12 Best Religious, History Books
Religious, History is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Religious, History audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Religious, History audiobooks below.
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Tap Code
- By: Carlyle S. Harris
- Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.37(718 ratings)
4.37(718 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDiscover never-before-told details of POW underground operations during the Vietnam War told through one airman’s inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage. Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down overDiscover never-before-told details of POW underground operations during the Vietnam War told through one airman’s inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage.
Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965 and taken to the infamous Hoa Lo prison–nicknamed the¬†”Hanoi Hilton.” For the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs–including John McCain and George “Bud” Day–suffered torture, solitary confinement, and unimaginable abuse.
It was there that Smitty covertly taught many other POWs the Tap Code–an old, long-unused method of communication from World War II. Using the code, they could softly tap messages of encouragement to lonely neighbors and pass along resistance policies from their leaders. The code quickly became a lifeline during their internment. It helped the prisoners boost morale, stay unified, communicate the chain of command, and prevail over a brutal enemy.
Meanwhile, back home in the United States, Harris’s wife, Louise, raised their three children alone, unsure of her husband’s fate for seven long years. One of the first POW wives of the Vietnam War, she became a role model for other military wives by advocating for herself and her children in her husband’s absence.
Told through both Smitty’s and Louise’s voices,¬†Tap Code¬†shares the riveting true story of:
- Ingenuity under pressure
- Strength and dignity in the face of a frightening enemy
- The hope, faith, and resolve necessary to endure even the darkest circumstances
Praise for Tap Code:
“Tap Code is an incredible story about two American heroes. Col. “Smitty” Harris and his wife, Louise, epitomize the definition of commitment–to God, to country, and to family. This tale of extreme perseverance will restore your faith in the human spirit.”
–Brigadier General John Nichols, USAF
“The incomprehensibly long ordeal of the Harris family is agonizing. Their love, faith, loyalty, and courage epitomize all that is good about America.”
–Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (ret.), POW, Hanoi, 11/11/1966 to 3/4/1973
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To Love and Be Loved
- By: Jim Towey
- Narrator: Jim Towey
- Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.36(92 ratings)
4.36(92 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDFrom a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a “powerful” (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is “rich in reflection on contemporaryFrom a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a “powerful” (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is “rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity” (George Weigel).
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Mother Teresa was one of the most admired women of the 20th century, and her memory continues to inspire charitable work around the world. She believed the greatest need of a human being is to love and be loved. In 1948, she founded the Missionaries of Charity to work directly with the very poorest of Calcutta. From the efforts of one woman entering the slums of Entally, the Missionaries of Charity grew into an organization operating soup kitchens, health clinics, hospices, and shelters in 139 countries, at no cost to any government or to those who served. In 2016, she became Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Author Jim Towey had been a high-flying Congressional staffer and lawyer in the 1980s until a brief meeting with Mother Teresa illuminated the emptiness of his life. He began volunteering at one of her soup kitchens and using his legal skills and political connections to help the Missionaries of Charity. When Mother Teresa suggested he take up shifts at her AIDS hospice, Towey realized he was all in. Soon, he gave up his job and possessions and became a full-time volunteer for Mother Teresa. He traveled with her frequently, arranged her meetings with politicians, and handled many of her legal affairs.
To Love and Be Loved is an “inspiring and joyful” (Kirkus Reviews) firsthand account of Mother Teresa’s last years, and the first book ever to detail her dealings with worldly matters. We see her gracefully navigate the opportunities and challenges to leadership, the perils of celebrity, and the humiliations and triumphs of aging. We also catch her indulging in chocolate ice cream, making jokes about mini-skirts, and telling the President of the United States he’s wrong. Above all, we see her extraordinary devotion to God and to the very poorest of His children. Mother Teresa taught Towey to be more prayerful, less selfish, more humble, less worldly, move in love with God, and less in love with himself. Her lessons are here for all to share. -
Thomas Jefferson
- By: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.24(54 ratings)
4.24(54 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life andA revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life
Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity.
In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson’s idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history’s most studied figures.
