Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shadow Song - Abridged

By: Terry Kay

Narrated by: Terry Kay

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more

Treason's Harbour - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 9th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series

All of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage; for the dockyards and... Read more

The Forest - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum

From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their... Read more

Forever - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Stevie Ray Dallimore

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains...forever.

From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His quest brings him... Read more

Death - Das Kabinett des Dr. Leng - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast, Band 21 (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Detlef Bierstedt

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie stoppt man einen Serienkiller, der seit 100 Jahren tot ist? Im 21. Abenteuer-Thriller der Bestseller-Autoren Preston & Child um FBI Special Agent Aloisius Pendergast geht es weit in die Vergangenheit zurück - buchstäblich! Nach außen ist Constance Green eine ebenso kluge wie bildhübsche Mittzwanzigerin - doch das Mündel von Special... Read more

Craven Street - Abridged

By: Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, Sir Nige...

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical drama is being published by Blackstone to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthdayThis production reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklin’s little-known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen years, he lived on Craven Street off... Read more

Slaves of Obsession - Abridged

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence. For two of the guests are... Read more

The Emperor's General - Abridged

By: James Webb

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through.

But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his... Read more

Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows - Abridged

By: Jane Austen & August Kotzebue

Narrated by: a full cast, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Den...

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The unlikely heroine of this novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule for the young Bertram sisters (Maria and Julia), and is relentlessly bullied by her manipulative and penny-pinching aunt,... Read more

Deus Lo Volt! - Abridged

By: Evan S. Connell

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magisterial work of historical imagination-a stunningly immediate, first-person account of one soldier's experience of the defining war of Christendom. Read more

Gone for Soldiers - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: George Hearn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In... Read more

Vanished - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son.

In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the... Read more

The Lincoln Myth - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours
 
September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from... Read more

El secreto de su mente - Abridged

By: Marie Benedict

Narrated by: Isabel Casas

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ella cambió el mundo de la ciencia. Tres hombres se llevaron el crédito Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahí da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está segura, cambiarán el mundo de la ciencia. Lo único que ensombrece ese universo perfecto son sus compañeros, especialmente Maurice Wilkins, James Watson y... Read more

Mademoiselle Marthe und die Küche der Freiheit (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Renk

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine junge Frau erobert die Welt der französischen Küche 1889: Marthe wächst auf einem Hof in den Vogesen auf, ihre Großmutter bringt ihr bei Brot zu backen, ihre Mutter, eine hervorragende Köchin, wie man aus den einfachsten Zutaten wunderbare Gerichte zaubert. Als sie mit ihrer Mutter nach Paris zieht, taucht sie in eine neue Welt ein. Nicht... Read more

Vom Ende der Nacht (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Claire Daverley

Narrated by: Heike Warmuth

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Will und Rosie. Sie könnten gegensätzlicher nicht sein, und doch verlieben sie sich ineinander: verstohlene Blicke, Sonnenuntergänge am Lagerfeuer, Gespräche bis spät in die Nacht. Sie sind kurz davor, etwas Wunderbares zu beginnen. Bis eines Tages ihre Welt zerbricht. Auch wenn die Jahre vergehen, finden sie immer wieder zueinander und können... Read more

Cloud of Sparrows - Abridged

By: Takashi Matsuoka

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enter a world of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters in this “rousing tale of Shogun Japan” (New York Post) from the acclaimed author of Autumn Bridge.

“Triumphant . . . terrific . . . This is a riveting read, alternately playful and suspenseful.”—People

The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the... Read more

People of the Wolf (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Joseph Thornhill, ...

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of... Read more

The Mauritius Command - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the... Read more

People of the Earth (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Yasmin Tuazon, Tho...

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kidnapped from the Earth People as a child, White Ash learns the way of the Sun People as she grows into a beautiful woman. But the disturbing dreams that made her an outcast in her old tribe are becoming stronger and they foretell a frightening future of bitter cold, war and famine. When a hostile tribe massacres her adopted family, White Ash... Read more

Landser im Weltkrieg 5: Verstaubt sind die Gesichter – Mit der 2. Panzerdivision in Griechenland - Abridged

By: Hermann Weinhauer

Narrated by: Lukas Speitling

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fesselnde Landser-Geschichten in Romanheft-Länge Der vorliegende Band "Verstaubt sind die Gesichter" folgt dem Kradschützen Schubert sowie dem Panzerkommandanten Hesse während des deutschen Vormarsches in Griechenland. Über staubige Pisten rücken die schnellen Truppen der Wehrmacht tief ins Feindesland vor. Schon donnern britische... Read more

People of the Fire (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Joseph Thornhill, ...

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven thousand years ago, major climatic change was ushering in a 3,500 year drought. For a small band of pioneers in what is now Wyoming and the Montana Mountains, it was a time of fire. As they struggled valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior... Read more

The Fortune of War - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and... Read more

In den Schluchten des Balkan - Abridged

By: Kurt Vethake & Karl May

Narrated by: Walter Prüssing, Volkmar Olms, Wolfgang Reinsch...

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kara Ben Nemsi nimmt mit Hadschi Halef Omar, dem Montenegriner Osko und dem jungen Omar Ben Sadek die Verfolgung von Barud el Amasat auf. Unterwegs kommt es zu zahlreichen Begegnungen mit allerlei düsteren Gestalten, die die Schluchten des Balkan bevölkern und entweder Schmuggler sind oder zur Bande des Schut gehören. Aber es gibt auch Männer... Read more