History audiobooks

American Heritage's Great Minds of American History - Abridged

By: American Heritage

Narrated by: David McCullough & Stephen E. Ambrose

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a series of fascinating interviews, today's best and brightest historians weigh in on the crucial moments in American history.

American Heritage's Great Minds of American History takes you to critical moments in American history, imbuing the past with an immediacy that goes well beyond the scope of formal histories. Roger Mudd's highly... Read more

STILL DREAMING: ANOTHER YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB - Abridged

By: Alex Fynn & Martin Cloake

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a season in the life of one of the Premier League’s biggest clubs. But Tottenham Hotspur hold a unique position in that group, having won just two League Cups since the Premier League was formed and the modern football boom began.Authors Alex Fynn and Martin Cloake follow the team through the 2022/23 season, another in which... Read more

The Elephant to Hollywoo - Abridged

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really... Read more

Landser im Weltkrieg 5: Verstaubt sind die Gesichter – Mit der 2. Panzerdivision in Griechenland - Abridged

By: Hermann Weinhauer

Narrated by: Lukas Speitling

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fesselnde Landser-Geschichten in Romanheft-Länge Der vorliegende Band "Verstaubt sind die Gesichter" folgt dem Kradschützen Schubert sowie dem Panzerkommandanten Hesse während des deutschen Vormarsches in Griechenland. Über staubige Pisten rücken die schnellen Truppen der Wehrmacht tief ins Feindesland vor. Schon donnern britische... Read more

The Fourth Star - Abridged

By: Greg Jaffe & David Cloud

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next... Read more

The Queen Mother - Abridged

By: William Shawcross

Narrated by: William Shawcross

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and,... Read more

سينما دروم - Abridged

By: هاجر أحمد المحارفي

Narrated by: هبة بيشاني

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

من عشاق شخصيات ديزني و أميرات ديزني بالأخص، ومنذ أن كنت طفلة - ومازلت إلى هذه اللحظة - وأنا أتمنى أن أكون إحداهن، بأن يكون لي قصر وأمير وأصدقاء من الحيوانات، وحياة سعيدة مليئة بالأغاني السعيدة، ولكن خيالات الأفلام قد تكون واقعاً مراً لأحده. Read more

Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - Abridged

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Adrian Lester, Bernard Cribbins, Don Warrington...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Paterson Joseph stars as the Marquis de Carabas in this brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's spin-off short story, set in the magical world of Neverwhere.

Returning us to London Below, this enchanting tale continues the story of one of the most colourful characters from Neverwhere – the cool, charming, resourceful... Read more

Die Buddhas vom Dach der Welt - Abridged

By: Ole Nydahl

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Auf ihrer Hochzeitsreise 1968 nach Nepal begegneten Hannah und Ole Nydahl als einige der ersten Westler dem Diamantweg-Buddhismus. Schon 1969 wurden sie hier Schüler des ersten bewusst wiedergeborenen Lama Gyalwa Karmapa, dem "König der Yogis". Die Kraft der Kagyü oder "mündlich übertragenen" Meditationsschule des tibetischen Buddhismus sollte... Read more

فضائي الداخلي - Abridged

By: هلا حسين عجيمي

Narrated by: هبة بيشاني

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الكتاب الذي بين يديك ثمرة دراسة 4 سنوات في مجال تخصصي (التصميم الداخلي) و 4 سنوات أخرى بدأت برحلة الدخول والتعرف على عالم (اضطراب طيف التوحد) مُلخصة لك في كتاب واحد ليكون عونا ودليلا للتعرف على أهم الأسس والمعايير التي تساعدك في تصميم بيئة مريحة وفعالة لطفلك التوحدي وخاصة في المنزل Read more

All but My Life - Abridged

By: Gerda Weissman Klein

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

All but My Life tells the haunting story of Gerda Weissman Klein’s experience under the Nazi regime. Taken from her home in Bielitz, Poland, and sent to German labor camps, Gerda survived and was liberated by American troops. In her memoir, Klein takes audiences on an alarming journey from the comforts of life in Poland to the horrifying... 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

Champions Again: The Story of Liverpool’s 30-Year Wait for the Title - Abridged

By: Ian Carroll

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2020, Liverpool Football Club reclaimed its position as the number one football team in England. But it was a journey that had taken the world-famous club 30 years; a journey that was filled with drama, intrigue, and numerous false dawns.Written by a lifelong Liverpool fan, this is a dramatic story of highs and lows, and how the club overcame... Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 13. Jahrhundert - Abridged

By: Silke Wolfrum, Katharina Neuschaefer, Cornelia ...

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

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Das 13. Jahrhundert ist das Jahrhundert des Aufbruchs, der großen Gelehrten und der Entstehung großer Dichtungen, das Jahrhundert der Mutigen. Überall brodelt es. Rebellische Dichter lassen einen Narren zum König werden und das Nibelungenlied wird für viele Jahrhunderte das große deutsche Heldenpos. Unter den Musikinstrumenten wird die... Read more

John Adams - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Jan Maxwell

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour - Abridged

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand... Read more

Shadow Divers - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times Bestseller 

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than... Read more

Paul Newman - Abridged

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 17. Jahrhundert - Abridged

By: Silke Wolfrum, Sylvia Schreiber, Cornelia Ferst...

Narrated by: Udo Wachtveitl, Julia Fischer, Andreas Neumann,...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Uhu Bubo lernt im 17. Jahrhundert so manche neue Sitte kennen: Zunächst einmal in Italien. Dort sind alle verrückt nach Opern, von der feisten Fledermaus bis zum vornehmen Grafen. Und in so einem Opernhaus wird keinesfalls nur Musik gemacht, nein, in der Oper isst man und wenn einem die Musik nicht passt, dann darf man sogar mit Schuhen... Read more

Curveball - Abridged

By: Bob Drogin

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”—Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was... 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

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more

Undaunted Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... 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