History audiobooks

The War - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series

The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are ordinary men and women who experienced–and helped to win–the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.

Focusing on the citizens of four towns–Luverne,... Read more

La guerre du feu - Abridged

By: Rosny Aisné

Narrated by: William Cros

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La Guerre du feu est un roman écrit par J.-H. Rosny aîné et paru pour la première fois en France en 1911. Il remporta un gros succès et a suscité de nombreuses adaptations. L'auteur situe son roman au cœur de la Préhistoire, soit environ cent mille ans dans le passé. Depuis des générations, la vie de la tribu des Oulhamrs s'est organisée autour... Read more

Novalis - Abridged

By: Egon Fridell

Narrated by: Jan Köster

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedrich von Hardenberg, der als Künstler Novalis hieß, darf als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der Romantik gelten. Neben und nach ihm wirkten auch andre hochbegabte romantische Dichter und Schriftsteller, aber in keinem ist der romantische Geist so zu Fleisch und Blut geworden, wie in ihm: er ist gleichsam der Archetype der Romantik. Was... Read more

Kant 3.0 - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl & Lesch Harald

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl & Harald Lesch

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WWW so heißt heute die Lösung für die meisten Probleme. Ein kurzer Blick ins Internet und schon ist die Frage gelöst. WWW so könnte man auch Immanuel Kants Projekt der Philosophie nennen: Kant 3.0: Was kann ich wissen? Was soll ich tun? Was darf ich hoffen? Damit hat Kant die Philosophie auf den Punkt gebracht. Seine Antworten darauf haben auch... Read more

فلسفة فويرباخ: بين المادية والإنسانية - Abridged

By: نادية أحمد النصراوي

Narrated by: صوفيا حجازين

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

في الوقت الذي بدأ فيه «فويرباخ» أبحاثه في الدين، كان الفلسفة المثالية قد بلغت القمة في عهد التنوير الألماني، خاصةً فلسفة هيجل. وجد فويرباخ نفسه أمام كنيسة معادية للعقل والتقدم، ومتحالفة مع السلطة القمعية الحاكمة. وكان هو يطمح إلى فلسفة تلائم المستقبل، فلسفة بعيدة عن الإدعاءات المثالية، وتتخذ من الإنسان نقطة للانطلاق، تكون قريبة منه ومن تجاربه... Read more

ظاهرة الإسلاموفوبيا - Abridged

By: محمد عمارة

Narrated by: حازم شاهين

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"الإسلاموفوبيا: هي نزعة الكراهية للإسلام، والتخويف منه، انطلاقًا من تزييف حقائقه الكبرى وصورته الأصلية والأصيلة، وظاهرة الإسلاموفوبيا، هي ظاهرة غربية، نشأت ونمت وتعاظمت في إطار الحضارة الغربية، وليس في إطار أية حضارة أخرى من الحضارات الإنسانية، أي أنها قد عبّرت عن موقف الغرب الحضاري من الشرق الإسلامي إبان صراع الغرب لاحتواء الشرق والهيمنة عليه... Read more

The Big Show - Abridged

By: Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick

Narrated by: Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the audiobook that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair. For the first time, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the tag-team partners of ESPN's award winning Sportscenter, bring what People magazine calls their "Letterman-like loopiness and Koppel-esque smarts" to... 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

Queen of Scots - Abridged

By: John Guy

Narrated by: John Guy

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources.Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of history’s greatest women.John Guy draws on sources -- many... Read more

The City of Falling Angels - Abridged

By: John Berendt

Narrated by: John Berendt

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It is Berendt and only... Read more

Obama's Wars - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2011 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the... Read more

Histoire de France par Jules Michelet - Abridged

By: Jules Michelet

Narrated by: Philippe Colin

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

L'Histoire de France de Jules Michelet est un monument. Littéraire, d'abord, par le style envolé de ce digne héritier de Dumas et par sa puissance d'évocation : Michelet s'était donné pour mission de ressuciter le passé, de faire revivre personnages et coups d'éclat qui ont construit l'identité de la France pour mettre en évidence ce qui fait... Read more

My Year in Iraq - Abridged

By: L. Paul Bremer

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Baghdad was Burning"

With these words, Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer begins his gripping memoir of fourteen danger-filled months as America's proconsul in Iraq. My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. In vivid, dramatic detail, Bremer reveals the... Read more

الدحيحة - يورجن كلوب - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: أحمد الغندور

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لماذا يحبك الناس؟ - لأنك تحبهم. كان حلمه من صغره إنه يبقى لاعب ومدير كرة قدم كبير وناجح. بدأت حكايته مع الكورة بسبب أبوه اللي كان بيعشق كرة القدم وكان قدامه فرصة للعب في نادي كبير في ألمانيا في الخمسينيات، لكن أبوه رفض فمعرفش يحقق حلمه، وكان كل هدفه لما كبر إنه يخلف ولد عشان يحقق اللي هو ماعرفش يحققه. درَّب كلوب الأب ابنه من سن صغير جدًا، لإنه... Read more

Benjamin Franklin - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... 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

The Innovators - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.

What were the talents that allowed... Read more

The Greater Journey - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.

Not all pioneers went west.

In The Greater Journey, David McCullough... Read more

Crumpy's Campfire Companion - Volume 2 - Abridged

By: Barry Crump

Narrated by: Martin Crump

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crumpy's Campfire Companion is the entertaining third part of a trilogy on The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man. In this collection of yarns, the river, the road, the ridge and the rogue all come alive in Crump's unique humorous style. The yarns reveal his understanding and compassion for the characters and life he writes about.Barry Crump has... Read more

Decision Points - Abridged

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

Crumpy's Campfire Companion - Volume 1 - Abridged

By: Barry Crump

Narrated by: Martin Crump

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crumpy's Campfire Companion is the entertaining third part of a trilogy on The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man. In this collection of yarns, the river, the road, the ridge and the rogue all come alive in Crump's unique humorous style. The yarns reveal his understanding and compassion for the characters and life he writes about. Read more

The Rehnquist Choice - Abridged

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines & John W. Dean

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The explosive story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the only person who could have revealed this information—John W. Dean.

In 1971, William Rehnquist seemed the perfect choice to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court. He was a young, well-polished lawyer who shared many of President Richard Nixon's... Read more

Death of a Dissident - Abridged

By: Alex Goldfarb & Marina Litvinenko

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled... Read more