History audiobooks

Seven Years in Tibet - Abridged

By: Heinrich Harrer

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dramatized in a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes... Read more

Franklin and Winston - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
 
“Intense and compelling... 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

L'uomo incapace di sorridere - Abridged

By: Giancarlo Villa

Narrated by: Marco Balbi, Alessandro Cartellucci, Francesco ...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Londra, 28 Novembre 1962. E' una piovosa serata di fine autunno, gelida e cupa. Due avventori del locale "The Star" stanno godendosi gli ultimi minuti di una serata blues. Il chitarrista del gruppo è un tipo strano, cupo, eccentrico. La sua terribile storia, come scopriranno presto, è una storia di sopravvivenza estrema contro il male. La storia... Read more

Resumen 10´: “21 LECCIONES PARA EL SIGLO XXI”. - Abridged

By: Yuval Noah Harari,

Narrated by: Máximo Volpo

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El hilo conductor de este estimulante libro se centra en el desafío de mantener nuestro enfoque colectivo e individual frente al constante y desorientador cambio que estamos viviendo. ¿Somos capaces aún de entender el mundo que hemos creado?Yuval Noah Harari, en “21 lecciones para el siglo XXI”, analiza los desafíos actuales y futuros de la... Read more

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - Abridged

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”

With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the... Read more

Emancipação da mulher: Trechos selecionados de A Mulher Moderna - Abridged

By: Josefina Álvares de Azevedo

Narrated by: Marcela de Barros

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

O leitor encontra nestes trechos selecionados do livro "A mulher moderna", de Josefina Álvares de Azevedo, um texto reflexivo e muito bem embasado sobre a necessidade incontestável da educação feminina. Reiterando o fato de ser a mulher quem confere ao homem suas competências, ela defende sua emancipação: "A Educação da Mulher, na sua verdadeira... 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

Visions From a Foxhole - Abridged

By: William Foley

Narrated by: Jim Soreiro

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II

Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent straight to the front lines, arriving January 25, 1945–just in... Read more

Pequeño elogio de la fuga del mundo - Abridged

By: Rémy Oudghiri & Ana Nuño (Translator)

Narrated by: Germán Gijón

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

¿Quién no ha sentido, al menos una vez en la vida, el deseo de alejarse del mundo? ¿Quién no ha soñado con dejarlo todo y desaparecer? La tentación de la huida, el motivo de la fuga mundi, es recurrente en nuestra cultura porque permanece vivo a lo largo de la historia, y siempre provoca una mezcla de fascinación, nostalgia y callado... Read more

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

Meet You in Hell - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... 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

Hospício de Pedro II - Abridged

By: Moreira de Azevedo

Narrated by: Tom Bueno

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Já passou o tempo em que ninguém se atrevia a entrar em um hospital de doidos, receoso de penetrar em enxovias, em gaiolas de ferro, onde eram encarcerados os míseros, como se fossem feras." Retrato humano sensível e detalhado, este texto de Moreira de Azevedo, sobre a fundação do primeiro centro especializado em doenças mentais do Brasil, que... Read more

At the Center of the Storm - Abridged

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

Clemente - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food... 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

​Sobre a utilidade e a desvantagem da história para a vida - Abridged

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Alberto Eloy

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Obra fundamental para compreender a filosofia da história e a filosofia da cultura em Nietzsche, "Sobre a utilidade e a desvantagem da história para a vida", publicada em 1874, é a segunda das quatro considerações extemporâneas do autor, série de livros caracterizada pelo desejo de "intervir extemporaneamente — isto é, contra a época, sobre a... 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

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

The Hill Fights - Abridged

By: Edward F. Murphy

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... 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

Жизнь в средневековом замке - Abridged

By: Фрэнсис Гис & Джозеф Гис

Narrated by: Виталий Сулимов

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

«Жизнь в средневековом замке» — бестселлер, познакомивший бесчисленное количество читателей с повседневным миром человека эпохи Средневековья. Исследуя историю замка под названием Чепстоу на границе между Англией и Уэльсом, известные медиевисты Джозеф и Фрэнсис Гис создают изысканный и чрезвычайно наглядный портрет повседневной жизни в Средние... 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