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Abraham Lincoln
- By: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrator: Edward Lewis
- Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.16(315 ratings)
4.16(315 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDDespite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America’s most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation’s sixteenth president relates theDespite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America’s most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation’s sixteenth president relates the outward events of Lincoln’s life to his inner spiritual struggles and sets them both against the intellectual backdrop of his age.
This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of nineteenth-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical nineteenth-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today’s “culture wars.”
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Ashes
- By: Christopher de Vinck
- Narrator: Christopher de Vinck
- Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Inspire
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.13(208 ratings)
4.13(208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWINNER OF THE ‘FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR’ AT CRT 2021 Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the author discussing his inspiration for Ashes and his family’s history during World War II. A deeply touching novel about twoWINNER OF THE ‘FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR’ AT CRT 2021
Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the author discussing his inspiration for Ashes and his family’s history during World War II.
A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler’s Nazi occupation of Belgium and France. Based on true events.
For fans of All The Light We Cannot See and Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of a Belgium national hero, the famous General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels, is the eldest daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable.
But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, their resilience and strength are tested. Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee.
In an emotionally-charged race for survival, even the most harrowing horrors cannot break their bonds of love and friendship. The two teenage girls will see their innocence fall against the ugly backdrop of a war dictating that theirs was a friendship that should never have been.
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No Greater Glory
- By: Dan Kurzman
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.03(108 ratings)
4.03(108 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDuring the night of February 3, 1943, a torpedo shattered the side of the SS Dorchester off the coast of Greenland. The 904 men aboard, who would certainly have drowned, were saved, thanks to the tremendous bravery of the four chaplains aboard: theDuring the night of February 3, 1943, a torpedo shattered the side of the SS Dorchester off the coast of Greenland. The 904 men aboard, who would certainly have drowned, were saved, thanks to the tremendous bravery of the four chaplains aboard: the Reverend George L. Fox (Methodist), the Reverend Clark V. Poling (Dutch Reformed), Father John P. Washington (Roman Catholic), and Rabbi Alexander Goode (Jewish) who distributed life jackets to the troops, including, in the end, their own. No Greater Glory is a riveting story of four men of God who came from different backgrounds but found common ground in courageously serving God and country.
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The Making of Martin Luther
- By: Richard Rex
- Narrator: Richard Rex
- Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 03, 2017
- Language: English
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3.93(29 ratings)
3.93(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther’s career The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. RichardA major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther’s career The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German university developed a startling new interpretation of the Christian faith that brought to an end the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe. Luther’s personal psychology and cultural context played their parts in the whirlwind of change he unleashed. But for the man himself, it was always about the ideas, the truth, and the Gospel. Focusing on the most intensely important years of Luther’s career, Rex teases out the threads of his often paradoxical and counterintuitive ideas from the tangled thickets of his writings, explaining their significance, their interconnections, and the astonishing appeal they so rapidly developed. Yet Rex also sets these ideas firmly in the context of Luther’s personal life, the cultural landscape that shaped him, and the traditions of medieval Catholic thought from which his ideas burst forth. Lucidly argued and elegantly written, The Making of Martin Luther is a splendid work of intellectual history that renders Luther’s earthshaking yet sometimes challenging ideas accessible to a new generation of readers. Author bio: Richard Rex is professor of Reformation history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Queens’ College. His books include Tudors: The Illustrated History and Henry VIII and the English Reformation. He lives in Cambridge, England.
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Emma’s War
- By: Deborah Scroggins
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.81(1776 ratings)
3.81(1776 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDTall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her marriage to a rebel warlord spelledTall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her marriage to a rebel warlord spelled disastrous consequences for her ideals.
Enriched by Deborah Scroggins’ firsthand experience as an award-winning journalist in Sudan, this unforgettable account of Emma McCune’s tragically short life also provides an up-close look at the volatile politics in the region. It’s a world where international aid fuels armies as well as the starving population, and where the northern-based Islamic government—with ties to Osama bin Laden—is locked in a war with the Christian and pagan south over religion, oil, and slaves.
