History audiobooks
Der Thule-Orden - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Matthias Ponnier, Volker Risch & Marietta Bürger
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der Thule-Orden Die schwarze Macht des Dritten Reiches Der nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg ins Leben gerufene "Thule-Orden" gilt als organisatorisches Fundament der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung. Zu seinen Gründungsmitgliedern zählten Himmler, Streicher, Rosenberg und Hess. Doch so eindeutig, wie manche Historiker es darstellen, scheinen die... Read more
View audiobookDie Todesfahrt der "Wilhelm Gustloff" - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Matthias Ponnier, Eva Garg & Hans-Peter Goldbeck
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Todesfahrt der "Wilhelm Gustloff" Der Untergang der "Wilhelm Gustloff" war die größte Schiffskatastrophe aller Zeiten: Über 9.300 Menschen, darunter 5.000 Kinder, verloren am 30. Januar 1945 im eisigen Wasser der Ostsee ihr Leben. Zeitzeugen lassen die Geschichte des seinerzeit größten Dampfers der Erde noch einmal lebendig werden:... Read more
View audiobookDer Totenwald von Bialowieza - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Hendrik Stickan
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der Totenwald von Bialowieza Vormarschkämpfe der Heeresgruppe Mitte im Sommer 1941 Am 22. Juni 1941 trat die deutsche Heeresgruppe Mitte unter Feldmarschall von Bock zum Angriff auf die Sowjetunion an. Die Heeresgruppe sollte auf ihren Flügeln starke Kräfte vorantreiben, die russischen Verbände in Weißrussland zersprengen und... Read more
View audiobookWer regiert die Welt? - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Matthias Ponnier & Hans-Peter Goldbeck
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Wer regiert die Welt? Illuminaten, Neuptempler und Bilderberger Alles, was uns als "Wirklichkeit" verkauft wird, ist nur eine hübsch bemalte Fassade aus Pappmaschee. Politik ist eine Art Puppentheater, die Figuren auf der öffentlichen Bühne sind lediglich gut bezahlte Marionetten. Die Fäden, an denen sie zappeln, ziehen mächtige... Read more
View audiobookDer Zweite Dreißigjährige Krieg - Abridged
By: Gerd Schulze-Rohnhof
Narrated by: Matthias Ponnier & Eva Garg
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Der zweite Dreißigjährige Krieg" 1914 - 1945 Der für uns Deutsche ungewohnte Begriff des "Zweiten Dreißigjährigen Kriegs" stammt aus England. Die Briten umschreiben damit – in Anlehnung an die Geschehnisse der Jahre 1618 bis 1648, die in die Geschichtsschreibung als "Dreißigjähriger Krieg" eingegangen sind – den Zeitraum vom Beginn des... Read more
View audiobookO cerco de Paissandu - Abridged
By: Moreira de Azevedo
Narrated by: Tiago Torres
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Neste texto selecionado do livro "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", o historiador Moreira de Azevedo conta como foi o cerco e a tomada de Paissandu, quando as forças militares brasileiras, juntamente aquelas comandadas general uruguaio D. Venancio Flôres, reconquistaram Montevidéu, repelindo os revoltosos do partido blanco. Read more
View audiobookOtto von Bismarck - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes & Eva Garg
Narrated by: Matthias Ponnier
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Otto von Bismarck – Diplomat im Schatten der Macht Wir schreiben das Jahr 1847: Ein gerade mal 34-jähriger Gutsbesitzersohn zieht als Nachrücker in den Preußischen Landtag ein. Nichts Außergewöhnliches; wir könnten leicht darüber hinwegsehen, wenn er Müller, Meier oder Schulze geheißen hätte. Aber er hieß Otto von Bismarck, und damit... Read more
View audiobookHajo Herrmann - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Eva Garg
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Oberst a.D. Hajo Herrmann Erinnerungen eines deutschen Luftwaffenoffiziers Oberst a. D. Hajo Herrmann gilt heute als einer der herausragenden Zeitzeugen in Fragen des Luftkrieges. Denn der Jagd- und Kampfflieger berichtet über die Ereignisse vor und während des Zweiten Weltkrieges aus eigenem unmittelbaren Erleben in exponierten... Read more
View audiobookFliegst Du schon oder überlegst du noch - Abridged
By: Claudia Lanfranconi
Narrated by: Antonia Feuerstein, Dagmar Maya Hahn, Kornelia ...
