History audiobooks

The Echoing Green - Abridged

By: Joshua Prager

Narrated by: Joshua Prager

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Untold Story Behind The Shot Heard Round The World

The 1951 regular baseball season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. Not once in the 278 preceding playoff and World Series games had a team overcome a three-run deficit in the... Read more

Comrades - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.

Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more

1638 Tage im Krieg - Abridged

By: Hagen Vockerodt

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hagen Vockerodt war als Soldat 1638 Tage in den Einsatzgebieten der Bundeswehr. Vom Kosovo und Bosnien über Thailand bis Afghanistan erlebt er immer wieder Tod und Verwundung. Als Medic und Fallschirmspringer flickt er verletzte Soldaten unter Beschuss zusammen. Inmitten der Zerstörung des Tsunamis in Banda Aceh desinfiziert er Massengräber und... Read more

Untergetaucht - Eine junge Frau überlebt in Berlin 1940 - 1945 (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Marie Jalowicz Simon

Narrated by: Nicolette Krebitz

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über fünfzig Jahre danach erzählt Marie Jalowicz Simon erstmals ihre ganze Geschichte. 77 Tonbänder entstehen - sie sind die Grundlage dieses einzigartigen Zeitdokuments. Offen und schonungslos schildert Marie, was es heißt, sich Tag für Tag im nationalsozialistischen Berlin durchzuschlagen: Sie braucht falsche Papiere, sichere Verstecke und... 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

México insurgente - Abridged

By: John Reed

Narrated by: Alejandro Salvador Ortega Álvarez

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

México insurgente representa el preludio de su labor como corresponsal de guerra y sus posteriores obras sobre los conflictos bélicos. Es un relato en primera persona, un testimonio de carácter épico de sus vivencias como acompañante de las tropas villistas y carrancistas en sus victorias y desventuras durante la Revolución mexicana, desde que... Read more

I'm in the Army Now - Abridged

By: Martin Dale Whitacre

Narrated by: William Savage

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his... Read more

Die Humboldts - Abridged

By: Dorothee Nolte

Narrated by: Dorothee Nolte & Paul Sonderegger

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wir sind uns gut, aber selten eng", sagte Wilhelm von Humboldt über sein Verhältnis zu Alexander. Zwei Jahre trennen die Brüder Humboldt, sie wachsen behütet, aber nicht glücklich im Tegeler Familienschloss auf, werden auf eine Karriere im preußischen Staatsdienst vorbereitet. Alexander wird Forschungsreisender, Wilhelm Staatsbeamter und... Read more

Москва и москвичи (радиопостановка) - Abridged

By: Владимир Гиляровский

Narrated by: С. Жирнов & Е. Новиков

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Москва и москвичи – радиопостановка по одноименной книге. В книге описаны нравы и жизнь Москвы в конце 19 начала 20 века. Читают - С. Жирнов, Е.Новиков. Read more

Our Hidden Lives - Abridged

By: Simon Garfield

Narrated by: Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perr...

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon... Read more

Fräulein Gold - Schatten und Licht, Band 1 (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hulda Gold - nah am Leben, nah am Tod 1922. Hulda Gold ist Hebamme, clever, unerschrocken und im Viertel äußerst beliebt. Das Schicksal der Frauen liegt ihr besonders am Herzen. Zumal sie bei ihrer Arbeit nicht nur neuem Leben begegnet, sondern auch dem Tod. Im berüchtigten Bülowbogen, einem der vielen Elendsviertel der Stadt, kümmert sich Hulda... Read more

The Age of Anxiety - Abridged

By: Haynes Johnson

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer-Prize winner Haynes Johnson boldly revisits the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era to examine parallels today in this new age of terror and threat with a mix of narrative history, political commentary, and contemporary reporting. Read more

Behind the Lines - Abridged

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Dion Graham, George Grizzard, Kate Nelligan, Ke...

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars.

Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of its kind: a dramatic, intimate, and revealing look at warfare as seen... Read more

Road to Baghdad - Abridged

By: Martin Stanton

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In 1990, U.S. Army Major Martin Stanton was a military advisor stationed in Saudi Arabia. Encouraged by the Army to broaden his cultural horizons, and assured by the U.S. embassy that Kuwait was perfectly safe, Stanton took off for a long weekend there. Roused by gunshots his first night in Kuwait City, Stanton looked out the window and... Read more

109 East Palace - Abridged

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.

In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more

Fräulein Gold. Scheunenkinder - Die Hebamme von Berlin, Band 2 (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlin, 1923. Hebamme Hulda Gold wird zu einer Geburt ins Scheunenviertel gerufen. Die ju?dische Familie lebt nach ihren ganz eigenen, strengen Regeln, aber Hulda gewinnt das Vertrauen der jungen Mutter. Und als das Neugeborene nach wenigen Tagen verschwindet, wird sie unvermittelt in die rätselhafte Suche verstrickt. Denn wie kann ein Kind in... Read more

Corporate Creativity - Abridged

By: Sam Stern & Alan G. Robinson

Narrated by: Sam Stern

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Most companies know that their creative performance falls far short of potential, but they don't know what to do about it. Corporate Creativity has the answers. Read more

Das Buch vom geglückten Leben - Abridged

By: Epiktet

Narrated by: Stephan Benson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Du willst Philosoph sein. Mach dich darauf gefasst, dass man dich auslacht." In seinem Handbüchlein weist Epiktet einen zeitlos modernen Weg, sich von jenen zweifelhaften Werten und Überzeugungen freizumachen, die den Menschen versklaven. Wer sich unter Epiktets Anleitung wahre innere Freiheit erwirbt, den wird nichts und niemand mehr... Read more

Philosophie des Glücks - Abridged

By: Epikur

Narrated by: Peter Jordan & Stephan Schad

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Niemand ist zu jung oder zu alt, um etwas für die Gesundheit seiner Seele zu tun." Der griechische Philosoph Epikur stellte das Glück des einzelnen ins Zentrum seiner Lehre. Er wies seinen Schülerinnen und Schülern den Weg zur höchsten Lust und zur Vermeidung des Schmerzes. Dem modernen Menschen erscheint Epikurs Philosophie nicht zuletzt... Read more

31 Days - Abridged

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: J. R. Horne

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within... 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

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged

By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Vintage Original

The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more

Lektionen der Stille - Abridged

By: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer

Narrated by: Maja Maranow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Wenn du jenseits von Liebe und Hass bist, ist alles so klar wie das helle Tageslicht." Der Zen-Weg, in China zwischen 500 und 1000 n. Chr. entwickelt, ist nicht nur einfach Meditation und Versenkung, sondern vor allem Praxis. Zen umfasst die ganze Existenz. Diese Auswahl aus der reichhaltigen Literatur bietet klassische Texte von bekannten... Read more

Wege zu sich selbst - Abridged

By: Marc Aurel

Narrated by: Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger & Stephan Schad

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Die Kunst des Lebens besteht mehr im Ringen als im Tanzen." Auf der Suche nach der Idee der Freiheit und im Bewusstsein der Vergänglichkeit alles Irdischen befragt Marc Aurel, der Philosoph auf dem römischen Kaiserthron, sein eigenes Ich. Seine Selbstgespräche sind eine zeitlos eindrucksvolle Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundfragen richtiger... Read more