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America’s Prophet
- By: Bruce Feiler
- Narrator: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 06, 2009
- Language: English
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3.81(545 ratings)
3.81(545 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDBruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in ourBruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most fascinating and thought-provoking book to date, America’s Prophet delves deeply into how the Exodus story and America’s true “Spiritual Founding Father” have inspired many of the most important figures and defining events in this country’s history–from the Mayflower Pilgrims to the Civil Rights movement–and how Moses can provide meaning in times of national crisis, even today.
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Thomas Wolsey, the Late Cardinal
- By: George Cavendish
- Narrator: David Thorn
- Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.78(3 ratings)
3.78(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis extraordinary “eye-witness” account of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s rise and fall from power was written between 1554 and 1558 by his gentleman-usher, George Cavendish, who was privy to so much of the Cardinal’s ambitiousThis extraordinary “eye-witness” account of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s rise and fall from power was written between 1554 and 1558 by his gentleman-usher, George Cavendish, who was privy to so much of the Cardinal’s ambitious endeavors. However, Cavendish prudently waited a long time before chronicling his observations for fear of his life, as there were those who may have take his memoirs the wrong way.
Cavendish describes in great detail the daily life of Wolsey, listing his huge household of servants to give a good idea of the magnitude of this larger-than-life man who outdid Henry VIII in lifestyle and riches, which was his undoing. Throughout the book, he records Wolsey’s endless acquisitions of bishoprics—including the very rich monastery of St. Albans, even though he was never a monk—all to feather his already very wealthy nest. Cavendish also tells of Wolsey’s scheme to put himself over and above the Archbishop of York, the senior prelate in England, later to be named Pope. Wolsey is eventually charged with treason but dies in Leicester, and it is said that had he not died, he would have been more than likely subject to a beheading.
Cavendish also delves into the lives of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, the infamous Duke of Norfolk, and other prominent figures of the Tudor period, all to bring the sixteenth century to vivid life.
This rare document, considered “the most important single source for our knowledge of Wolsey,” was edited for easy comprehension by Roger Lockyer, a former faculty member of Royal Holloway College, University of London, and an authority on the tumultuous Tudor period which was so pivotal in England’s storied history.
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Louis D. Brandeis
- By: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.77(242 ratings)
3.77(242 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA riveting new examination of the leading progressive Supreme Court justice of his era According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness” inA riveting new examination of the leading progressive Supreme Court justice of his era
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness” in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism.
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Hitler in the Crosshairs
- By: Maurice Possley
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: May 03, 2011
- Language: English
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3.58(59 ratings)
3.58(59 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDDiscover the untold World War II story of a young man’s courage and the saga of a dictator’s pistol that continues to unfold today. It’s World War II. Young soldier Ira “Teen” Palm and his men burst into a MunichDiscover the untold World War II story of a young man’s courage and the saga of a dictator’s pistol that continues to unfold today.
It’s World War II. Young soldier Ira “Teen” Palm and his men burst into a Munich apartment, hoping to capture Adolf Hitler. Instead, they find an empty apartment … and a golden gun. As bestselling authors Maurice Possley and John Woodbridge explore the story of the man and the gun, they examine a time and place that shaped men like Palm and transformed them into heroes.
As you trace the unexpected journey of Hitler’s pistol within Hitler in the Crosshairs, you’ll also learn:
- The never-before-told account of an assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich
- The power of standing up for what you believe in
- How to find strength through your own faith
Praise for Hitler in the Crosshairs:
“Here’s a captivating tale of valor and devotion–to God, to spouse, to country–woven with newly disclosed details of an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler and the circuitous journey of Hitler’s personal pistol. A masterful piece of historical detective work!”
–Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Christ
“Readers of Hitler in the Crosshairs will not be able to put down this page-turning and remarkable story. From the initial chapter until the book’s concluding words, this fascinating account of courage, faith, and heroism is as gripping as it is deeply satisfying.”
–David S. Dockery, president of International Alliance for Christian Education
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