History audiobooks

The Airmen and the Headhunters

By: Judith M. Heimann

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet—and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of... Read more

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

By: Michael Green & Theda Perdue

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000,... Read more

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2

By: Edward Gibbon

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 40 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Famous for its unflagging narrative power, fine organization, and irresistibly persuasive arguments, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has earned a permanent place of honor in historical literature. Gibbon's elegantly detached erudition is seasoned with an ironic wit, and remarkably little of his work is outdated.This second volume covers... Read more

Max Planck - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Max Planck (1858 - 1947) gehört zu den Menschen, vor denen man sich verneigen sollte. Planck war groß als Physiker und sein Name ist - mindestens durch das Plancksche Quantum der Wirkung - unsterblich geworden. Sein Name wird durch die (seit 1948) nach ihm benannte Gesellschaft in alle Welt verbreitet. Er war überzeugend als Philosoph, wobei... Read more

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I

By: Edward Gibbon

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 41 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its epic scope. Remarkably accurate for its day, Gibbon's treatise holds a high place in the history of literature and remains an enduring subject of study.Gibbon's... Read more

An Inconvenient Book - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, tackles some of our country’s biggest problems in this funny, outrageous, and entertaining book.

Glenn Beck believes that the reason why some of our biggest problems never seem to get fixed is simple: the solutions just aren’t very convenient. And as the host of a nationally... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible

By: Robert J. Hutchinson

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bible remains the bestselling book of all time, believed by nearly two billion people (Christians and Jews) to be divinely inspired. But in this hard-hitting new book, author Robert J. Hutchinson argues that it is actually much more than this. The ideas enshrined in the Bible, he says, triggered a revolution in human thought and established... Read more

Prinzessin Diana

By: Rainer Schnocks & Bettina Arlt

Narrated by: Annette Dielentheis

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Am 31. August 1997 schied eine Frau aus dem Leben, deren Popularität bis heute ungebrochen ist: Lady Diana Spencer, die Prinzessin von Wales und Mutter des zukünftigen britischen Thronfolgers. Mit ihrem politischen und sozialen Engagement sowie ihren spektakulären Auftritten erregte Lady Diana stets großes Aufsehen - nicht immer zum Vorteil der... Read more

Klimawandel

By: Rainer Schnocks & Bert Stevens

Narrated by: Jan Weller

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum ein Thema ist in den letzten Jahren so in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt wie der Klimawandel. Die vorliegende Dokumentation schildert spannend und anschaulich die Geschichte dieses Phänomens und erklärt die wichtigsten Begriffe und Zusammenhänge. Wie funktioniert der Regenwald und warum ist er für das Erdklima so... Read more

Der wilde Westen

By: Rainer Schnocks & Volker Brandt

Narrated by: Raimond Forkert

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Hördokumentation DER WILDE WESTEN beleuchtet das Leben von Revolverhelden, Cowboys, Indianern und windigen Geschäftemachern ebenso wie die Gründe für Aufstieg und Fall einer der spannendsten Epochen US-amerikanischer Geschichte. Wie sahen die Westernstädte wirklich aus? War der Wilde Westen ein düsteres Deadwood oder eine heile Bonanza-Welt?... Read more

Hollywood

By: Rainer Schnocks & Bert Stevens

Narrated by: Jan Weller

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Skandale sind das Salz in der Suppe der Filmschaffenden. Sie können binnen Stunden ein Studio ruinieren oder die Kinokassen klingeln lassen. Die Traumfabrik reagiert wie ein Seismograf auf das nächste Beben, das ein neuer Skandal in Hollywood auslöst. HOLLYWOOD - SODOM UND GOMORRA beschäftigt sich mit den wichtigsten Skandalen der Filmmetropole... Read more

McIlhenny's Gold

By: Jeffrey Rothfeder

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects. The South's economy in ruins and his millions of dollars in Confederacy currency worthless, he had no choice but to return with his wife, Mary, to her family home in Avery Island, a former sugar plantation destroyed by... Read more

Gomorrah

By: Roberto Saviano

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra... Read more

Heroic Conservatism

By: Michael J. Gerson

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Gerson, who worked with George W. Bush on his most inspiring speeches, is considered by many Democrats and Republicans to be the most influential White House speechwriter since the Kennedy administration. He was also more than a speechwriter, he was a trusted insider who helped shape policy.In Heroic Conservatism Gerson uses his own... Read more

Why Marines Fight

By: James Brady

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As the war in Iraq continues, the idea of being a soldier in wartime is of interest to many Americans. Why Marines Fight by James Brady is a ruthlessly candid book told in the words of U.S. Marines themselves, who answer provocative questions about what drives them to fight and why so competently and ferociously.



For more than two centuries, U.S.... Read more

The Fall of the House of Bush - Abridged

By: Craig Unger

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How Did This Happen?

The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy fiasco in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and this story has never been fully told, until now.

From Craig Unger, the author of the bestseller... Read more

One Man Great Enough

By: John C. Waugh

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln is the central axis of this story about America’s seemingly unstoppable march toward war, the shattering of its political landscape, and its grappling with the moral underpinnings of a republic of the people, by the people, and for the people.Here are such key events as the Mexican-American War, the Dred Scott Case, westward expansion,... Read more

Was passiert in Russland?

By: Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

Narrated by: Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Als ARD-Korrespondentin hat sie die Jahre des Umbruchs in der Sowjetunion miterlebt und die darauf folgende Entwicklung Russlands genau beobachtet. Gabriele Krone-Schmalz weist auf die Diskrepanzen zwischen der russischen Realität und den Stereotypen in der westlichen Wahrnehmung hin. Sie stellt sich der Herausforderung, bewusste und... Read more

The Key to the Da Vinci Code

By: Crombie Jardine

Narrated by: Stewart Ferris

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the Da Vinci code and what is all the fuss about? Despite being a work of fiction, the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has a plot based on a number of concepts and ideas that the author claims to be true. This book explores the locations, historical facts and theories, and the sources of inspiration behind the novel in order to... Read more

The Two Marys

By: Sylvia Browne

Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

America's leading psychic explores unanswered questions about the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene from her unique perspective—as someone familiar with this world and the next.

No conversation about Jesus Christ is complete without a discussion of the two Marys—one his mother, and the other his wife. Sylvia Browne's readers are deeply committed... Read more

Boom!

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line... Read more

A Slave No More

By: David W. Blight

Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.

Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama... Read more

Boom! - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line... Read more

A Slave No More - Abridged

By: David W. Blight

Narrated by: David W. Blight, Richard Allen & Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.

Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama... Read more