History audiobooks

Black Virgin Mountain

By: Larry Heinemann

Narrated by: Larry Heinemann

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Read more

New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: New Market. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and... Read more

Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Chickamauga. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and ... Read more

Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Shiloh. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives of... Read more

Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Cold Harbor. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Opening Day

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for... Read more

The Wilderness and Spotsylvania: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: The Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and... Read more

The Last Tycoons

By: William Cohan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 32 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank

Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its... Read more

Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Petersburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Gettysburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives... Read more

Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and... Read more

Vicksburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Vicksburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives... Read more

Amazing Grace

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.



At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and... Read more

Einstein

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

Edith Wharton - Abridged

By: Hermione Lee

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf.
Born in 1862, Edith Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary... Read more

Einstein - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

Spitfire Ace - Abridged

By: Martin Davidson

Narrated by: Steven Pacey, Tyler Butterworth & David Shaw Pa...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Battle of Britain, 1940, was one of the most famous air battles in the history of warfare and it is a story of ruthless organisation, brilliant control and command. But at its heart is one particular figure, a legend ever since - the RAF fighter pilot. And one particular plane - a piece of machinery that has almost mythic historical glamour... Read more

Piraten

By: Rainer Schnocks & Jens Thelen

Narrated by: Annette Dielentheis

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Piraten zeigt uns einige der schillerndsten Figuren, die diese Berufssparte hervorgebracht hat. Über Jahrhunderte ließen sich ehrgeizige Regenten durch Männer wie Henry Morgan oder Francis Drake ihre Kassen füllen. Mutige und unerschrockene Männer auf beiden Seiten ließen ihr Leben im Kampf um Gold und teure Handelsgüter. Sie begründeten den... Read more

Die Tempelritter

By: Rainer Schnocks & Jens Thelen

Narrated by: Annette Dielentheis

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie waren das stehende Heer der christlichen Welt. Sie waren die Revolution der Kriegskunst durch ihre einzigartige Verbindung von Mönchstum mit Soldatenhandwerk. Einst gegründet um die Pilger auf dem Weg ins heilige Land zu schützen, entwickelten Sie schnell auch weltliche Interessen. In kürzester Zeit wurden die Tempelritter zu den ersten... Read more

Ägypten & die Pharaonen

By: Rainer Schnocks & Jens Thelen

Narrated by: Annette Dielentheis

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Das alte Ägypten ist ein Phänomen für die Wissenschaft und ein beständiger Quell neuer Hypothesen und abenteuerlicher Theorien. Die vorliegende Hördokumentation beschäftigt sich mit dem Alltag des Pharaonenvolkes, von der Einigung unter- und Oberägyptens über den Pyramidenbau bis zum Einfluss der Römer. Wir betrachten eingehend die Ägyptomanie... Read more

Forensik - Die Tatortermittler

By: Rainer Schnocks & Jens Thelen

Narrated by: Annette Dielentheis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Forensiker sind die Wissenschaftler der Kriminalistik. Sie sichern Beweise und stellen Zusammenhänge zu vorliegenden Verbrechen dar. Ihre Arbeit führt die Beamten auf die Fährte des Täters. Wie sie Spuren sichern und mit welchen Techniken Forensiker dabei vorgehen ist das Thema der Hördokumentation Forensik - Die Tatortermittler. Read more