History audiobooks

Platon - Abridged

By: August Messer

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Platon von August Messer Platon bildet die Höhe der gesamten griechischen Philosophie, indem in ihm ihre beiden Hauptrichtungen, das Erkenntnisverlangen und der Gestaltungstrieb, das wissenschaftliche und das künstlerische Streben, sich miteinander verbinden. Der weltüberlegene Denker wird zum kühnen und leidenschaftlichen Reformator, er... Read more

Descartes und Spinoza - Abridged

By: August Messer

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Begründer der rationalistischen Richtung der neueren Philosophie ist René Descartes. Seine erkenntnistheoretischen Erwägungen (cogito, ergo sum) führen zu geistiger Selbstständigkeit. Baruch de Spinoza war ebenfalls Rationalist. Die Mathematik mit ihrem deduktiven Verfahren gilt ihm wie schon Descartes, als das Ideal menschlicher... Read more

Jazz - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their best.

Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and... Read more

Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Johannes Calvin und die Reformation - Abridged

By: Rudolf Eucken

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Luther ist allen bekannt und in aller Munde, aber deshalb ist er uns keineswegs mit dem vollen Bilde seines Wesens und Wirkens gegenwärtig. Nicht nur haftet meist der Blick zu ausschließlich an der religiösen Bewegung, die von ihm ausging, auch wird nicht ge-nügend anerkannt, daß die Erneuerung der Religion ihre einzig-artige Kraft und Wucht aus... Read more

Blue Skies, No Fences - Abridged

By: Lynne Cheney

Narrated by: Lynne Cheney

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in... Read more

Richard Wagner - Abridged

By: Friedrich von Hausegger

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedrich von Hausegger Richard Wagner - Aus dem Geiste der Musik geboren "Nicht die Entwicklung des Dramas war es, die nach Musik verlangte, sondern die Entwicklung der Musik vielmehr hat der dramatischen Gestaltung zugestrebt. Ein Musiker musste es sein, d. h. ein Künstler mit dem Drange, in unmittelbarstem Gefühlsausdrucke sich selbst zu... Read more

Luckiest Man - Abridged

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... 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

Die Sieben Weltwunder - Abridged

By: Ernst von Khuon

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Sieben Weltwunder des Alterstums sind jedem ein Begriff, aber welche sind es genau und was machte sie zu Weltwundern? Sieben mussten es sein, Sieben gilt als heilige Zahl. Ernst von Khuon geht auf Reise in die Vergangenheit und erweckt die Geschichte zum Leben. Ohne sie jemals selber gesehen zu haben, erkennen wir die Erhabenheit, die... Read more

Julius Cäsar - Abridged

By: Theodor Birt

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Julius Cäsar wurde 100 vor Christus in Rom geboren, als einziger Sohn einer Adelsfamilie. Ehrgeiz, Redetalent und Intelligenz zeichneten ihn aus. Er wurde zum größten Feldherr der Antike, war begnadeter Demagoge und skrupelloser Machtpolitiker, aber auch ein leidenschaftlicher Liebhaber, der den Reizen der jungen Kleopatra erlag. In diesem... Read more

Friedrich Wilhelm I. - Abridged

By: Jakob Wassermann

Narrated by: Markus Krochmann

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedrich Wilhelm I. König von Preußen - auch be-kannt als "Soldatenkönig" - schrieb über sich selbst einmal: "Mein ganzes Leben hindurch fand ich mich genötigt, zwei Leidenschaften anzuhängen, die ich nicht [sic!] hatte: eine war ungereimter Geiz und die andere eine ausschweifende Neigung für große Soldaten. Nur wegen dieser so sehr in die... Read more

Immanuel Kant - Abridged

By: Rudolf Eucken & Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es dauerte eine Weile, bis Kants Zeitumgebung erkannte, wie sehr seine Leistung ihrem eigenen Streben entgegen-kam. Aber als sie es erkannte, da fielen ihm weiteste Kreise mit heller Begeisterung zu und folgten den von ihm eröffneten Bahnen. Denn sein Werk schien das sie beseelende Verlangen nach Freiheit erst recht zu begründen und abschließend... Read more

Wenn die Gewalt erscheint - Abridged

By: Peter Sloterdijk & Gunnar Heinsohn

Narrated by: Peter Sloterdijk & Gunnar Heinsohn

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1 | Peter Sloterdijk: Wenn die Gewalt erscheint – Versuch über die Explosivität der Bilder Sendung: 26.12.1994 Urszenen der Gewalt finden sich bereits in der griechischen Mythologie. Der blutige Streit zwischen Thyestes und Atreus findet seinen Höhepunkt, als letzterer dem Bruder die eigenen Kinder zum Mahl vorsetzt. Als er erkennt, was ihm... Read more

Fiasco - Abridged

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

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Ask Not - Abridged

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those... Read more

The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times - Abridged

By: Max Frankel

Narrated by: Max Frankel

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within... Read more

America Back on Track - Abridged

By: Edward M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Edward M. Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation.

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Faith of My Fathers - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies."... Read more

Population: 485 - Abridged

By: Michael Perry

Narrated by: Michael Perry

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today)Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior... Read more

The Confession - Abridged

By: James E. McGreevey

Narrated by: James E. McGreevey

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he declared ""My truth is that I am a gay American,"" and announced his resignation. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise, and redemption. From childhood, McGreevey lived a kind of idealized... Read more

Taking Heat - Abridged

By: Ari Fleischer

Narrated by: Ari Fleischer

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

For two and a half years, Ari Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the voice of President George W. Bush.In Taking Heat, Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing, giving his perspectives on:• September 11, 2001, its aftermath, and the anthrax scare • The pressure-filled... Read more

An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker

In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more

Condição da mulher na Europa e nos EUA: Textos selecionados de Opúsculo humanitário - Abridged

By: Nísia Floresta

Narrated by: Marcela de Barros

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Demonstrar a influência que tem a educação das mulheres sobre a moralidade e a civilização dos seus povos": eis o desejo subjacente de Nísia Floresta nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro "Opúsculo humanitário". Ela destaca aqui os privilégios reais e o respeito à mulher na Alemanha, a liberdade e os direitos próprios da mulher na... Read more

Lukull - Abridged

By: Theodor Birt

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lukull von Theodor Birt Lucius Licinius Lucullus, besser bekannt als Lukull und Sinnstifter der deutschen Redewendung "lukullische Genüsse", lebte von 117 v.Chr. bis 56 v.Chr. Für das Römische Reich zog er als Feldherr gegen Mithridates und schlug diesen in mehreren Schlachten und eroberte das Königreich Pontos. Mit den Reichtümern, die er... Read more