History audiobooks

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. Read more

Pillar of Fire - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.

In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more

No True Glory: Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq - Abridged

By: Bing West

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain

Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory... Read more

Reaching for Glory - Abridged

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reaching for Glory lets us eavesdrop on LBJ's private, often tortured thoughts during the most crucial year of his presidency -- when his dreams of being hailed as the equal of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were destroyed by the war in Vietnam.
As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in... Read more

A Perfect Union - Abridged

By: Catherine Allgor

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which... Read more

To Conquer the Air - Abridged

By: James Tobin

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in... 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

الجبتانا: أسفار التكوين المصرية - Abridged

By: علي علي الألفي" & "مانيتون السمنودي

Narrated by: محمد الخميس

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لايزال التاريخ المصرى القديم زاخرًا بالنصوص والأسرار التي تتجلى تباعًا لتؤكد فرادة المصريين، بعض هذه النصوص تم كشفها والبعض الآخر لايزال مصيره مجهولًا، وربما تعرض للمحو أو التعتيم عليه، لدحض حقيقة تاريخية أو عقائدية تؤكد سبق الحضارة المصرية. هذا ما يتناوله كتاب «الجبتانا.. أسفار التكوين المصرية» للمؤرخ المصري الشهير «مانيتون السمنودي»، الذي ولد... Read more

Absolutely American - Abridged

By: David Lipsky

Narrated by: David Lipsky

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review

As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more

الدحيحة - ديانا - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الرقص مع الأفاعي. في 31 أغسطس 1997 بعد نُص الليل، وفي نفق على بُعد أقل من ميل من برج إيفل في باريس، حادثة سيارة مريبة راحت ضحيتها الأميرة ديانا وصديقها دودي فايد والسواق هنري بول. بعد وفاتها المأساوية، العالم كله تساءل وقتها مين اللي قتل ديانا، وظهرت نظريات كتير بتقول إن فيه مؤامرة اتدبرت لاغتيالها هي والفايد. ديانا واحدة من أشهر النساء على... Read more

John Bunyan - Abridged

By: John Brown

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A traveling tinker, John Bunyan accepted long imprisonment rather than give up preaching the Gospel. He explained the life of the Spirit in language the common people could understand and in pictures that stuck in the mind. When he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, his fame spread rapidly, and within fifty years of his death, the book was reputed to... Read more

الدحيحة - تايسون فيوري - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

بطل العالم في مواجهة الاكتئاب! من أبوين أيرلنديين، اتولد تايسون فيوري في سنة 1988، لكنه اتولد قبل ميعاده بتلات شهور، وبوزن 450 جرام تقريبًا. كان أقرب للموت وقتها، لكن تشاء الأقدار إنه يعيش ويكون واحد من أعظم ملاكمي الوزن التقيل عبر العصور. في العشرينات من عمره، تايسون فيوري بقا بطل العالم في الوزن التقيل للملاكمة. اتحول من غجري بيكافح في حياته... Read more

Barão de Mauá E Eusébio de Queirós - biografias - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Renato Peres

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sisson tem um ponto de vista singular sobre os biografados – o de um contemporâneo deles! Esse frescor, por si só, justifica sua leitura nos dias de hoje dessas biografias. De "Barão de Mauá", destaca-se a vertiginosa ascensão como empresário, cujo exemplo atualíssimo é ter fundando o Banco do Brasil. De "Eusébio de Queirós", é de se notar seu... Read more

Obama's Wars - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2011 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the... Read more

The Confession - Abridged

By: James E. McGreevey

Narrated by: James E. McGreevey

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he declared ""My truth is that I am a gay American,"" and announced his resignation. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise, and redemption. From childhood, McGreevey lived a kind of idealized... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff - Abridged

By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew & Annette L. Drew

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for... Read more

Десять дней, которые потрясли мир - Abridged

By: Джон Рид

Narrated by: Иван Литвинов

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Джон Рид был знаменитым американским журналистом, который своими глазами наблюдал взятие Зимнего дворца, стал одним из основателей Коммунистической рабочей партии США и с почестями похоронен у стен московского Кремля рядом с Инессой Арманд. Выпускник Гарварда, отчаянный военный корреспондент, антимилитарист и социалист, Рид приехал в Петроград в... Read more

Peters Krieg - Tagebuch eines Panzerkommandanten - Abridged

By: Rudolf Petersen

Narrated by: Sascha Ulderup

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Peters Krieg ist die Geschichte eines Panzerkommandanten, der mit seinem Richtschützen Rudolf schon seit den Tagen des Russlandfeldzuges zusammen im Panzer sitzt. Eine enge Freundschaft verbindet die Beiden und sie werden zusammen mit Ihren Kameraden in die Hölle der Schlacht um die Normandie geworfen. Die schrecklichen Erlebnisse des Krieges... Read more

Character Is Destiny - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Character is Destiny, McCain tells the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit. He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity, and sacrifices for a cause greater than ... Read more

Die schreckliche Flucht - Abridged

By: Familie Steinhoff

Narrated by: Sascha Ulderup

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In diesem sehr detaillierten Erlebnisbericht beschreibt die Mutter von 5 Kindern, wie sie die Flucht aus Ostpreußen erlebte. Welche Menschen sie traf, welche auch halfen und wer nur an sein eigenes Leben dachte. Wie viele Tragödien sich, in den Wirren dieser Flucht ereigneten und wie viele Menschen starben, ist kaum zu glauben. Ein... Read more

حكاية اليوم العالمي للغة العربية - Abridged

By: زياد الدريس

Narrated by: محمد نصر الله

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

حكاية اليوم العالمي للغة العربية تاليف الدكتور زياد الدريس يستعرض الكتاب جذور فكرة احتفالية اليوم العالمي للغة العربية، و دوافع إطلاقها ، من هي الجهات و الاشخاص الذين كان لهم الفضل في اطلاق هذه الاحتفالية؟ و يجيب على مجموعة من الأسئلة ، منها هل واجهت الفكرة معارضة من أي نوع ، و كيف تم تقديم الدعم لهذه الاحتفالية لضمان استمراريتها لسنوات ، هي... Read more

Weltmacht Rom - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1.000 Jahre herrschten die Römer und ihr Einfluss ist auch bei uns bis heute noch gegenwärtig. Römische Philosophie, römisches Recht, römische Baukunst überlebten das Mittelalter und prägten die Zivilisation Mitteleuropas. Die Gründung; die Kämpfe mit den Etruskern, die Etablierung der Republik, die Kriege gegen Karthago, "Hannibal ante... Read more

الدحيحة - رولينج - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

بعد كل هذا الوقت؟ إلى الأبد. كانت فقيرة وتكاد تكون بلا مأوى وعايشة على إعانات الدولة، وكتبت كتابتها من مقهى بيسمح لها تقعد طالما إنها بتطلب مشروب. كان عندها طفل صغير ومطلقة ووالدتها مُشخصة بمرض التصلب العصبي المتعدد. وفوق كل دا، كانت بتعاني من الاكتئاب وبتفكر في الانتحار. لكن كل دا مخلهاش تبطل تحلم تحقق طموحها في إنها تبقى كاتبة. في سنة 1990،... Read more

Sinatra - Abridged

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more