History audiobooks

HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH CRYPTOCURRENCIES - Abridged

By: SPENCER ALBERT

Narrated by: SPENCER ALBERT

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

IN THIS AUDI BOOK YOU WILL FIND IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON MINING, ARBITRAGE AND CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCY TO KNOW ABOUT BUSINESSES. DON'T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY AND BUY IT RIGHT NOW. Read more

My Year in Iraq - Abridged

By: L. Paul Bremer

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Baghdad was Burning"

With these words, Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer begins his gripping memoir of fourteen danger-filled months as America's proconsul in Iraq. My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. In vivid, dramatic detail, Bremer reveals the... Read more

Zeit - Vormoderne & Moderne - Abridged

By: Karlheinz A. Geißler

Narrated by: Karlheinz A. Geißler

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

WAS IST ZEIT? Es gibt unterschiedliche Zeitverständnisse. Mit den jeweils herrschenden Zeitvorstellungen wird in der Gesellschaft Ordnung gemacht und auch die Individuen strukturieren mit ihrem Zeitverständnis ihr Leben und dessen Verlauf. DER UMGANG MIT DER ZEIT IN VERSCHIEDENEN EPOCHEN In der Vormodernde fand man die Zeit bei Gott, bzw.... Read more

The Road Ahead - Abridged

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Rick Adamson & Bill Gates

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. Read more

There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere - Abridged

By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Kara Swisher

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed AOL.COM, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation... Read more

Hörportrait: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Abridged

By: Sven Görtz

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mozart war unbestritten eines der größten musikalischen Genies aller Zeiten. Und obwohl er schon als junger Knabe Könige durch sein Klavierspiel hinzureißen verstand, war er doch während seines gesamten, kurzen Lebens ständig in Sorge um sein finanzielles sowie künstlerisches Auskommen. Dieses Hörporträt beleuchtet in 15 Kapiteln Mozarts... Read more

Game of Shadows - Abridged

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Arnie Mazer

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more

Hörportrait: Rainer Maria Rilke - Abridged

By: Sven Görtz

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn das eigene Leben Themen, Motive und Bilder für das schriftstellerische Werk vorgibt, dann kommt man an der Biographie von Rainer Maria Rilke, Lieblingslyriker der Deutschen, nicht vorbei: Die Kindheit in Mädchenkleidern, die jäh beendet wird durch den Besuch der Militärrealschule, seine - milde ausgedrückt - unkonventionellen Beziehungen zu... Read more

Rising Tide - Abridged

By: John M. Barry

Narrated by: George Grizzard

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more

Before the Wind - Abridged

By: Charles Tyng

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seafaring literature, no fictional sailor's story can match this true, real-life adventure. Before the Wind is the memoir of early nineteenth-century sea captain Charles Tyng— from his childhood and love affair with the sea to his rise through the ranks to captain and ship owner in the tea and sugar trade. Before the Wind takes... Read more

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more

False Prophets - Abridged

By: Dale Jakes & Connie Jakes

Narrated by: Dale Jakes

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dale and Connie Jakes, working for the FBI, provide a firsthand account of life under the deepest cover inside the violent, armed strongholds of the Montana Freemen organization. In 1995, the Jakes lived in the Montana mountains, discovering a major center of American terrorism. They exposed vital information about how widespread,... Read more

Hörportrait: Heinrich Heine - Abridged

By: Sven Görtz

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht..." (Heinrich Heine, aus: Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen). Dachte er dabei nicht vielmehr an die im französischen Exil so schmerzlich vermisste Mutter? Dieses Hörportrait beschreibt die Vielschichtigkeit des Schriftstellers, der immer wieder mit scharfer, ironischer Feder... Read more

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

They Marched Into Sunlight - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.

With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of... Read more

Hörportrait: Marilyn Monroe - Abridged

By: Sven Görtz & Jörg Schneider

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Pfeiffer Lea

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Von allen auf die Rolle des Sexsymbols reduziert, war sie innerlich zerrissen und ohne jegliches Selbstbewusstsein - ein Zustand, den Marilyn Monroe mit immer größeren Mengen von Tabletten und Alkohol zu bekämpfen versuchte. Ihr früher, mysteriöser Tod und ihr glamouröses Leben sind Gegenstand des Hörportraits. Es beschreibt den Aufstieg... Read more

The Demon in the Freezer - Abridged

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more

Jawbreaker - Abridged

By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Gary Berntsen

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

Sleeping With the Devil - Abridged

By: Robert Baer

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and... Read more

Hörportrait: Nostradamus - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Reiner Schöne

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die neueste Ausgabe der Biographien-Serie "Hörportrait" befasst sich mit einer der kontroversesten Figuren des Mittelalters: Nostradamus. Schon zu Lebzeiten erlangte er weltweite Berühmtheit, indem er den gewaltsamen Tod des Königs Heinrich II. vorhersagte. Seine Prophezeiungen, in denen er unter anderem die Herrschaften von Napoleon und Hitler... Read more

The Titanic Disaster Hearings - Abridged

By: Tom Kuntz & Michael York

Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On April 10, 1912, The RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. But on the night of April 14, the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Merely one day after the Titanic survivors arrived in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an... Read more

Lost Christianity - Abridged

By: Jacob Needleman

Narrated by: Jacob Needleman

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Embark on a worldwide journey with renowned scholar of comparative religion, Jacob Needleman, as he gathers together ancient texts and writings of the modern practitioners of essential Christianity. Needleman demonstrates that a more effective, contemplative tradition existed in the early church and continues today in the lives of extraordinary... Read more

Schopenhauer für Anfänger - Abridged

By: Susanne Möbuß

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Arthur Schopenhauers Hauptwerk "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" zählt zu den wirkungsmächtigsten philosophischen Schriften des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dies gilt nicht nur für den Bereich der Philosophie, sondern auch für Literatur und Kunst, für Psychologie und Anthropologie bis hin zur Sozialforschung. Das vorliegende Hörbuch bietet sich als... Read more

Blood Warriors - Abridged

By: Col. Michael Lee Lanning

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rangers, Green Berets, SEALs, Delta Force, LRRPs, Force Recon—
and the struggle of the best and the bravest to keep America free

They’re some of the toughest and most highly trained fighting men in the world—going where no ordinary soldier would go and doing what no ordinary soldier would dare. Outnumbered and outgunned, operating in small teams... Read more