History audiobooks

An Imperfect God - Abridged

By: Henry Wiencek

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery

When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding... Read more

Harvey Penick's Little Red Book - Abridged

By: Harvey Penick

Narrated by: Jack Whitaker

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from the Penick family archives.

The most... Read more

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Abridged

By: Clayborne Carson

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world —and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all.

Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The dedicated minister who questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his... Read more

Paço do Senado - Abridged

By: Moreira de Azevedo

Narrated by: Yuri Ribeiro

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em tempos antigos, existia uma cidade na rua que hoje é chamada de Uruguaiana. Além dessa rua, havia um grande campo onde ficava a capela de São Domingos. No entanto, com a construção da capela de Santa Ana e a expansão das casas ao redor da capela de São Domingos, o campo passou a ser conhecido como campo de Santa Ana. No início do século, o... 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

STILL DREAMING: ANOTHER YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB - Abridged

By: Alex Fynn & Martin Cloake

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a season in the life of one of the Premier League’s biggest clubs. But Tottenham Hotspur hold a unique position in that group, having won just two League Cups since the Premier League was formed and the modern football boom began.Authors Alex Fynn and Martin Cloake follow the team through the 2022/23 season, another in which... Read more

No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan - Abridged

By: Ben F. Schemmer & John T. Carney Jr.

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous... Read more

A Different Drummer - Abridged

By: Michael K. Deaver

Narrated by: Michael K. Deaver

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling memoir of Ronald Reagan by his longtime aide and friend""These are memories of a friend and they span over the 35 years that I have known and loved Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Primarily anecdotal, there will be no footnotes, simply my best efforts to reconstruct these years and what they have meant to me.""--Michael... Read more

The Narnian - Abridged

By: Alan Jacobs

Narrated by: Alan Jacobs

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who created this world? This audio book attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis... Read more

Treason - Abridged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”

In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more

3 HISTORIA REALES DE PERSONAS QUE DEJARON UN PROFUNDO MISTERIO, EL TRAPERO LOCO DE RAT RIVER, LORI ERICA KENNEDY, EL HOMBRE DE LA MONTAÑA DE SAN PEDRO - Abridged

By: Victor Montas

Narrated by: Victor Montas

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

¡Bienvenidos todos los amantes del misterio y las historias intrigantes! Estamos emocionados de compartir contigo un viaje lleno de suspenso y enigmas a través de nuestro audio libro "Tres Misterios Reales". Antes de sumergirnos en estas fascinantes narrativas, queremos invitarte a que te relajes, encuentres un lugar cómodo y prepares tu mente... Read more

John Bunyan - Abridged

By: John Brown

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A traveling tinker, John Bunyan accepted long imprisonment rather than give up preaching the Gospel. He explained the life of the Spirit in language the common people could understand and in pictures that stuck in the mind. When he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, his fame spread rapidly, and within fifty years of his death, the book was reputed to... Read more

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

George Washington - Abridged

By: John Guccion

Narrated by: John Guccion

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Step into the remarkable life of George Washington, an unwavering leader whose dedication to reason and virtue paved the way for American independence against daunting odds. This audiobook offers an abridged version of "Life Stories for Young People: George Washington," a historical narrative by German author Ferdinand Schmidt, translated for... Read more

Champions Again: The Story of Liverpool’s 30-Year Wait for the Title - Abridged

By: Ian Carroll

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2020, Liverpool Football Club reclaimed its position as the number one football team in England. But it was a journey that had taken the world-famous club 30 years; a journey that was filled with drama, intrigue, and numerous false dawns.Written by a lifelong Liverpool fan, this is a dramatic story of highs and lows, and how the club overcame... Read more

Being Digital - Abridged

By: Nicholas Negroponte

Narrated by: Penn Jillette

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as... 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

No Ordinary Time - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.

With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more

On War - Abridged

By: Carl von Clausewitz

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Prussian soldier and writer, Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory. Perhaps best known among his numerous pronouncements is that war is a continuation of politics by other means. His theories and observations in this work have been heeded by military strategists for nearly two hundred years. Many have considered this to be... Read more

سينما دروم - Abridged

By: هاجر أحمد المحارفي

Narrated by: هبة بيشاني

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

من عشاق شخصيات ديزني و أميرات ديزني بالأخص، ومنذ أن كنت طفلة - ومازلت إلى هذه اللحظة - وأنا أتمنى أن أكون إحداهن، بأن يكون لي قصر وأمير وأصدقاء من الحيوانات، وحياة سعيدة مليئة بالأغاني السعيدة، ولكن خيالات الأفلام قد تكون واقعاً مراً لأحده. Read more

No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story - Abridged

By: Amy Waters Yarsinske

Narrated by: Gary Telles

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead.On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in... Read more

Robert Altman - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

فضائي الداخلي - Abridged

By: هلا حسين عجيمي

Narrated by: هبة بيشاني

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الكتاب الذي بين يديك ثمرة دراسة 4 سنوات في مجال تخصصي (التصميم الداخلي) و 4 سنوات أخرى بدأت برحلة الدخول والتعرف على عالم (اضطراب طيف التوحد) مُلخصة لك في كتاب واحد ليكون عونا ودليلا للتعرف على أهم الأسس والمعايير التي تساعدك في تصميم بيئة مريحة وفعالة لطفلك التوحدي وخاصة في المنزل Read more

The Queen Mother - Abridged

By: William Shawcross

Narrated by: William Shawcross

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and,... Read more