History audiobooks

Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 1 - A Era Primitiva - Abridged

By: Al Truesdale

Narrated by: Marcelo de Assis

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em Heróis da igreja - A Era Primitiva você conhecerá alguns dos pais da Igreja que viveram logo depois dos apóstolos e antes do primeiro concílio geral, em Niceia (325 d.C.). A fé que esses homens e mulheres expressaram e praticaram num ambiente amplamente pagão inspiram o cristão de hoje, que continua a ler seus escritos para devoção e... Read more

Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 3 - A Era da Reforma - Abridged

By: Al Truesdale

Narrated by: Marcelo de Assis

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em Heróis da Igreja - A Era da Reforma, abre-se uma janela para desbravar um período da Igreja marcado por sérias divisões, muitas das quais ainda permanecem. Neste volume foram reunidos escritos dos séculos 16 e 17, incluindo documentos da época da Reforma Protestante e da Reforma Católica, esta última comumente denominada Contrarreforma. A Era... Read more

Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 4 - A Era Moderna - Abridged

By: Al Truesdale

Narrated by: Marcelo de Assis

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Era Moderna apresenta um período singular da história da Igreja, fruto dos desafios e das oportunidades deixados pela modernidade. Os escritos buscam responder a questões sobre como conciliar ou questionar o pensamento moderno à luz da tradição cristã, destacando a contínua presença redentora e criativa de Deus no meio de seu povo. A Era... Read more

Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 5 - A Era Contemporânea - Abridged

By: Al Truesdale

Narrated by: Marcelo de Assis

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em A Era Contemporânea chegamos a um período da história em que alguns decretaram o fim da religião. Este volume traz os escritos de cristãos que, na contramão desse contexto de declarada autonomia humana, deram vigorosos testemunhos de fé em Deus e dependência dele. Com A Era Contemporânea completamos nossa coleção Heróis da Igreja, na certeza... Read more

We Blacks - Abridged

By: Bantu Stephen Biko

Narrated by: Hangwi Liphadzi & Asi Liphadzi

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frank Talk with Biko: We Blacks. A collection of publicly available writings, speeches and interviews by Steve Bantu Biko in the seminal time of the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s. These are collated into audio to give Biko a voice in these modern times that so desperately needs to listen to him. Biko's words are not only prophetic... Read more

Character Is Destiny - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Character is Destiny, McCain tells the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit. He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity, and sacrifices for a cause greater than ... 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

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

An Unfinished Life - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more

To Conquer the Air - Abridged

By: James Tobin

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in... Read more

Sinatra - Abridged

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

The Art of War - Abridged

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Chris Tester

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you’re looking to conquer your enemies or fight business battles, The Art of War is a time-tested and influential classic for gaining competitive advantage.Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is one of the most well-known works of military tactical writing in the world. Written in the 5th century, this book presents military strategies and wisdom... Read more

Primórdios da campanha: Trechos selecionados de A Retirada da Laguna - Abridged

By: Visconde de Taunay

Narrated by: Diego Muras

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crônica histórica no contexto da Guerra do Paraguai sobre a formação de um corpo militar destinado a marchar sobre o alto Paraguai. Detalhes sobre as distâncias percorridas, as imensidões da fronteira, as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno e até mesmo pela moral da tropa. Read more

109 East Palace - Abridged

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.

In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more

The Lost Men - Abridged

By: Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.

When the Ross Sea ship, the... Read more

Rumo à fronteira paraguaia - Abridged

By: Visconde de Taunay

Narrated by: Diego Muras

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crônica histórica no contexto da Guerra do Paraguai sobre o avanço do exército brasileiro ao território paraguaio com o apoio de um guia. Detalhes sobre as cidades, os escombros, as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno e até mesmo pela moral da tropa. 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

Outposts - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the... Read more

Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy - Abridged

By: Partha Bose

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history. In our time, his example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner (who keeps a bronze bust of Alexander in his office) to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff - Abridged

By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew & Annette L. Drew

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for... Read more

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary Wa - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The people of Cuba struggled against immense odds to emerge victorious from years of brutal dictatorship and poverty in 1959. This is Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account of the transformation of a country and also the transformation of Che himself - from a troop doctor to a revolutionary leader, who would become one of the greatest icons of... Read more

Páginas de hoje: Diário de um nevrostênico, para uso próprio - Abridged

By: Valentim Magalhães

Narrated by: Paulo Carvalho

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Com profundidade singular, "Páginas de hoje" parte do mote recorrente do diário encontrado pelo narrador (aqui, na mesa de um hotel), para explorar os mistérios da vida, chegando até o que hoje se chama "mindfulness". Dentre os temas que são alvo da atenção do narrador, tem destaque a maternidade, pintada com cores fortes por Valentim Magalhães.... 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

The Golden Needle - Abridged

By: Gillian Bickley

Narrated by: Verner Bickley

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frederick Stewart, born in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was the first headmaster of the HK Govt Central School for Boys (now Queen's College) and second Inspector of Schools. He was considered by contemporaries as the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education. At the Central School, his consistent policy was to educate pupils in Western... Read more