History audiobooks

Collapse - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Christopher Murney

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization.

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all... Read more

Grass Crown - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: F. Murray Abraham

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the captivating bestseller
THE FIRST MAN IN ROME...
the timeless saga of power, passion
and conflict of Ancient Rome continues...

The magnificent glory of Republican Rome is threatened when a struggle for power erupts among the men who shaped its hard-won peace. At its center are two extraordinary leaders: Gaius Marius,... Read more

American Soldier - Abridged

By: Tommy R. Franks

Narrated by: Tommy R. Franks

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To America, he was a hero.To his troops, he was a soldier.Now hear his story.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism.In this... Read more

Outposts - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the... Read more

The Last Hero - Abridged

By: Howard Bryant

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his... Read more

Our Sacred Honor - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort.
In Our Sacred Honor, Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and... Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 12. Jahrhundert - Abridged

By: Barbara Weiß, Katharina Neuschaefer, Markus Van...

Narrated by: Udo Wachtveitl, Burchard Dabinnus, Thomas Albus...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Im 12. Jahrhundert schlüpft Uhu Bubo in eine stattliche Ritterrüstung. Ehrlich gesagt gibt er damit ziemlich an, denn das Kämpfen überlässt er den anderen und zum Reiten sind die Beine zu kurz. Er trifft auf eine zauberhafte Uhudame und versucht sich bei einem Wettstreit von Minnesängern. Spannend findet er auch die Geschichte von Prinz... Read more

Politics Lost - Abridged

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: Joe Klein

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be... 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

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 16. Jahrhundert - Abridged

By: Barbara Weiß, Sylvia Schreiber, Cornelia Ferstl...

Narrated by: Udo Wachtveitl, Burchard Dabinnus, Peter Veit, ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Wenn ein vorlauter Uhu auf einen schweigsamen Kirchenmusiker trifft, ja heiliger Bimbam, das gibt Ärger: Im 16. Jahrhundert sucht Uhu Bubo während eines Gewitters Unterschlupf bei Orlando di Lasso. Klitschnass zerfetzt er dabei einige Notenblätter mit einer Motette darauf, um sich ein trockenes Nest zu bauen. Doch der Komponist Orlando di Lasso... Read more

From Dixie To Canada: Romances and Realities of The Underground Railroad - Abridged

By: H. U. Johnson

Narrated by: Cole Bolchoz

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The years intervening since the abolition of American slavery leave a majority of our people ignorant of its workings, and of matters connected with it, except as they are gleaned from the pages of history, or from the lips of those now grown old.
It is not the purpose of this little volume to discuss the history of the “peculiar institution” in... Read more

The Kissinger Transcripts - Abridged

By: William Burr & Richard Gilliland

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in U.S. history— serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen transcripts of Kissinger's conversations, including top-secret talks with Beijing and Moscow, provide an unvarnished record of his... Read more

My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters - Abridged

By: Chris Barker & Bessie Moore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Slavin & Louise Brealey

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.

‘Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.’

A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a... Read more

The Day of Battle - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Rick Atkinson

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.

In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two... Read more

The One Armed Whiskey Man of Jackass Canyon - Abridged

By: Thomas C Reinstein

Narrated by: Thomas C Reinstein

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The One Armed Whiskey Man of Jackass Canyon daylights a newly excavated vein in the Golden State of mind. It follows the unbelievably true life and times of accidental California pioneer Thomas D Carneal III. His prominent Northern Kentucky clan carved an ironic notch into the whiskey rebellion of 1790's and beyond. Out of the blue, tragedy... 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

Über alle Grenzen - Abridged

By: Ole Nydahl

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jahre über Jahre unterwegs - die Risiken und Freuden, den tibetischen Buddhismus in den Westen zu bringen: »Über alle Grenzen« setzt da an, wo das Buch »Buddhas vom Dach der Welt« aufhört. Humorvoll beschreibt Lama Ole Nydahl die inspirierenden und oft spaßvollen Begegnungen mit seinen Lehrern, diesmal vorwiegend im westlichen Teil unserer Welt.... Read more

Professor and The Madman - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book  The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the... Read more

War Letters - Abridged

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Joan Allen & Tom Brokaw

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection—including never-before-published letters that... Read more

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition - Abridged

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Kenneth C. Davis, Zach McLarty & ...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Fun, engrossing, and significant. . . . History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Here, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its debut as a New York Times bestseller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook that changed the way we look at... Read more

The Great Transformation - Abridged

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.

In one astonishing, short period – the... Read more

Bush at War - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war.
Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council - -- and firsthand... Read more

Iron Rose - Abridged

By: Cindy Adams & Susan Crimp

Narrated by: Cindy Adams

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Iron Rose takes an intimate look at the incredible life of Rose Kennedy—head of the Kennedy dynasty and one of the 20th century's most influential women—and her nine famous children. A riveting account of the power behind America's political throne for several decades, Iron Rose reveals the secrets behind the triumphs and tragedies of the... Read more

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... Read more