History audiobooks

ملخص كتاب كليوباترا - Abridged

By: ستايسي شيف

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

تأتي أهمية هذا الكتاب من اختياره لمرحلة من التاريخ الروسي الحديث، منذ عام ألفين، وهو العام الذي تولى فيه فلاديمير Vladimir Putin بوتين رئاسة روسيا، وحتى عام ألفين وخمسة عشر. مرحلة" غاب فيها تنوع الوجوه، وأصبح الممثل الوحيد لروسيا هو رئيسها، وأصبح رجال السياسة من حوله مجرد أشباح لا صوت لهم، ولا أهميّة. Read more

Blood Done Sign My Name - Abridged

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
 
*Chicago Tribune

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more

Origins and Creation Mythology of the Far East - Abridged

By: NORAH ROMNEY

Narrated by: Bill Shanks

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beliefs about the origin of the Earth and the men, animals, plants, and various topographical features seem to survive with greater persistence than any other trait of primitive culture. These beliefs lie at the base of nearly all religions, and the myths in which the beliefs are preserved are the foundation of literature. Therefore, the... Read more

ملخص كتاب كل جيش الكرملين - Abridged

By: ميخائيل زيغار

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يعتقد كثيرون أن العبقرية هي السبب الأساسي وراء الأعمال الإبداعية العظيمة، إلا أنّ تلك ما هي إلا حقيقةٌ منقوصةٌ. العبقرية في حدّ ذاتها لا تضمن تحقيق النجاح. وكم من أشخاصٍ يتمتعون بمعدلات ذكاءٍ مرتفعة أو فوق متوسطة فشلوا في الوصول لإنجازات وصل إليها من هم دونهم في معدلات الذكاء. الحقيقة أنّ تحقيق النجاح الحقيقي في المجالات الإبداعية كما في أي... Read more

One Soldier's Story - Abridged

By: Bob Dole

Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more

Prayer in America - Abridged

By: James P. Moore, Jr.

Narrated by: James P. Moore, Jr. & Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A stirring chronicle of the spiritual life of a nation, Prayer in America shows how the faith of Americans—from the founding fathers to corporate tycoons, from composers to social reformers, from generals to slaves—was an essential ingredient in the formation of American culture, character, commerce, and creed.

Prayer in America brings together... Read more

Schnick, Schnack, Schnuck (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Christoph Schulte-Richtering

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Herrlich schlau und wunderbar komisch." Ralf Schmitz Charmant, witzig und kenntnisreich erzählt Christoph Schulte-Richtering die wichtigsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte nach - von Nero bis Fidel Castro, von den Kreuzzügen bis zum Mauerfall, von Karl V. bis zu dessen Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Urgroßschwipponkel. Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

An Army at Dawn - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Rick Atkinson

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. An Army at Dawn begins on the eve of Operation TORCH, the... Read more

All Brave Sailors - Abridged

By: J. Revell Carr

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells. The victim was a stalwart English tramp steamer, Anglo Saxon, part of the lifeline that was keeping besieged England in supplies. The attacker appeared to be a merchant ship from a neutral... Read more

الدحيحة - محمد علي كلاي - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: أحمد الغندور

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يطفو كالفراشة ويلدغ كالنحلة! قصة أشهر ملاكم في التاريخ، فاز ببطولة العالم في الوزن التقيل وعمره اتنين وعشرين سنة، وأول تصريح ليه بعد الفوز كان قنبلة مدوية في الأوساط العالمية، أعلن اعتناقه الإسلام وانضمامه لمنظمة "أمة الإسلام" تحت اسم محمد علي كلاي! حول الملاكمة من رياضة أقرب لمصارعة التيران لفن معتمد على المهارة والذكاء وسرعة رد الفعل قبل... Read more

Raising the Hunley - Abridged

By: Schuyler Kropf & Brian Hicks

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two prize-winning journalists, Brian Hicks and Schulyer Kropf, have chronicled this fascinating story of military daring, momentary victory, sudden death, buried secrets, persistence, and ultimate payoff. Read more

The Majesty of the Law - Abridged

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more

Power Failure - Abridged

By: Mimi Swartz & Sherron Watkins

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.”
Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that... Read more

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Olympia Dukakis

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated;... Read more

A Presença do Invisível - Abridged

By: Allan Freire Nascimento

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Com o fim da Guerra Fria foi vista uma crise global das esquerdas e consequente aumento no campo neoliberal pelo mundo. Tal conjuntura teve reflexos na política brasileira do pós-ditadura militar, o que lançou a reflexão na qual se baseia esta obra: onde estariam marcadores ideológicos do neoliberalismo em falas presidenciais na recente... Read more

José Guilherme Merquior - Abridged

By: Sonia Carvalho

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Desde o início do período libertário do "amanhecer da Era de Aquarius", interagindo em um ambiente fortemente polarizado, entre as décadas de 1960 a 1990 do século XX, José Guilherme Merquior pautou o debate cultural no Brasil. O jovem, que se tornou adulto em plena Guerra Fria, em seus primeiros textos já impunha sua voz. Seu olhar penetrava na... Read more

A sociedade do engenho: Textos selecionados de Cultura e Opulência no Brasil - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Tiago Torres

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste texto, os textos selecionados de "Cultura e Opulência no Brasil", do cronista Antonil, apresentam o entorno do engenho, no que diz respeito às pessoas que constituíam sua sociedade. Citam-se, entre outras, os feitores, o mestre do açúcar, o purgador do açúcar, o caixeiro, os escravos e os familiares. Read more

The Sword and the Shield - Abridged

By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Sword and the Shield is a compelling—and historically significant—narrative destined to cast new light on the Soviet era. Read more

Pelas minas do ouro: Trechos selecionados de Cultura e Opulência do Brasil - Abridged

By: André João Antonil

Narrated by: Mauro Schames

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ler a obra de Antonil tem muito de ler um jornal ou guia – mas as notícias e os cenários são do início do século XVIII. Neste excerto, destacam-se as minas de ouro e todo seu entorno: a qualidade do metal, as gentes, a corrupção e a política do quinto. Pitoresco demais, o texto fala da mineração em Curitiba e no Pico do Jaraguá, de uma pepita do... Read more

Into Africa - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... 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

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

What If...? Vol 2 - Abridged

By: Robert Cowley

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There is no surer way to feel the danger or the good fortune of our collective past than to contemplate those moments when the world's future hung in the balance. Our brightest historians speculate on some of these intriguing crossroads and the ways in which our lives might have been changed for the better -- or the worse.

These unabridged essays... Read more