American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By Chris Sorensen
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Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord.

Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Patrick K. O’Donnell
• Narrated By William Hughes
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In August 1776, a little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like there was no escape. But thanks to a series of desperate rear-guard attacks by a single heroic regiment, famously known as the Immortal 400, Washington was able to evacuate his men, and the nascent Continental Army lived to fight another day.

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Alan Taylor
• Narrated By Mark Bramhall
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.

Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Derek W. Beck
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, but over a year earlier, in April 1775. Now historian Derek Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence - from both sides. Spanning the years 1773 to 1776, this audiobook sweeps listeners from the Boston Tea Party to the halls of Parliament - where Ben Franklin was almost run out of England for pleading on behalf of the colonies.

Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Holger Hoock
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand.

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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In September 1776 the vulnerable Continental Army, under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle), evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war.

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs)
• By Robert Middlekauff
• Narrated By Robert Fass
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 57 mins)
• By John Ferling
• Narrated By David Baker
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In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."

Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Ferling
• Narrated By Neil Hellegers
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Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole - one that John Ferling's latest audiobook, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal to scholars and the most serious general listeners to microhistories that necessarily gloss over swaths of Independence-era history with only cursory treatment.

American Colonies: The Settling of North America: Penguin History of the United States, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Alan Taylor
• Narrated By Bob Souer
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 15 mins)
• By James D. Hornfischer
• Narrated By Pete Larkin
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One of America's preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive and ambitious book to date. Drawing on new primary sources and personal accounts of Americans and Japanese alike, here is a thrilling narrative of the climactic end stage of the Pacific War, focusing on the US invasion of the Mariana Islands in June 1944 and the momentous events that it triggered.

With Musket and Tomahawk Vol I: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Michael Logusz
• Narrated By Dennis Johnson

With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and personal detail, this book describes how the patriots of the recently organized Northern Army defeated England's massive onslaught of 1777, thereby all but ensuring America's independence.

April 19, 1775: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington & Concord

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Michael Piotrasch

April 19, 1775 was one of the most momentous days in American history. Over the course of nearly 18 hours, a morning that began with midnight riders spreading an alarm about a British raid headed for Concord would lead to the British column fleeing for their lives. By the time the sun went down, 10 years of strife between the 13 colonies and Great Britain finally boiled over into revolution.

MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Walter R. Borneman
• Narrated By David Baker
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World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. Macarthur at War goes deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R. Borneman is so skilled at conveying and exploring how personality and ego translate into military successes and failures.

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Walter Borneman
• Narrated By Brian Troxell
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Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. Navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet. In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time.

John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 49 mins)
• By James Traub
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning point in American politics, and a dedicated congressman who literally died in office - at the age of 80, in the House of Representatives, in the midst of an impassioned political debate.

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Alexander Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Pariseau
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all.

The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By John Oller
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British southern campaign. Like the Robin Hood of legend, Marion and his men attacked from secret hideaways before melting back into the forest or swamp. Employing insurgent tactics that became commonplace in later centuries, Marion and his brigade inflicted losses on the enemy that were individually small but cumulatively a large drain on British resources and morale.

Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Stephen W. Sears
• Narrated By George Guidall
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The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Mark R. Levin
• Narrated By Jeremy Lowell, Mark R. Levin

In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders' warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up. Levin returns to the impassioned question he's explored in each of his best-selling books: How do we save our exceptional country? Because our values are in such a precarious state, he argues that a restoration to the essential truths on which our country was founded has never been more urgent.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

• UNABRIDGED (44 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Carl Sandburg
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Charles B. MacDonald
• Narrated By Traber Burns
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On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked US forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieving what had been considered impossible - total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the US Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war. The brutal confrontation that ensued became known as the Battle of the Bulge, the greatest battle ever fought by the US Army - a triumph of American ingenuity and dedication.

African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Robert Gaudi
• Narrated By Paul Hodgson
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent of Africa was a hotbed of international trade, colonialism, and political gamesmanship. So when World War I broke out, the European powers were forced to contend with each other not just in the bloody trenches - but in the treacherous jungle. And it was in that unforgiving land that General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck would make history.

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Walter R. Borneman
• Narrated By Alan Nebelthau

This is a major political biography of a great American president - who won a war, transformed the government, and doubled the size of the United States...in four years. When Polk was sworn in as the 11th president, what followed was one of the most consequential presidencies in history.