Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lost Empire - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of a dictator who uses false facts about Aztec history to further his claim to power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off... Read more

Odolaren sua - Abridged

By: Alberdania

Narrated by: Joxe Felipe Auzmendi

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eleberri hau garaiko argitaratzailearen paperen artean galduta zegoen eta XXI. mende honetan argitaratu da lehen aldiz. Kontakizun intimista eta hunkigarria da Odolaren sua. Baserri giroko Frantziako herri txiki batean gertatzen da dena, 30eko urteen hasieran. Silvio narratzaileak dirutza gastatu du munduan zeharkako bere ibilaldietan.... Read more

Chocolate Girls - Abridged

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Frances Barber

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Chocolate Girls, read by actress Frances Barber, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David.

Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen and, after losing her child from the marriage, she... Read more

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Abridged

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more

The Sands of Ammon - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.

In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King... Read more

Empire of Dragons - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Empire of Dragons is set in Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the meeting is a trap and the Emperor ends up in enemy hands, along with the commander of his personal... Read more

Und die Welt war jung - Drei-Städte-Saga, Band 1 (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Carmen Korn

Narrated by: Carmen Korn

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drei Familien, drei Städte in den Aufbruchsjahren 1. Januar 1950: In Hamburg, Köln und San Remo begrüßt man das neue Jahrzehnt. Gerda und Heinrich Aldenhovens Haus in Köln platzt aus allen Nähten. Heinrichs Kunstgalerie wirft längst nicht genug ab, um all die hungrigen Mäuler zu stopfen. In Hamburg bei Gerdas Freundin Elisabeth und ihrem Mann... Read more

Fräulein Gold - Schatten und Licht, Band 1 (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hulda Gold - nah am Leben, nah am Tod 1922. Hulda Gold ist Hebamme, clever, unerschrocken und im Viertel äußerst beliebt. Das Schicksal der Frauen liegt ihr besonders am Herzen. Zumal sie bei ihrer Arbeit nicht nur neuem Leben begegnet, sondern auch dem Tod. Im berüchtigten Bülowbogen, einem der vielen Elendsviertel der Stadt, kümmert sich Hulda... Read more

Fräulein Gold. Scheunenkinder - Die Hebamme von Berlin, Band 2 (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlin, 1923. Hebamme Hulda Gold wird zu einer Geburt ins Scheunenviertel gerufen. Die ju?dische Familie lebt nach ihren ganz eigenen, strengen Regeln, aber Hulda gewinnt das Vertrauen der jungen Mutter. Und als das Neugeborene nach wenigen Tagen verschwindet, wird sie unvermittelt in die rätselhafte Suche verstrickt. Denn wie kann ein Kind in... Read more

Английский дом - Abridged

By: Люси Уорсли

Narrated by: Чигинская Галина

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Почему в Средние века люди спали сидя? Почему два столетия называются "немытыми"? По какой причине дамы викторианской эпохи часто падали в обморок? Как люди обходились без туалетной бумаги? Почему боялись есть фрукты? Люси Уорсли отвечает на эти и многие другие вопросы в своем ярком рассказе об английском жилище, полном множества живописных,... Read more

Schwert und Krone - Preis der Macht - Das Barbarossa-Epos, Band 5 (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Gabriele Blum

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der krönende Abschluss von Sabine Eberts großem Mittelalter-Epos Friedrich Barbarossas Italien-Feldzug hat verheerend geendet. Nur mit Mühe entkommt er den Angriffen der Lombarden und der Seuche, die unter seinen Männern wütet. Währenddessen sind die Kämpfe zwischen Heinrich dem Löwen und seinen Feinden mit großer Heftigkeit von Neuem entflammt.... Read more

Lord of the Silent - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Irresistible….Amelia is still a joy.”
 —New York Times Book Review The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more... Read more

Fräulein Gold: Der Himmel über der Stadt - Die Hebamme von Berlin, Band 3 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlin, 1924. Hulda Gold arbeitet in der neuen Frauenklinik in Berlin-Mitte und versorgt dort die Frauen und ihre Neugeborenen. Die Geburtshilfe ist modern, Berlin am medizinischen Puls der Zeit. Doch es kommt zu einem tragischen Todesfall: Eine junge Schwangere stirbt bei einer Operation, die ausgerechnet der ehrgeizige Chef-Gynäkologe Egon... Read more

Restless - Abridged

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Rosamund Pike

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II... Read more

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more

Nefer the Silent - Abridged

By: Christian Jacq

Narrated by: Ezra Knight

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They built a civilization ahead of its time, and dominated the ancient world.
They defined an era of war, love, passion, power, and betrayal.
They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust -- but who inspire our awe and wonder even to this day....
The ancient Egyptians
They showed us how to live. And how to die.
Christian... Read more

Midnight Circus - Requiem of Dreams - Abridged

By: B.E. Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Fanny Bechert & Kai Hochhäusler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn deine Träume zum Greifen nahe sind – würdest du alles dafür opfern? Néeira träumt davon, eine Primaballerina an der Pariser Oper zu werden. Als der berühmte Midnight Circus ihr eine Stelle anbietet, nimmt sie an, denn jede bisherige Tänzerin dort hat es nach Paris geschafft. Allerdings verlangt ihr die Trapeznummer, die sie dafür... Read more

Four by L'Amour - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This set, newly released on compact disc, contains four thrilling dramatizations of Louis
L’Amour’s short stories, featuring all the excitement of the Wild West–the fierce passion and determination of the men and women who dared to tame the rugged terrain and call it their home, the... Read more

People of the River (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Margie Tompros, Ch...

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief--and the warrior woman he may never possess--are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces,... Read more

The Program - Abridged

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The series that started it all!In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.Called back into the... Read more

As the Crow Flies - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.

Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit... Read more

Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more

Ich, Maximilian, Kaiser der Welt (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Peter Prange

Narrated by: Wolfgang Condrus

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Er wird einmal über halb Europa herrschen - doch als Maximilian I. von Habsburg seiner Lebensliebe Rosina von Kraig begegnet, ist er noch ein "Bettelprinz", der sich am verarmten Wiener Kaiserhof nach Ruhm und Ehre sehnt. Angetrieben von seiner Idee, das alte römisch-deutsche Kaiserreich wiederaufzurichten, wirbt er um Marie, die Erbin von... Read more

La tumba del Papa - Abridged

By: Luis Reyes Blanc

Narrated by: Martín Quirós

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un thriller vaticano que se desarrolla en el marco de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hilo argumental es la búsqueda de la tumba y los restos del primer papa , san Pedro, a lo que se superpone el intento de las SS de apoderarse de dichos restos durante la ocupación nazi de Roma. El protagonista es un arquetipo de la incorrección política: varón,... Read more