History audiobooks
First Man - Abridged
By: James R. Hansen
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.
When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty... Read more
The Concise King - Abridged
By: Clayborne Carson
Narrated by: Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Dr....
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For the first time, an edition of Martin Luther King's most important speeches and selected sermons are assembled and available on CD as a value-priced edition. Hachette Audio believes that the timeless message of King, in his own words and voice, are essential listening for any American and for any world citizen interested in American history,... Read more
View audiobookThe Conquerors - Abridged
By: Michael R. Beschloss
Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.
With monumental fairness and balance, The Conquerors shows how Roosevelt privately refused... Read more
Blood Sport - Abridged
By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart takes readers behind the scenes in the Clinton White House as it reels in the wake of the Whitewater scandal, Vincent Foster’s suicide, and Paula Jones’ allegations of sexual misconduct.
In July 1993, White House official Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: “in Washington...ruining people is considered... Read more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - Abridged
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more
View audiobookNo One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story - Abridged
By: Amy Waters Yarsinske
Narrated by: Gary Telles
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead.On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in... Read more
View audiobookD-Day - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of... Read more
Phoenix, Policing the Shadows. - Abridged
By: Dr. Susan Phoenix & Jack Holland
Narrated by: Niven Phoenix, Dr. Susan Phoenix, Dr. Críostóir...
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Phoenix is the true story of intrigue, danger and family loyalty centred within the Northern Ireland Troubles. This is the voice of Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix and his dedicated journey from paratrooper to police officer. IRA assassinations, covert police and SAS operations, with Booby trap bombers and snipers making the rules of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Men - Abridged
By: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.
When the Ross Sea ship, the... Read more
The Gamble - Abridged
By: Thomas E. Ricks
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment
Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late... Read more
World War II: Europe - Abridged
By: The History Channel
Narrated by: Fritz Weaver, Paul Sparer & Jack Perkins
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Relive history as the men who experienced the most intense battles of World WarII share their stories. The WWII Battle Classsic -- produced as major TV specials by Lou Reda Productions -- have been brilliantly adapted for this thirilling audio presentation. This is essential history, told by the eyewitness heroes who were there. World WarII:... Read more
View audiobookDrogenrausch und Deduktion - Abridged
By: Traian Suttles
Narrated by: Gemma
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dieses Hörbuch wurde von einer künstlichen Stimme eingelesen. SHERLOCK HOLMES – eine der wenigen Figuren der neueren Literaturgeschichte, denen ein mythischer Status zukommt, und zugleich eine der rätselhaftesten. Warum konsumiert Holmes, entgegen des ärztlichen Rates seines Vertrauten Dr. Watson, regelmäßig Kokain- und Morphium? Was hat es... Read more
View audiobookDie Rumplhanni - Abridged
By: Lena Christ
Narrated by: Eva Sixt & Rüdiger Hacker
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Johanna Rumpl, die "Rumplhanni", verdingt sich als Magd beim Hauserbauern zu Öd bei Aibling. Selbst Bäuerin zu werden, ist ihr Traum ‒ was für ein uneheliches Kind niederer Herkunft nicht einfach ist: "A Barasolflickersbankert, a windiger Deanstbot, a oaschichtiger!" nennt sie der Staudenschneidergirgl. Der einzige Weg zum eigenen Hof scheint... Read more
View audiobookUp Till Now - Abridged
By: William Shatner & David Fisher
Narrated by: William Shatner
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more
View audiobookEmpire of the Romans - Abridged
By: John Matthews
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 22 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire—from its establishment to decline and beyond
Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar's... Read more
Band of Brothers - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.
They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942,... Read more
Germs - Abridged
By: Judith Miller
Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of biological and chemical weapons.
Today Americans have begun... Read more
The Great Republic - Abridged
By: Winston S. Churchill
Narrated by: Winston S. Churchill
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of the ... Read more
View audiobookSea of Glory - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.
A New York Times Notable Book
America's first frontier was not the... Read more
Memoiren des Hector Berlioz - Abridged
By: Hector Berlioz
Narrated by: Dirk Glodde
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Zu sagen, kein Musiker sei weniger bekannt als Berlioz, mag paradox klingen. Jedermann glaubt ihn zu kennen. Lärmender Ruhm umgibt seine Person und sein Werk. Das musikalische Europa hat seinen hundertsten Geburtstag gefeiert. Deutschland macht Frankreich den Ruhm streitig, sein Genie geformt und gefördert zu haben. Rußland bereitete ihm einen... Read more
View audiobookQueen of Scots - Abridged
By: John Guy
Narrated by: John Guy
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources.Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of history’s greatest women.John Guy draws on sources -- many... Read more
View audiobookComrades - 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
12 Strong - Abridged
By: Doug Stanton
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!
“A thrilling action ride of a book” (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.
In the weeks following the... Read more
Electric Universe - Abridged
By: David Bodanis
Narrated by: Adam Levy
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that... Read more