History audiobooks

The Conquering Family

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with The Conquering Family and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.
The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through... Read more

Cléôpatre

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Elie Axas

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Partons à la découverte de Cléopâtre, ce personnage de légende, à la beauté éclatante. Reine d'Egypte, cultivée, ambitieuse et intelligente, Cléopâtre influence son époque. Aimée par Jules César, maître de Rome, puis par Marc Antoine, elle finit par entrer dans l'Histoire par sa destinée tragique. Au-delà du mythe, découvrons le personnage... Read more

Everest

By: Michael R. Breckon

Narrated by: Earl Pennington

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This unique sound history of Everest was produced to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The interviews were carried out during 1982 and 1983. The story is told by :Sir Edmund Hillary, Ronald Faux, Colin G. Crawford, Noel Odell, Walt Unsworth, Chris Bornington, Sir Jack Longland,... Read more

Napoléon

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Philippe Dormoy, Will Maes & Nathan Maes

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Vous allez découvrir l'Histoire de France, de la Révolution à l'Empire, en suivant Napoléon, ce personnage de légende, devenu Empereur des français à 35 ans. C'est avec enthousiasme que Philippe Dormoy nous raconte la destinée incroyable de Napoléon Bonaparte, en répondant aux questions de Nathan, 9 ans. Nous allons parcourir le monde, de la... Read more

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

By: Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas

Narrated by: David Strathairn & Richard Dreyfuss

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This star-studded recording brings to life a history-changing political battle.The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made history and changed its course through seven legendary match-ups between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Illinois senatorial race. Although he lost the election, Lincoln's gift for oratory and his antislavery stance... Read more

Marie Antoinette Reine de France

By: Patrick Martinez-Bournat

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Notre histoire commence à Paris le 13 juillet 1793, à la prison du Temple. Marie-Antoinette, prisonnière dans sa cellule, n'est plus reine de France. La reine déchue sait qu'elle va bientôt être séparée de son enfant pour toujours. Dans quelques mois, elle sera exécutée place de la Révolution. Elle profite de ses derniers instants avec son fils... Read more

Jules César - Abridged

By: Plutarque

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Général et homme politique romain (100-44 av. J.-C.), Jules César créa les bases du système impérial romain. Son destin exceptionnel marqua le monde romain et l'histoire universelle : ambitieux et brillant, il s'appuya sur le courant réformateur et démagogue pour son ascension politique ; stratège et tacticien habile, il repoussa les frontières... Read more

Alexandre le Grand - Abridged

By: Plutarque

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexandre le Grand (ou Alexandre III de Macédoine, né le 21 juillet 356 avant J.C à Pella, mort le 13 juin 323 avant J.C à Babylone) est l'un des personnages les plus célèbres de l'Antiquité. Fils de Philippe II, élève d'Aristote et roi de Macédoine depuis 336 avant J.C, il devient l'un des plus grands conquérants de l'histoire. Il fait de son... Read more

Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Suze Orman

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

2009: The Year You Can’t Afford to Make Any Mistakes with Your Money.

The credit crunch, the stock market freefall, the staggering toll of home foreclosures and job losses: The economic crisis that struck in 2008 has left no one untouched and everybody reeling. Seemingly overnight, the financial landscape has undergone seismic changes that... Read more

Lincoln - Abridged

By: Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, II...

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An audiobook to be treasured by all history buffs: the companion volume to the ABC TV documentary.

This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy,... Read more

The Bitter Road to Freedom

By: William I. Hitchcock

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are justly proud of the role the United States played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of the Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest generation," Americans often... Read more

Stealth Jihad

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Most terrorism experts agree: it is not "if" we are attacked again, but "when." Yet the assault has already happened. A silent battle is being waged on our nation every day. Not with guns and bombs, but via covert sources: Islamic charities, the ACLU, even presidential candidates. They are all pawns in a stealth holy war, unwittingly advancing... Read more

The Invention of Air

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers.

The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and... Read more

A License to Steal

By: Walter T. Shaw

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of... Read more

FDR

By: Anthony J. Badger

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933 confronting twenty-five-percent unemployment, bank closings, and a nationwide crisis in confidence. Between March 9 and June 16, FDR sent Congress a record number of bills, all of which passed easily. With reforms ranging from the legalization of alcohol to mortgage relief for millions of... Read more

Abraham Lincoln - Abridged

By: George S. McGovern

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on... Read more

The Ascent of Money

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bread, cash, dough, loot, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress. What's... Read more

Die griechisch-römische Antike: Eine Einführung - Abridged

By: Hartwin Brandt

Narrated by: Hartwin Brandt

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Antike (ca. 1200 vor Christus ca. 500 nach Christus) ist hochaktuell: Das heutige Europa mit seiner Bürgergesellschaft und der Demokratie, mit der bedeutenden Rolle von Religion(en) und Kirche(n), mit seinem Städtewesen, mit seiner Verwaltung und seinem Rechtssystem fußt in vielerlei Hinsicht auf der griechisch-römischen Antike. Moderne... Read more

Che Guevara

By: Jon Lee Anderson

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 36 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This acclaimed national bestseller is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Anderson traces Che’s extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the... Read more

Canossa - Die Entzauberung der "Welt" - Abridged

By: Stefan Weinfurter

Narrated by: Stefan Weinfurter

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Canossagang Heinrichs IV. im Winter 1076/77 gehört zu den geschichtlichen Ereignissen des Mittelalters, die im kollektiven Gedächtnis fest verankert sind. Das große Interesse an diesem Thema entspricht durchaus der historischen Bedeutung der Vorgänge um Canossa, mit denen die Grundlagen für die Trennung von"Kirche"(sacerdotium)... Read more

Das Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation im Mittelalter - Abridged

By: Stefan Weinfurter

Narrated by: Stefan Weinfurter

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In einem Zeitraum von 1.000 Jahren bildete sich das Reich heraus, das am Ende des Mittelalters den Titel "Heiliges Römisches Reich deutscher Nation" trug. Aus dem fränkischen Reich der Merowinger und Karolinger löste sich allmählich ein politisches Gebilde heraus, das die Grundlagen für das spätere Deutschland darstellen sollte. Was waren... Read more

Albert Einstein - Ein Portrait - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) kennt jeder, auch wenn er sich kaum für Wissenschaft interessiert. Wir kennen sein Gesicht (das uns die Zunge herausstreckt), seine Friedensliebe und seine Ansicht, dass Gott nicht würfelt. Einstein ist kurz nach dem 1. Weltkrieg zum Weltstar der Wissenschaft geworden, als bei einer Sonnenfinsternis sorgfältige... Read more

Gewaltexzesse antiker Tyrannen - Abridged

By: Martin Zimmermann

Narrated by: Martin Zimmermann

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Antike: Blutige Kriege, geisteskranke Despoten und grausame Gladiatoren stehen für eine Zeit, in der die Menschen besonders verroht erscheinen. Bei näherer Betrachtung stellt sich aber heraus, dass die antiken Zeitgenossen Gewalt ebenso verabscheuten wie wir heute. Wie sind dann aber die vielen Berichte über Gewalttaten gerade bei Tyrannen... Read more

Die griechische Polis: Stadt und Bürgergemeinde - Abridged

By: Martin Zimmermann

Narrated by: Martin Zimmermann

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die griechische Polis ist die wohl wichtigste Urform staatlicher Organisation im Abendland. Auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Entwicklung ist mit ihr die kulturelle Blüte des antiken Griechenlands verbunden. Diese spezielle Form des griechischen Stadtstaates war zudem die Keimzelle der Demokratie wie verschiedener anderer Verfassungsmodelle, die noch... Read more