History audiobooks

Did Jesus Exist?

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait of the person at the heart of the Christian... Read more

The Long Walk

By: Brian Castner

Narrated by: Brian Castner

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would... Read more

Assignment to Hell

By: Timothy M. Gay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES

In February 1943, a group of journalists-including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney-clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A... Read more

Snow-Storm in August

By: Jefferson Morley

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington's first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and ''Star... Read more

Final Victory

By: Stanley Weintraub

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the ongoing cost of World War II. Despite gravely... Read more

Sua Sponte

By: Dick Couch

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment. They stand alone, even among our other Special Operations forces, as the most active brigade-sized force in the current Global War on Terrorism. Since 9/11, the Regiment has been the only continuously engaged unit in the Army and has had forty... Read more

September Hope

By: John C. McManus

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In September Hope, acclaimed historian John C. McManus explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. Operation Market-Garden is one of the war’s most famous, but least understood, battles, and McManus tells the story of the American contribution to this crucial phase... Read more

Explorations of Captain James Cook: An Introduction

By: John Lang

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain James Cook FRS RN (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the... Read more

Invictus

By: John Carlin

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament-the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was... Read more

Rez Life

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and... Read more

Kaffir Boy

By: Mark Mathabane

Narrated by: Mark Mathabane

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic story of life in apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in... Read more

Friedrich Wilhelm I. - Abridged

By: Jakob Wassermann

Narrated by: Markus Krochmann

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedrich Wilhelm I. König von Preußen - auch be-kannt als "Soldatenkönig" - schrieb über sich selbst einmal: "Mein ganzes Leben hindurch fand ich mich genötigt, zwei Leidenschaften anzuhängen, die ich nicht [sic!] hatte: eine war ungereimter Geiz und die andere eine ausschweifende Neigung für große Soldaten. Nur wegen dieser so sehr in die... Read more

Marc Aurel - Abridged

By: Theodor Birt

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Auf den Friedenskaiser Hadrian, der im Jahre 138 starb, folgten unter seinen beiden Adoptiverben Antoninus Pius und Mark Aurel vierzig weitere Jahre der Gerechtigkeit und zunächst zwanzig weitere Friedensjahre. Mark Aurel steht noch auf der Höhe Hadrians und hat Rom noch einmal vor den Germanen gerettet; gleich hinter ihm gähnt der Absturz Roms,... Read more

Die Sieben Weltwunder - Abridged

By: Ernst von Khuon

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Sieben Weltwunder des Alterstums sind jedem ein Begriff, aber welche sind es genau und was machte sie zu Weltwundern? Sieben mussten es sein, Sieben gilt als heilige Zahl. Ernst von Khuon geht auf Reise in die Vergangenheit und erweckt die Geschichte zum Leben. Ohne sie jemals selber gesehen zu haben, erkennen wir die Erhabenheit, die... Read more

Paul Schneider - Martyrium und Mahnung Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Allein in der Tat ist Freiheit - Abridged

By: Karl Würzburger & Johannes Kuhn

Narrated by: Kurt Haars, Irmgard Härter, Ingrid Fernolt, Hei...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Den Namen dürft ihr nicht vergessen! Paul Schneider ist unser erster Märtyrer!" So sprach Dietrich Bonhoeffer, als er von dessen Tod im KZ Buchenwald 1939 erfuhr. Paul Schneider und Dietrich Bonhoeffer widersetzten sich dem Totalitätsanspruch der Machthaber des Dritten Reiches. Redeverbot, KZ und Tod waren die Konsequenzen. Mit ihrem... Read more

Brian Eno

By: Alan Cross

Narrated by: Alan Cross

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of musician and producer Brian Eno's decades-long career. This look at Eno's influence -- "Musician, Producer; Artist, Philosopher; Oblique Strategies" -- is adapted from the audiobook of the same name. Read more

Little America

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Narrated by: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan.

When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani... Read more

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.

By: Sam Wasson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more

Das Judentum - Abridged

By: Friedrich Laubscher, Julius Kleefelder & Christ...

Narrated by: Jan Koester, W. Dannenhaus, W Wendt, M. Wiecke,...

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unter Judentum versteht man die Gesamtheit aus Geschichte und Kultur, Religion und Tradition, des sich selbst als Volk Israel bezeichnenden jüdischen Volkes. In dem ersten Teil des Hörbuches werden in einem anschaulichen Hörspiel Einblicke in das Judentum gegeben. Für den zweiten Teil wurden Sagen und Mythen, Legenden und Märchen, Parabeln und... Read more

Novalis - Abridged

By: Egon Fridell

Narrated by: Jan Köster

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedrich von Hardenberg, der als Künstler Novalis hieß, darf als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der Romantik gelten. Neben und nach ihm wirkten auch andre hochbegabte romantische Dichter und Schriftsteller, aber in keinem ist der romantische Geist so zu Fleisch und Blut geworden, wie in ihm: er ist gleichsam der Archetype der Romantik. Was... Read more

The Dogs of War

By: Lisa Rogak

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Military working dogs gained widespread attention after Cairo participated in the SEAL Team 6 mission that led to Osama bin Laden's death. Before that, few civilians realized that dogs served in combat, let alone that they could parachute from thirty thousand feet up.

The Dogs of War reveals the amazing range of jobs that our four-legged soldiers... Read more

L.A. Noir

By: John Buntin

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper... Read more

Wallenstein - Abridged

By: Jakob Wassermann

Narrated by: Markus Krochmann

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wallenstein, einer der bekanntesten Kriegsführer des 30jährigen Krieges, war zugleich auch eine der rätselhaftesten Erscheinungen der deutschen Geschichte. Nach den Vorstellungen Wallensteins sollte der Krieg den Krieg ernähren, und so entwickelte er ein Kontributionssystem zur Finanzierung seiner Armee. Damit stieg er zum mächtigsten... Read more

The Story of Earth

By: Robert M Hazen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and... Read more