History audiobooks

Les plus grands discours de De Gaulle - Abridged

By: De Gaulle

Narrated by: De Gaulle

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1. L'appel du 22 juin 1940 (aucun enregistrement n'a été fait le 18 juin, seul l'enregistrement du 22 juin subsiste) ; 2. Message après Bir Hakeim : 11 juin 1942 ; 3. Message de Noël : 24 décembre 1943 ; 4. Message du Débarquement : 6 juin 1944 ; 5. La Libération de Paris : 28 août 1944 (discours à l'hôtel de Ville et Magnificat à Notre Dame de... Read more

Cinderella Man - Abridged

By: Jeremy Schaap

Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more

Le château féodal - Abridged

By: Marc Vincent

Narrated by: Marc Vincent

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Parmi les meilleurs souvenirs des premières leçons d'initiation à l'histoire, ceux qui se rapportent au château féodal tiennent une place privilégiée. C'est autour de l'évocation du château fort que se construit toute l'histoire de la société féodale. La période féodale a laissé sur notre sol des ruines nombreuses. Le but de ce livre audio est... Read more

Vercingétorix - Abridged

By: Marc Vincent

Narrated by: Marc Vincent & Georges Descrières

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fils du chef de la puissante tribu des Arvernes, Vercingétorix apparaît aux yeux des historiens comme la figure la plus marquante de l'époque gallo-romaine. Son rôle dans l'histoire antique est essentiel puisqu'il est le premier à fédérer la plupart des peuples de Gaule dans la lutte contre l'ennemi romain. Sa jeunesse est pourtant partagée... Read more

Rome 1960 - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world.


Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda... Read more

Confederates in the Attic - Abridged

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

Don't Know Much About Anything - Abridged

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Entertainment and More! is a compendium of around 275 columns, sorted into the subject categories listed in the... Read more

Andrew Jackson - Abridged

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.

The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first “common... Read more

The Google Story - Abridged

By: David A. Vise & Mark Malseed

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and... 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

Cäsar läßt grüßen - Abridged

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Norbert Langer

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Hörbuch macht tausend Jahre Römische Geschichte zu einem Abenteuer und vermittelt das Gefühl, selbst unter Römern gelebt und Cäsar, Augustus und Claudius kennen gelernt zu haben. Die Vergangenheit wird wieder lebendig und historische Gestalten werden zu Zeitgenossen, mit denen wir reden, lachen und weinen können. Erlebtes Abenteuer... Read more

Aristoteles - Abridged

By: Fritz Mauthner

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Mauthner, der große Sprachkritiker zeigt hier, dass das Lebenswerk des berühmtesten Philosophen, der Stolz zweier Jahrtausende, nicht mehr als ein Gesellschaftsspiel war. Er nennt Aristoteles einen Denker ohne schöpferische Kraft und bescheinigt ihm keine philosophische Persönlichkeit gewesen zu sein... Read more

Wasserfahrt von Regensburg nach Trapezunt - Abridged

By: Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer

Narrated by: Gert Westphal

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der gebürtige Südtiroler Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790–1861) gilt als bedeutender Orientalist. Der Kleinbauernsohn (geboren in Tschötsch bei Brixen) war ein für seine Zeit liberaler Denker, der in München und Frankfurt tätig war, und noch heute als Gelehrter bekannt ist. Sein maßgebliches Werk "Fragmente aus dem Orient", 1845 erstmals... Read more

L'Illiade et L'Odyssée - Abridged

By: Homère

Narrated by: Alain Cuny, Michel Galabru & various

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

L'Iliade : La première épopée du vieux continent conte les derniers moments de la guerre de Troie et la terrible vengeance d'Achille à qui le roi Agamemnon a volé sa captive favorite. L'Odyssée : Dans une Grèce éternelle, Pénélope attend celui qu'elle aime, Ulysse, qui ne rentrera à Ithaque qu'au terme de dix ans d'aventures face auxquelles il... Read more

De la vie heureuse de Sénèque - Abridged

By: Sénèque

Narrated by: Karine Adrover

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

" De la vie heureuse " est un traité de sagesse, intemporel et universel. Il a été écrit par Sénèque comme un dialogue avec un interlocuteur imaginaire, vers 58 après Jésus Christ. Son principal objet est de montrer que le bonheur n'est pas matériel, mais naît d'une vie en accord avec la vertu et la raison (selon les préceptes du stoïcisme).... Read more

Die Ritter - Abridged

By: Herbert Lenz

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tapferkeit, Treue und Heldenmut, aber auch Galanterie und Edelmut, diese Tugenden bezeichnen bis heute den typischen Ritter vergangener Zeiten. In der rauhen Wirklichkeit des Mittelalters sah es jedoch selten so rosig aus. Richard Löwenherz, Heinrich der Löwe und Friedrich Barbarossa bedienten sich einer Armee von treu ergebenen Kriegern zu... Read more

De la patience de St Augustin - Abridged

By: Saint Augustin

Narrated by: Fabienne Prost

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Saint Augustin dans 'Les confessions' décrit sa conversion au christianisme avec une sincérité qui vaut plus que beaucoup de biographies. Le jeune Augustin est attiré par la philosophie, et se rapproche des mouvements manichéens, avant de se tourner vers le néo-platonisme, mais c'est sous l'influence de la pensée de saint Ambroise qu'il décide... 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

Can't Is Not an Option - Abridged

By: Nikki Haley

Narrated by: Nikki Haley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A rising star in the Republican Party shares her inspirational memoir of family, hope, and the power of the American Dream. Decades before their daughter surprised the nation by becoming governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley's parents had a dream. Ajit and Raj Randhawa were well-educated, well-off Sikhs in the Punjab region of India. But... Read more

50 Battles That Changed the World - Abridged

By: William Weir

Narrated by: Rick Turner

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military... Read more

Pillar of Fire - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.

In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more

Psychic Warrior - Abridged

By: David Morehouse

Narrated by: David Morehouse

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For nearly two decades, the United States military intelligence community delved into the dark world of psychic espionage, recruiting a team of individuals who used their paranormal gifts to transcend time and space and uncover the highly guarded military secrets of other nations. After David Morehouse— a highly decorated Army... Read more

The Jesus Dynasty - Abridged

By: James D. Tabor

Narrated by: James D. Tabor

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on a careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, The Jesus Dynasty offers a bold new interpretation of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The story is surprising, controversial and exciting as only a long-lost history can be when it is at last recovered.

In The Jesus... Read more