History audiobooks

Titanic's Last Secrets - Abridged

By: Brad Matsen

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did?

To answer the question, Chatterton and Kohler assemble a team of experts... Read more

Primórdios da campanha - Abridged

By: Visconde de Taunay

Narrated by: Diego Muras

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crônica histórica no contexto da Guerra do Paraguai sobre a formação de um corpo militar destinado a marchar sobre o alto Paraguai. Detalhes sobre as distâncias percorridas, as imensidões da fronteira, as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno e até mesmo pela moral da tropa. Read more

Wasserfahrt von Regensburg nach Trapezunt - Abridged

By: Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer

Narrated by: Gert Westphal

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der gebürtige Südtiroler Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790–1861) gilt als bedeutender Orientalist. Der Kleinbauernsohn (geboren in Tschötsch bei Brixen) war ein für seine Zeit liberaler Denker, der in München und Frankfurt tätig war, und noch heute als Gelehrter bekannt ist. Sein maßgebliches Werk "Fragmente aus dem Orient", 1845 erstmals... Read more

Rumo à fronteira paraguaia - Abridged

By: Visconde de Taunay

Narrated by: Diego Muras

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crônica histórica no contexto da Guerra do Paraguai sobre o avanço do exército brasileiro ao território paraguaio com o apoio de um guia. Detalhes sobre as cidades, os escombros, as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno e até mesmo pela moral da tropa. Read more

The Majors - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and "inside the ropes", as... Read more

Baseball - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part Tenth Inning directed with Lynn Novick.
 
The authors of the acclaimed and bestselling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American phenomenon: baseball. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns’s moving... Read more

The Victors - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.

This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive... Read more

Truth - Abridged

By: Mary Mapes

Narrated by: Mary Mapes

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Mapes's Truth (previously published as Truth & Duty) was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.

A riveting play-by-play of a reporter getting and defending a story that recalls All the President's Men, Truth puts readers in the center of the "60 Minutes II" story on... Read more

Napoleon - Abridged

By: Elke Bader

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Er war einer der größten Feldherrn der Geschichte, der ganz Europa seinen politischen Willen aufzwang. Aus einer verarmten korsischen Adelsfamilie stammend, nahm Napoleon Bonaparte im nachrevolutionären, krisengeschüttelten Frankreich einen kometenhaften Aufstieg. Mit 24 Jahren war er bereits General, wurde wenig später Oberkommandierender der... Read more

The Blair Years - Abridged

By: Alastair Campbell

Narrated by: Alastair Campbell

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.

Here are the defining... Read more

The Big Oyster - Abridged

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.

For centuries New York was famous for its... Read more

What If...? Vol 3 - Abridged

By: Robert Cowley

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising,... Read more

Revolutionaries - Abridged

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

Narrated by: Shubhankar

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is an abridged edition of Sanjeev Sanyal's Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom, shortened and illustrated for younger readers.You may have read the history of India's freedom struggle from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to the British Empire is just as... Read more

Im fernen Osten - Abridged

By: Marie von Bunsen

Narrated by: Meike Graf

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im fernen Osten - Die Beschreibung einer Reise durch Japan aus dem Jahre 1911 - von Marie von Bunsen, gelesen von Meike Graf. In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts führten die Reisen der Deutschen bereits schon in alle Welt, selten jedoch bis nach Japan. Eine der wenigen Japanreisenden damals war eine adlige Dame aus Preußen:... Read more

Was wollen die denn hier - Abridged

By: Lucas Vogelsang & Joachim Król

Narrated by: Lucas Vogelsang & Joachim Król

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall machen sich der Reporter Lucas Vogelsang und der Schauspieler Joachim Król auf eine Reise durch ein ehemals geteiltes Land. Sie besuchen Menschen, deren Leben 1989 noch einmal neu begonnen haben. Im Osten und im Westen. So begegnen sie Biographien, die von Bundesrepublik und DDR erzählen, vom Fremdeln und von der... Read more

Before the Wind - Abridged

By: Charles Tyng

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seafaring literature, no fictional sailor's story can match this true, real-life adventure. Before the Wind is the memoir of early nineteenth-century sea captain Charles Tyng— from his childhood and love affair with the sea to his rise through the ranks to captain and ship owner in the tea and sugar trade. Before the Wind takes... Read more

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more

No Ordinary Time - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.

With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more

False Prophets - Abridged

By: Dale Jakes & Connie Jakes

Narrated by: Dale Jakes

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dale and Connie Jakes, working for the FBI, provide a firsthand account of life under the deepest cover inside the violent, armed strongholds of the Montana Freemen organization. In 1995, the Jakes lived in the Montana mountains, discovering a major center of American terrorism. They exposed vital information about how widespread,... Read more

Southern Storm - Abridged

By: Noah Andre Trudeau

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S.... Read more

Decision Points - Abridged

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

The Royal British Legion - Abridged

By: Matt Croucher & The Royal British Legion

Narrated by: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, S...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country’s leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependants. The RBL is behind the annual Poppy Appeal, the highest profile charity appeal in Britain. ... Read more

Stalingrad - Abridged

By: David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 18 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy. Read more

The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times - Abridged

By: Max Frankel

Narrated by: Max Frankel

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within... Read more