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Frauen, die ihre Träume wahr machten, wollten meist hoch hinaus und bei ihren Bemühungen konnte sie niemand aufhalten. Sie haben sich gegen Väter, Mütter, Brüder, Lehrer und gesellschaftliche Konventionen gestellt, um abzuheben und die gläserne Decke zu durchbrechen. Kurzweilige Lebensgeschichten von spannenden Frauen, die den großen Sprung... Read more
View audiobookHoly Blood, Holy Grail - Abridged
By: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it... Read more
Bound for Canaan - Abridged
By: Fergus Bordewich
Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more
View audiobookSeven Years in Tibet - Abridged
By: Heinrich Harrer
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dramatized in a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes... Read more
View audiobookThe Innovators - Abridged
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.
What were the talents that allowed... Read more
Historia de la muerte en Occidente - Abridged
By: Philippe Ariés
Narrated by: Rojo Córdova
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Libro ineludible en la bibliografía que se ocupa de nuestra relación con la muerte y su papel en la configuración de un entorno cultural y las formas de intercambio que en él se desarrollan, los presentes ensayos de Philippe Ariès, desde su publicación por vez primera en 1975, se han convertido ya en un clásico. Concebidos en su origen como una... Read more
View audiobookMegatrends Asia - Abridged
By: John Naisbitt
Narrated by: John Nesbitt & Jesse Boggs
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's #1 trend forecaster reveals the global transformation that affects the future for us all!
The most momentous global development of the 1990s.
The #1 bestselling author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 now offers a glimpse of your future that begins on the other side of the globe -- where the once isolated nations of Asia are networking... Read more
Being Digital - Abridged
By: Nicholas Negroponte
Narrated by: Penn Jillette
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday
In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as... Read more
The City of Falling Angels - Abridged
By: John Berendt
Narrated by: John Berendt
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It is Berendt and only... Read more
View audiobookSchnick, Schnack, Schnuck (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged
By: Christoph Schulte-Richtering
Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Herrlich schlau und wunderbar komisch." Ralf Schmitz Charmant, witzig und kenntnisreich erzählt Christoph Schulte-Richtering die wichtigsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte nach - von Nero bis Fidel Castro, von den Kreuzzügen bis zum Mauerfall, von Karl V. bis zu dessen Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Urgroßschwipponkel. Read more
View audiobookKing For Kids: School and Family Edition - Abridged
By: Clayborne Carson
Narrated by: Martin Luther King Jr.
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For the first time, an edition of Martin Luther King's most important speeches and selected sermons are assembled specifically for school-age-children and families to listen to together.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of American history. In the 1950s and 1960s,... Read more
The Gift of Valor - Abridged
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: Yes
Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more
View audiobookLove and Louis XIV - Abridged
By: Antonia Fraser
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.
The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now,... Read more
Moralische Ambition - Wie man aufhört, sein Talent zu vergeuden und etwas schafft, das wirklich zählt (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged
By: Rutger Bregman
Narrated by: Julian Mehne
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dieses Buch handelt von Pionieren. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Menschen, die vor moralischer Ambition nur so strotzten: Abolitionisten, Suffragetten, Helden des Widerstands und Bürgerrechtlerinnen, von Menschen, die nicht nur Ideale hatten, sondern ihre Karrieren auch nach diesen Idealen ausrichteten - und den Lauf der Welt veränderten. Wie... Read more
View audiobookTeam of Rivals - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.
Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more
Longitudes and Attitudes - Abridged
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after.
As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most... Read more