History audiobooks

The Immortal Game - Abridged

By: David Shenk

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over.

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two... Read more

In the Name of the Father

By: Francois Furstenberg

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.



How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of... Read more

Babylon by Bus

By: Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann & Donovan Webster

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book. Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 02

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Geschichte der Deutschen - präsentiert von Herbert Rosendorfer, dem großen Erzähler mit der humorvollen Phantasie. Der zweite Teil beginnt bei den Staufern Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts und reicht bis zur Schlacht von Sempbach 1386. Mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe entführt uns Rosendorfer ins finstere... Read more

Das Leben ist eine Achterbahn

By: Martin Semmelrogge & Sonja Semmelrogge

Narrated by: Martin Semmelrogge

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Die fesselnde Autobiografie als Hörbuch - mit der unverkennbaren Stimme von Martin Semmelrogge. Der selbstironische Blick auf ein Schauspielerleben jenseits aller Klischees: Martin Semmelrogge schildert in einer aufrichtigen und schonungslosen Biografie der das Auf und Ab seines Lebens vor dem Hintergrund der Ereignisse seit den 50er Jahren.... Read more

Rosen für Apoll - Vol. 1

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Dieter Mann

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit ist ein großes Abenteuer - ein liebevolles, sarkastisches und melancholisches Abenteuer, wenn man es mit Joachim Fernau unternimmt. Von den Ursprüngen der Griechen in Mykene bis in die großen Stadtstaaten Athen und Sparta führt uns dieses Hörbuch. Dabei kommentiert Fernau bissig und voller Humor die "Ilias" und... Read more

Solange wir zu zweit sind

By: Max Volkert Martens

Narrated by: Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen & Imogen Kogge

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich der Große und Wilhelmine Markgräfin von Bayreuth in Briefen: "Ich habe dich nie so geliebt wie jetzt und nie wünschte ich mehr, dass du es glaubst!" Selbst in seiner Hochzeitsnacht schrieb der Kronprinz zärtliche Zeilen an seine Schwester Wilhelmine, die den Markgrafen von Bayreuth heiraten musste, damit Friedrich von seinem Vater aus... Read more

Halleluja - Abridged

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Dieter Mann

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"In Amerika muss immer die Rechnung stimmen; die Moral kommt später..." \n \nJoachim Fernau demontiert den "American Dream" und kommentiert scharfsinnig und provokant, wie schlecht die Chancen für die meisten "im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten" waren und sind. Unbeeindruckt vom Rausch des Aufstiegs, dem Rausch der Parolen und dem... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 01 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rosendorfer erzählt Geschichte, die fasziniert. Vor allem, wenn sie ein großer Geschichtenerzähler mit so klarem Wissen und in so unterhaltsamer Form darbringt, dabei unversehens ganz neue Zusammenhänge aufdeckt und mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe die wahren Triebfedern der Geschichte entlarvt. Herbert... Read more

Cäsar läßt grüßen - Abridged

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Norbert Langer

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Hörbuch macht tausend Jahre Römische Geschichte zu einem Abenteuer und vermittelt das Gefühl, selbst unter Römern gelebt und Cäsar, Augustus und Claudius kennen gelernt zu haben. Die Vergangenheit wird wieder lebendig und historische Gestalten werden zu Zeitgenossen, mit denen wir reden, lachen und weinen können. Erlebtes Abenteuer... Read more

Elisabeth. Kaiserin von Österreich, genannt Sisi - Abridged

By: Gabriele Praschl-Bichler

Narrated by: Sissy Höfferer

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elisabeth Amalia Eugenia, genannt Sisi, Herzogin in Baiern, der "Wildfang von Possenhofen", heiratete 1854 ihren Vetter, den jungen Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich. Die noch nicht Siebzehnjährige, unbeschwert aufgewachsen auf dem Landsitz in Possenhofen, litt sehr unter dem spanischen Protokoll und den zeremoniellen Zwängen am Wiener Hof, und... Read more

Fiasco - Abridged

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

Unabridged CDs - 20 CDs, 24 hours Read more

Basilica

By: R. A. Scotti

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the splendor—and the scandal—of the age. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe—the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave—to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled... Read more

The Long Tail

By: Chris Anderson

Narrated by: Christopher Nissley

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to... Read more

Conservatives Without Conscience

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of his national bestseller Worse Than Watergate, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement

In Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean places the conservative movement's inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally... Read more

Patriotic Fire

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two men who—against all expectations and odds—joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in December 1814.



It has all the ingredients of a high-flying... Read more

Churchill Remembered

By: Mark Jones

Narrated by: Winston Churchill

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full. From his earliest days Churchill was an ambitious character, eager for action. He achieved fame and popularity through his dispatches from the Boer War, and in 1900 was elected MP for... Read more

Roughneck Nine-One

By: SFC Frank Antenori, US Army (Ret.) & Hans Halbe...

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On April 6th. 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant First Class Frank Antenori's Special Forces A-Team (call sign Roughneck Nine One), fought a vastly superior force at a remote crossroads near the village of Debecka, Iraq. The enemy unit had battle tanks and 150 well-trained, well-equipped and well-commanded soldiers. The... Read more

Simple Courage

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”
–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and... Read more

Simple Courage - Abridged

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”
–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and... Read more

Keyboard Conversations®: The Romance of the Piano

By: Jeffrey Siegel

Narrated by: Jeffrey Siegel

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.

For information about the other titles in this series... Read more

The One Percent Doctrine - Abridged

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

2007 Audie Award Finalist for the Judges’ Award: Politics

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America's real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists—a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi.

Ron Suskind takes readers inside the defining conflict of our... Read more

The Millionaires' Unit

By: Marc Wortman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to... Read more

Exploring the New Story and the Future of Civilization

By: Anodea Judith

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Where are we on the human journey?  What monumental challenges are facing us as a human family and what hopeful rite of passage do we have ahead of us?  Anodea Judith, an author and prophet of our time, questions what history has wrought and the significance of it all.  "We live in a time that is both better and worse than ever before." Read more