History audiobooks

Desert Queen

By: Janet Wallach

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books... Read more

No Easy Day

By: Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of... Read more

Europe's Choice

By: Allan Little

Narrated by: Allan Little

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan Little investigates key moments and issues that brought the EU to the current crisis. In this three-part series, he looks at the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall, probes the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the... Read more

The Trouble Begins at 8

By: Sid Fleischman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy... Read more

The Secret History Of Social Networking

By: Rory Cellan-Jones

Narrated by: Rory Cellan-Jones

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the counterculture of the 197s through early bulletin board systems such as California's The WELL and the first networks on the World Wide Web, finding out how a geeky hobby became a mass phenomenon. He discovers how Facebook became the world's biggest social network, looks at the... Read more

The Power of the Prophetic Blessing

By: John Hagee

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a wonderful secret the Jewish people have known for centuries. A gift Christians have neglected for far too long. It is the life-transforming power of the "Prophetic Blessing." And in this remarkable audio book by pastor and New York Times best-selling author John Hagee, you'll learn what it is, the way it is presented throughout the... Read more

Wiki Geschichte - Der Erste Weltkrieg

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Zörr Tom

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Der Erste Weltkrieg Ein Wikipedia Hörbuch aus der Serie Geschichte. Weitere Informationen zu unseren Hörbüchern finden sie im Internet unter www.abod.de Der Erste Weltkrieg wurde von 1914 bis 1918 in Europa, dem Nahen Osten, in Afrika, Ostasien und auf den Weltmeeren geführt und forderte rund 17 Millionen Menschenleben. Annähernd 70 Millionen... Read more

The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill

By: Helen Shores Lee & Barbara Sylvia Shores

Narrated by: Valeri Ross

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family... Read more

Wikipedia Geschichte - Nationalsozialismus

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Zörr Tom

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Nationalsozialismus Ein Wikipedia Hörbuch aus der Serie Geschichte. Weitere Informationen zu unseren Hörbüchern finden sie im Internet unter www.abod.de Der Nationalsozialismus ist eine radikal antisemitische, rassistische, antikommunistische und antidemokratische Weltanschauung und politische Bewegung. Er entstand nach dem Ersten... Read more

Help Me to Find My People

By: Heather Andrea Williams

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide listeners back to devastating moments of family separation... Read more

Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Edmund Burke

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke’s opinion on whether France’s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries... Read more

Leading from Behind

By: Richard Miniter

Narrated by: Richard Miniter

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama has never been fully vetted—until now.

In the New York Times bestselling Leading from Behind, investigative journalist Richard Miniter presents the first book to explore President Obama's abilities as a leader, by unearthing new details of his biggest successes and failures. Based on exclusive interviews and... Read more

The Graves Are Walking

By: John Kelly

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A... Read more

Lincoln's Last Days

By: Bill O'Reilly & Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Edward Herrmann

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 1.5 million copies sold, Killing Lincoln deftly recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—of how one gunshot changed the country forever.

In Lincoln's Last Days, Bill O'Reilly masterfully adapts his historical thriller to appeal to a younger audience. Shorter text and abundant photographs make this is a useful,... Read more

Obama's Last Stand: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

By: Glenn Thrush & Politico

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of on the 2012 presidential election, POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 provides an unprecedented real-time account of the race for the White House. The third edition, Obama’s Last Stand, follows the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama as it struggles to find the winning formula in a political landscape that has changed dramatically... Read more

Wikipedia Geschichte - Die Weimarer Republik

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Robert Fink

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Weimarer Republik Ein Wikipedia Hörbuch aus der Serie Geschichte. Als Weimarer Republik wird das Deutsche Reich im Zeitraum von 1918/19 bis 1933 bezeichnet, als es eine demokratisch verfasste, parlamentarische Republik war. Die Epoche beginnt mit der Novemberrevolution und der Ausrufung der Republik am 9. November 1918 sowie mit der... Read more

Wikipedia Geschichte - Die Geschichte Deutschlands

By: Wikipedia

Narrated by: Martin Schülke

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Geschichte Deutschlands Ein Wikipedia Hörbuch aus der Serie Geschichte. Die Geschichte Deutschlands beginnt mit der Entstehung eines deutschen Königtums im 10. Jahrhundert. Die Bewohner waren Nachfahren von Germanen, Kelten und im Westen auch von römischen Siedlern und Legionären. Durch besondere Beziehungen zum Papsttum in Rom konnte... Read more

Picasso

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and... Read more

The Dark Side of Genius

By: Donald Spoto

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the man who changed people’s relationships with their showers forever, thanks to Psycho, this is the classic, Edgar Award–winning biography of the enigmatic and intensely private Alfred Hitchcock. One of America’s greatest film directors, his suspenseful subject matter ranged from the dark drama of a man possibly trying to kill his... Read more

Blizzard of Glass

By: Sally M. Walker

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

December 6, 1917, started like any other day in Halifax. But everything stopped shortly before nine o’clock that morning, when two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One of the ships was loaded with munitions for the troops fighting in Europe; the other was preparing to collect medical supplies for the war’s victims.

The resulting disaster was... Read more

Eminent Victorians

By: Lytton Strachey

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lytton Strachey published this book, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking readers and turned it upside-down. Four of the most eminent and idealized heroic figures of the Victorian age came under his witty and unsparing gaze and emerged, astonishingly enough, as human beings. His study of one of the most... Read more

Titanic: Voices From the Disaster

By: Deborah Hopkinson

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Peter Altschuler & Various

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

EARLY MORNING ON APRIL 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her glorious maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Thus the ship declared to be unsinkable was lost in one of the most infamous tragedies in history. Even now, a century later, the events surrounding the Titanic continue to haunt and... Read more

How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa

By: Henry M. Stanley

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting history is a firsthand account of the long and arduous search for one of the greatest explorers of the nineteenth century. Journalist and adventurer Henry M. Stanley was known for his search for the legendary David Livingstone, and their eventual meeting led to the popular quotation “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”A real-life... Read more

Smoke Signals

By: Martin A. Lee

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 21 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry.In 1996, California voters approved... Read more