History audiobooks

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

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

Paul Newman - Abridged

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... 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

FDR - Abridged

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean ... Read more

One Bullet Away - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Fick

Narrated by: Nathaniel Fick

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle -- Recon -- four years... Read more

Utopía - Abridged

By: Tomás Moro & Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un texto capital del Renacimiento que nos recuerda que imaginar la libertad es más urgente que nunca. Más de quinientos años después de su publicación, Utopía sigue siendo un hito del pensamiento político occidental, así como el más alto referente de la necesidad humana de construir mundos posibles. Esta bella edición incluye una introducción... 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

The Dead Hand - Abridged

By: David Hoffman

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll

The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.

The Cold War was an... Read more

Zlata's Diary - Abridged

By: Zlata Filipovic

Narrated by: Dorota Puzio & Janine di Giovanni

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the world

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-to-day record of the life... 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

The Road Ahead - Abridged

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Rick Adamson & Bill Gates

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. Read more

L'Utilitarisme - Abridged

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Joffrey Lorre

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Plongez dans l'œuvre emblématique de John Stuart Mill, "L'Utilitarisme", un classique incontournable de la philosophie morale. Publié pour la première fois en 1863, ce livre explore en profondeur le concept de l'utilitarisme, une théorie éthique qui propose que l'action la plus juste est celle qui maximise le bonheur et minimise la... Read more

Beyond Belief - Abridged

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas

Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first... Read more

Population: 485 - Abridged

By: Michael Perry

Narrated by: Michael Perry

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today)Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior... Read more

The Gifts Of The Jews - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Blood and Thunder - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed... Read more

马云：我的关键时刻 - Abridged

By: 叶光森

Narrated by: 小朱

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

马云说自己不懂IT，却成为了中国公认的互联网领军人物。马云说自己不懂管理，却一手缔造了市值数千亿美元的阿里巴巴帝国。很多人把马云的成功简单归结于"时势造英雄"，历史上确实有很多人仅仅因为把握住了历史时机而成为富翁，不过想凭借幸运做一家超级企业，却几乎不可能。真正能做成一家超级大企业还需要智慧。本书通过聚焦马云人生与事业中的四个关键时刻，解读是凭借什么样智慧，能让马云能连续做出最正确的选择。而正是持续的正确选择，让阿里巴巴成长为千亿美元级别的巨无霸。 Read more

The Curse of the Bambino - Abridged

By: Dan Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Ken Coleman

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Boston Red Sox's loss to the New York Yankees in the final game of last year's playoffs has been called "the game of the century," evidence that the rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees is hotter than ever. In the wake of that defeat, author and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy has updated his bewitching story of the... Read more

A marcha da abolição: Trechos selecionados de A abolição - Abridged

By: Osório Duque-Estrada

Narrated by: Agatha Duarte

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Nestes trechos selecionados do livro "A abolição", de Osório Duque-Estrada, destacam-se, ao modo de uma cronologia, os desdobramentos do chamado "gabinete Dantas" – espécie de trégua na luta entre escravagistas e abolicionistas, que antecedeu a abolição. Chama a atenção a comoção do povo frente aos passos dessa marcha, como a eleição de Joaquim... 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

Julio Verne - Abridged

By: Bonalletra Alcompás

Narrated by: Fernando Masía, Fernando Alvarez & Immaculada V...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

DEJA QUE EL MISMÍSIMO JULIO VERNE TE EXPLIQUE SU VIDA EN PRIMERA PERSONA Y COMO SI FUERA UN DIVERTIDO CUENTO ILUSTRADO. Seguro que tienes un juego preferido. Yo también tuve uno. ¿Quieres que te lo explique? Me gustaba pensar en lugares lejanos y desconocidos, espacios a los que ninguna persona hubiera podido viajar. Cuando ya lo tenía... Read more

A Ásia é logo ali - Abridged

By: Vários Autores

Narrated by: Adriana Sousa & Geraldo Côrtes

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Ásia é Logo Ali é um convite para embarcar em uma viagem cultural pelas principais festividades que iluminam e celebram a diversidade do continente asiático. Conheça de perto o vibrante Festival das Lanternas na China, o intenso Thaipusam na Malásia, o exótico Songkran na Tailândia e outras celebrações que refletem a rica herança cultural, os... Read more