History audiobooks

The Romantic Manifesto

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of... Read more

Out of Mao's Shadow

By: Philip P. Pan

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Prize-winning journalist Philip P. Pan offers an unprecedented inside look at the momentous battle underway for China's future. On one side is the entrenched party elite determined to preserve its authoritarian grip on power. On the other is a collection of lawyers, journalists, entrepreneurs, activists, hustlers, and dreamers striving to build... Read more

Rome 1960 - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world.


Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda... Read more

The Age of Reagan

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 22 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the Right has dominated American politics and... Read more

China - Das alte und neue Reich der Mitte - Abridged

By: Heinz Wagner

Narrated by: Claus Brockmeier & Martin Umbach

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Vor 2.200 Jahren vereinigte ein lokaler Fürst alle chinesischen Reiche zum ersten einheitlichen Staat, gründete das Reich der Mitte und ernannte sich selber zum ersten Kaiser. In einer wechselvollen Geschichte entstand die einzigartige Kultur Chinas, das sich selbst als Vielvölkerstaat versteht. Mit der Erfindung von Papier, Buchdruck,... Read more

Forbidden Fruit

By: Betty DeRamus

Narrated by: Bernadette Drayton, Yusef Miller, Kevin R. Free...

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist who rummaged through musty records and forgotten memoirs to resurrect this book's unsung heroes. Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses grieved deeply and... Read more

Storm from the East

By: Milton Viorst

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enlightening work,The New Yorker's longtime Middle East correspondent, Milton Viorst contends that today's Arab-American conflict is the latest round in a 1,400-year clash between Islam and Christianity. As Islamic power weakened, Ottoman Turks eventually swallowed up the entire Arab world by 1600. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed after... Read more

Spycraft

By: H. Keith Melton, Henry Robert Schlesinger & Rob...

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

—Secret instructions written in invisible ink



—Covert communications slipped inside dead rats



—Subminiature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens



If these sound like the stuff of science fiction or imaginary tools of James Bond's gadget-master Q's trade, think again. They are real-life devices created by the CIA's Office of Technical Service. Now, in... Read more

Sudelbücher - Abridged

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenstein

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über 30 Jahre lang vermerkte Lichtenberg in den 15 Bänden seiner heimlich geführten "Sudelbücher" bissige Blitzideen und spitze Kritiken, aufsässige Anmerkungen und ewige Weisheiten, muntere Verse und bissige Häme zu Politik und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Religion, Dünkel und Blasiertheit, Mann und Frau. Kein Wunder, dass er sie Zeit seines Lebens... Read more

Schopenhauer für Anfänger - Abridged

By: Susanne Möbuß

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Arthur Schopenhauers Hauptwerk "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" zählt zu den wirkungsmächtigsten philosophischen Schriften des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dies gilt nicht nur für den Bereich der Philosophie, sondern auch für Literatur und Kunst, für Psychologie und Anthropologie bis hin zur Sozialforschung. Das vorliegende Hörbuch bietet sich als... Read more

Die Völkerwanderung - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich, Uwe Kosubeck & Martin Umbach

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Römische Reich ist auf dem Zenit seiner Macht, da branden immer neue germanische Stämme an die Grenzen des römischen Imperiums, erschüttern das Reich in seinen Grundfesten. Waren es um 120 zunächst die Kimbern und Teutonen, die den Römern das Fürchten lehrten, so machten sich später auch die sagenumwobenen West- und Ostgoten auf den... Read more

Werner Heisenberg - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) war kreativer und ehrgeiziger als alle anderen Physiker seiner Generation. Er beherrschte bereits in frühester Jugend die Werkzeuge der Mathematik ebenso wie die Tasten des Pianos. Mühelos lernte er fremde Sprachen und fuhr rasant Ski. Er schüttelte vor allem grandiose, physikalische Ideen aus dem Ärmel und... Read more

Ark of the Liberties

By: Ted Widmer

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From its earliest beginnings, America has been seen as an icon of liberty with a mission to redeem the world. Often, the ideal fits. But sometimes even our most noble aspirations can be as damaging as they are uplifting. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, the inimitable Ted Widmer traces America’s wondrous history, from the Declaration of... Read more

Inventing Niagara

By: Ginger Strand

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with... Read more

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller presents this heart-rending story of a simple man whose life is cut short. Colton H. Bryant loves Wyoming and loves life. Mind over matter, he always says-"If you don't mind, it don't matter." And so, like his father and his father's father before him, he gets a... Read more

Baldwin's Harlem

By: Herb Boyd

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd, author of Sugar Ray Robinson's biography Pound for Pound, combines impeccable research with astute literary criticism in Baldwin's Harlem. Packed with telling anecdotes, this concise volume illuminates Baldwin's diverse views and his impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in... Read more

The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President

By: Geoff Shepard

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The controversial book that will change how people think about WatergateDrawing on his insider knowledge and previously unpublished documents, Geoff Shepard shows that it didn't take long for Ted Kennedy and his allies to smell blood after the Watergate break-in. They set out to exaggerate and prolong the scandal, not merely to destroy Richard... Read more

Touching History

By: Lynn Spencer

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Touching History is told through the eyes of commercial airline pilots, FAA and military controllers, jet fighters and key military personnel at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and its subunit Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), and the national FAA Command Center, whose personnel had to grapple with the bizarre and... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 05

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Rosendorfer erzählt im fünften Hörbuch seiner "Deutschen Geschichte" von der Zeit der Reformation und den Bauernkriegen, die verdeutlichen, dass die große Geschichte auf dem Rücken der kleinen Leute ausgetragen wird. Die neue Zeit drängt herein. Die Reformation schlägt ein Loch in die scheinbare Raum-Zeit-Konstante der bisherigen... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 06

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Rosendorfer erzählt eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte. Er zeigt, wie eine religiöse Auseinandersetzung zu einem europäischen Machtkampf wird, wie religiöser Fanatismus letztlich Verheerung und Verwüstung über ganz Europa bringt und dass Kriege, wenn man es genauer betrachtet, von beiden Seiten verloren... Read more

The Slaves' War

By: Andrew Ward

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.



Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and African American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told... Read more

Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 01

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen... Read more

Washington

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of... Read more

Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 02

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Joachim Steck

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen... Read more