History audiobooks

Hard Choices - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant & Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2016 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).

In the... Read more

America Back on Track - Abridged

By: Edward M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Edward M. Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation.

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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

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova - Abridged

By: Ian Kelly

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age.

In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends and his lovers (male and female) in order to bring fresh insights to the man’s life and world. The sights and smells... Read more

Lady Di - Abridged

By: Curva Ediciones Creativas

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Diana Frances Spencer se convirtió en la princesa Diana al esposarse con el príncipe Carlos de Gales.Conocida internacionalmente como Lady Di. Durante su matrimonio con el príncipe Carlos de Gales, heredero de la Corona Británica, tuvo dos hijos, los príncipes Guillermo y Enrique. Su polémica y fatídica muerte, acaecida el 31 de agosto de 1997... Read more

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1 - Abridged

By: Lise Pearlman

Narrated by: Lise Pearlman

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

 In the depths of the Depression, millions worldwide followed every twist and turn of the Lindbergh baby kidnap/murder. Yet what was reported was largely fake news. Nearly a century after undocumented immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the dastardly crime, questions still linger. If the wrong man was convicted, who did it? When?... Read more

Death of a Dissident - Abridged

By: Alex Goldfarb & Marina Litvinenko

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled... Read more

Jane Boleyn - Abridged

By: Julia Fox

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and... Read more

Sigmund Freud: Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse – Gesamtbox - Abridged

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen "Einführung in die Psychoanalyse" - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. In dieser Gesamtbox sind alle drei Zyklen enthalten: 1. Die Fehlleistungen (Vorlesungen 1 - 4), 2. Der Traum (Vorlesungen 5 - 15), Allgemeine Neurosenlehre (Vorlesungen 16 - 28). Read more

Néstor, Un líder Nacional y Popular - Abridged

By: Curva Ediciones Creativas

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El 25 de mayo de 2003 Néstor Kirchner asumía como presidente de la Nación Argentina. Desde el primer momento encaró con decisión la compleja situación del país e impuso un ritmo vertiginoso a las medidas que fueron cambiando el rumbo de la Argentina: la revisión de las políticas económicas neoliberales, los derechos sociales, el fortalecimiento... Read more

The World in Six Songs - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)
 
Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets... Read more

The Bully Pulpit - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in... Read more

General Ike - Abridged

By: John Eisenhower

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.

General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more

The Greater Journey - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.

Not all pioneers went west.

In The Greater Journey, David McCullough... Read more

Lettere dal Fronte: Il fronte italiano - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: William Angiuli, Librinpillole, Omar Maestroni ...

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nel tumulto dei primi anni del XX secolo, l'Europa si ritrovò sospesa in una spirale di tensioni e alleanze che presto sfociò nella Prima Guerra Mondiale. Nel maggio del 1915, l'Italia scelse di rompere i vincoli dell'alleanza con l'Austria-Ungheria e, giustificata da aspirazioni nazionali e territoriali, entrò in guerra a fianco delle Potenze... Read more

Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - Abridged

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Adrian Lester, Bernard Cribbins, Don Warrington...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Paterson Joseph stars as the Marquis de Carabas in this brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's spin-off short story, set in the magical world of Neverwhere.

Returning us to London Below, this enchanting tale continues the story of one of the most colourful characters from Neverwhere – the cool, charming, resourceful... Read more

Stalingrado - Abridged

By: Camilla Allegrucci

Narrated by: Riccardo Burbi

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nel 1942, le truppe di Hitler raggiunsero le rive del Volga, ma si trovarono di fronte una resistenza imprevista nella città di Stalingrado. Iniziò così una lunga e violenta battaglia tra i soldati tedeschi e quelli russi, combattuta tra le rovine della città. Dopo molti mesi di scontri, alla fine furono i russi a vincere, cambiando il corso... Read more

Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, a full cast, Nathan Dana Ald...

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant... Read more

Il ghetto di Varsavia - Abridged

By: Camilla Allegrucci

Narrated by: Riccardo Burbi

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Il ghetto di Varsavia fu il più grande ghetto creato dai nazisti nell'Europa occupata. Quasi mezzo milione di persone visse dietro le sue mura, prima di venir stritolata negli ingranaggi della soluzione finale. Ma la storia del ghetto di Varsavia non è solo una storia di disperazione. È anche la storia di come gli uomini sappiano trovare, anche... Read more

In the Beginning, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Kevin Herren

Narrated by: a full cast, Joe Estevez, Daniel Roebuck, Nancy...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the Beginning ­is an audio drama series featuring stories from the Holy Bible. Performed in the style of the old time radio plays from yesteryear, each fully dramatized story is professionally performed by some of Hollywood’s best voice talent, including Joe Estevez, Daniel Roebuck, Nancy Stafford, Michael Sorich, Kyle Hebert, Kimberly Woods,... Read more

An Album of Memories - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

When Genius Failed - Abridged

By: Roger Lowenstein

Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then,... Read more

Tom Cruise - Abridged

By: Andrew Morton

Narrated by: John Hinch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2006 Forbes magazine ranked Tom Cruise as the most powerful celebrity in the world. With three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Award nominations, and 27 films with an average box office gross of nearly $100 million, People Magazine's choice for the "Sexest Man Alive" in 1990 is unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of our time.

He... Read more

Von Tod und Wiedergeburt - 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe - Abridged

By: Ole Nydahl

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neueste Forschungen zu den sogenannten Nahtoderfahrungen machen ein Weiterleben des Bewusstseins nach dem Tod immer wahrscheinlicher. Auch für den Buddhismus ist der Tod ein Tor in eine neue Daseinsform. Lama Ole Nydahl beschreibt die vielen subtilen Erfahrungen im Verlauf des Sterbens und erläutert den Zustand zwischen Tod und Wiedergeburt.... Read more