History audiobooks

Máximas y reflexiones de un renacentista sagaz - Abridged

By: Francesco Guicciardini & Manuel Manzano (Transl...

Narrated by: Eduardo Robles

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rescatamos los pensamientos que Francesco Guicciardini, el gran padre de la historiografía moderna, escribió bajo el título de Ricordi. Estas notas aforísticas, que fue reuniendo en distintos momentos de su vida y en diversos períodos de su actividad como diplomático, permanecieron inéditas hasta 1857. Vecino de Maquiavelo, catorce años mayor... Read more

Freie Spitzen - Politische Witze und Erinnerungen aus den Jahren des Ostblocks (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Bernd-Lutz Lange

Narrated by: Bernd-Lutz Lange

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Streifzug durch die vielfältige Landschaft des politischen Witzes im gesamten Ostblock vom Kriegsende bis zum Mauerfall Bernd-Lutz Lange verwebt in seinen Texten die politischen Witze dieser Jahre mit der Beschreibung der herrschenden Zustände in jenen Ländern, mit anekdotischen Streiflichtern und seinen persönlichen Reiseerlebnissen. "Jeder... Read more

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

Ava's Man - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.

This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible... Read more

A história de Jesus para quem tem pressa - Abridged

By: Anthony Le Donne

Narrated by: Alex Ferreira

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nestas páginas, você conhecerá as muitas faces de Jesus. Conhecerá o franzino trabalhador (diarista) de cabelos curtos, sem barba e sem alguns dentes. Conhecerá o simbólico cordeiro sacrificial da imaginação de João. Conhecerá o homem-deus das controvérsias do cristianismo primitivo. Conhecerá o chefe guerreiro da poesia viking. Conhecerá a... Read more

A história da filosofia para quem tem pressa - Abridged

By: Lesley Levene

Narrated by: Luiz Nicolau

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Se uma árvore cair na floresta quando não houver ninguém por perto, fará algum ruído? E se eu fizer um transplante facial, continuarei sendo eu mesmo? Será que um robô pode ser humano? Estas e outras perguntas fazem parte da lista de especulações filosóficas que acompanham o homem ao longo de 2.500 anos e que estão presentes em A... Read more

Treason - Abridged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”

In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more

Platoon Leader - Abridged

By: James R. McDonough

Narrated by: Joel Rooks

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'

"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more

Pete Hamill on Eddie Stanky - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's a cold spring day in 1944. A young Pete Hamill is with his father watching the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Boston Braves. The wartime teams are just dismal - many major league players are serving their country and the teams have been clogged with has-beens and guys that are 4-F. But Pete's father tells him to "watch this little guy." His name... Read more

Un planeta de virus - Abridged

By: Carl Zimmer

Narrated by: Luis García Márquez

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Casi todo lo que usted siempre había querido saber, y un montón de cosas de las que seguramente preferiría no haberse enterado, sobre esos virus que tanto sufrimiento han causado a la humanidad." —Forbes "Carl Zimmer consigue, en apenas cien páginas, lo que a otros autores les cuesta hacer en quinientas: dar una nueva forma a nuestra... Read more

13 Cent Killers - Abridged

By: John Culbertson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”

In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more

The Cruelest Miles - Abridged

By: Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury

Narrated by: Margot Dionne

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The... Read more

Drenajes - Abridged

By: Diego Rodríguez Landeros

Narrated by: Carlos Canales

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Todo parte en un remolino, un espiral de agua que traga lagos, ríos, gente, el flujo completo de un país que desacomoda y que termina desapareciendo por el resumidero. Con una escritura líquida e inclasificable, mitad crónica, mitad ensayo, Diego Rodríguez Landeros convoca la memoria del agua resucitando las ausencias, enfocando la marca de los... Read more

Empire of Blue Water - Abridged

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... 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

An American Life - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t miss one of our greatest presidents’ bestselling autobiographies in his own words. Ronald Reagan’s story is a work of major historical importance, a narrative that The Washington Times calls “one of our classic American success stories.”

Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in... Read more

The Greatest Generation Speaks - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
 
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more

All the Way to Berlin - Abridged

By: James Megellas

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.

In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army... Read more

The Darkest Jungle - Abridged

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers... Read more

Boom! - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line... Read more

Plan of Attack - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the... Read more

The Blind Side - Abridged

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn... Read more

Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more

Biografía del poder - Abridged

By: Enrique Krauze

Narrated by: Marco Lubián

Length: 20 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Biografía del poder, centrada en la historia mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX, constituye el segundo tomo de una trilogía que empezó con Siglo de caudillos (Andanzas 207), que ganó en 1993 el VI Premio Comillas y que culminará con un tercer volumen dedicado a la historia más reciente del poder en México, desde 1940 hasta nuestros días.... Read more