold suprise attack on the Union army, encamped in southwestern Tennesse. The battle of Shiloh, also known as the battle of Pittsburg Landing, would prove to be the bloodiest battle up until that point in United Staes history. The two day battle would cost a staggering 23,000 casualties. Both sides were stunned at the appalling loss of life. At the time, neither realized that three more years of such bloodshed were still to come.

The Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Clifford Dowdey
• Narrated By Nicholas Tecosky

The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had routed General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years. The Seven Days depicts a critical turning point in the Civil War that would ingrain Robert E. Lee in history as one of the finest generals of all time.

Campaigns of the Civil War, Volume 1: The Outbreak of Rebellion

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By John G. Nicolay
• Narrated By Christopher Lee Philips

A landmark of Civil War History, The Campaigns of the Civil War series was originally published in 1881, and has often been reprinted in facsimile editions. The series still remains of interest to historians for its eye-witness accounts of political and military events, as well as its portrayals of the soldiers and statesmen who waged the conflict.

The Outbreak of Rebellion is the first of 12 volumes in this series to be produced in audiobook format by Audio Americana.

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943): The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Rick Atkinson
• Narrated By George Guidall
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.