History audiobooks

Sixty Days in Combat - Abridged

By: Dean Joy

Narrated by: Don Hastings

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”

He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.

For two months in... Read more

102 Minutes - Abridged

By: Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn

Narrated by: Ron McClarty

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted.At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become... Read more

The Last Voyage of Columbus - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being... Read more

Historia chiquita - Abridged

By: Sari

Narrated by: Sari & Valeria Estrada

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

TODO PAÍS TIENE UNA Historia CHIQUITA La historia de México está llena de anécdotas sabrosas, tiernas y divertidas. Sari, la maestra más popular de TikTok, desmenuza con humor los secretos mejor guardados desde la Conquista hasta los 80. Un oso baila en las calles de la colonia Guerrero. Una elefanta se escapa del zoológico de Chapultepec y... Read more

Broke - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe

Narrated by: Brian Sack & Glenn Beck

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, showcases his distinctive humor in taking on the political landscape in his fight to fix America—before it’s too late.

As the most important presidential election in our history looms, ask yourself: Are America’s finances in better shape than they were four years ago? Or are we... Read more

Zapata - Abridged

By: Felipe Ávila

Narrated by: Carlos Garza

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zapata, el símbolo del agrarismo, de la lucha por la tierra, la justicia y la libertad, es un personaje universal. La historia de Emiliano Zapata es la historia de la lucha ancestral de los pueblos indígenas y campesinos por defender sus tierras, sus bosques, sus aguas y sus recursos naturales de la voracidad de hacendados y autoridades de... Read more

Una vida, muchas vidas - Abridged

By: Gustavo Petro

Narrated by: Julio Caycedo

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

 La vida de Gustavo Petro no es tan conocida a pesar de que su participación en la vida pública del país ha sido destacada como representante a la Cámara, Senador de la República y Alcalde de Bogotá. Poco se sabe de sus primeros años, cuando sus padres se conocieron en la Bogotá de finales de los años cincuenta y la parábola de una vida que... Read more

Cuando el tiempo se detuvo - Abridged

By: Ariana Neumann

Narrated by: Sonia Rocha

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una hija desentraña las memorias de su padre judio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y descubre a la familia que nunca supo que tenía.  Las únicas pistas que tuvo Ariana Neumann de niña sobre la vida de su padre —el empresario y mecenas Hans Neumann— antes de llegar a la Venezuela que lo adoptó eran una foto vieja de sus abuelos paternos, un... Read more

Einstein - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

Haunted Houses of England and Wales - Abridged

By: Elliott O'Donnell

Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prepare for a scare! This collection of bone-chilling ghost stories from England and Wales is certain to send shivers down your spine. Settle in for more than four hours of haunted tales from the early twentieth century—that’s more than four hours of audio! Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Zwölf Töne, blaue Noten und was sonst noch war (1) - Abridged

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

Narrated by: Johannes Hitzelberger, Burchard Dabinnus, Udo W...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Uhu ist in Ungarn! Dort hilft er Béla Bartók beim Volkslieder Sammeln in der Puszta. Ob Arnold Schönberg und Gustav Mahler sich bei ihren gemeinsamen Kaffeehaus-Besuchen ebenfalls über Volkslieder unterhalten haben? Etwa zeitgleich entwickelt sich in Amerika eine ganz neue Musikform: Uhu hat den weiten Weg über den Ozean angetreten und spürt in... Read more

Lewis & Clark - Abridged

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns & Adam Arkin

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.

In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the newly acquired Louisiana... Read more

Fixing Hell - Abridged

By: Colonel Larry C. James

Narrated by: Eric Kramer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again.

In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts, and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story... Read more

The Gift of Valor - Abridged

By: Michael M. Phillips

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: Yes

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more

Uhus Reise durch die Musikgeschichte. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Feuervogel, Filmmusik und was sonst noch war (2) - Abridged

By: Silke Wolfrum, Katharina Neuschaefer, Sylvia Sc...

Narrated by: Udo Wachtveitl, Burchard Dabinnus, Sebastian Sc...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts besucht unser Uhu Olivier Messiaen in Frankreich und erlebt in Russland ein schwindliges Orchester, das verzweifelt versucht, Strawinskys "Petruschka" zu spielen. Danach fliegt er über den großen Teich, trifft Leonard Bernstein, hört John Cages unerhörte Klänge und springt für Arturo Toscanini als... Read more

Master of the Senate - Abridged

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... 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

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

Endgame - Abridged

By: Scott Ritter

Narrated by: Scott Ritter

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ?
Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in... Read more

Surrounded by Idiots - Abridged

By: Mike Gallagher

Narrated by: Mike Gallagher

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The controvserial radio host speaks out on liberalism, grassroots politics, and the control of America in a polemic that is sure raise liberal hacklesIn the book his fans have long been clamoring for, conservative talk show host and commander in chief of “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike Gallagher chronicles the daily war between liberals and... Read more

Bound for Canaan - Abridged

By: Fergus Bordewich

Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Abridged

By: Roy Jenkins

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterly, posthumous work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone

A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention... Read more