History audiobooks

Elisabeth. Kaiserin von Österreich, genannt Sisi - Abridged

By: Gabriele Praschl-Bichler

Narrated by: Sissy Höfferer

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elisabeth Amalia Eugenia, genannt Sisi, Herzogin in Baiern, der "Wildfang von Possenhofen", heiratete 1854 ihren Vetter, den jungen Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich. Die noch nicht Siebzehnjährige, unbeschwert aufgewachsen auf dem Landsitz in Possenhofen, litt sehr unter dem spanischen Protokoll und den zeremoniellen Zwängen am Wiener Hof, und... Read more

Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Abridged

By: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?

• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it... Read more

The Man Who Owns the News - Abridged

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 01 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rosendorfer erzählt Geschichte, die fasziniert. Vor allem, wenn sie ein großer Geschichtenerzähler mit so klarem Wissen und in so unterhaltsamer Form darbringt, dabei unversehens ganz neue Zusammenhänge aufdeckt und mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe die wahren Triebfedern der Geschichte entlarvt. Herbert... Read more

The Cell - Abridged

By: John Miller & Michael Stone

Narrated by: John Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden... Read more

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... Read more

Taking Charge - Abridged

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taking Charge brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversations from his first day in... 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

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 07 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Während sich im Reich die weltliche Herrschaft gefestigt hat und die Gesellschaft nach bürgerlichen Rechten und konfessioneller Freiheit strebt, bestimmen in Österreich die Türkenkriege das Leben. Außerdem betritt Prinz Eugen die Bühne, der später eine zentrale Rolle spielen wird. Auf unnachahmliche Weise verbindet Rosendorfer sein profundes... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 08 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prinz Eugen kämpft erfolgreich gegen die Türken, trägt im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg Siege davon und fördert als Mäzen Kunst und Wissenschaft. Doch das 18. Jahrhundert wird zum Schauplatz für andere werden: Maria Theresia und Friedrich der Große. Ein kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick in bissiger Rosendorfer-Manier. Read more

Fortune's Favorite - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more

Julius Caesar - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir Ralph Richardson & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."" - AntonyA Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series -- now on digital audiobook. Read more

München - Abridged

By: Otto Zierer & Anton Kammerl

Narrated by: Andreas Giebel

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

850 Jahre München: Anekdoten- und informationsreiche Führung durch die Geschichte der Isarmetropole - gelesen vom echten Münchner Original Andreas Giebel. Von der Siedlung an den Isarufern, vom Glanz des Herrscherhauses, von der Blüte der Künste und Wissenschaften, von Hungersnöten und Kriegen bis hin zum Wiederaufbau. In lebendigen Geschichten... Read more

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

Tagebuch Luftschlacht um England - Rüdiger von Kirchmayr - Abridged

By: Rüdiger von Kirchmayr

Narrated by: Sascha Ulderup

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In diesem detailliert beschriebenen Tagebuch des Jagdfliegers Rüdiger von Kirchmayr wird der Luftkrieg über Europa in eine neue Dimension gehoben. Wir begleiten den Soldaten durch seine Ausbildung hin zum Jagdflieger, seine ersten Einsätze an der Front und auch die ersten Verluste unter den Kameraden. Die Ritterlichkeit im Luftkampf unter... Read more

Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 32 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser... Read more

Crazy Wisdom - Abridged

By: Wes "Scoop" Nisker

Narrated by: Wes "Scoop" Nisker

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers. Fun and irreverent, Crazy Wisdom synthesizes the most significant, compelling insights of the ages. Journey into the unorthodox teachings that have bubbled up through the words of such "crazy" visionaries as... Read more

Das Geheimnis des Dr. Alzheimer - Abridged

By: Jørn Precht

Narrated by: Jørn Precht

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frankfurt am Main, 1901: Der verarmte Krankenpfleger Karl Walz träumt davon, Arzt zu werden und die geheimnisvolle neue Krankheit zu enträtseln, die das Gedächtnis seiner erst 50-jährigen Ziehmutter mehr und mehr zerstört. Er erhält die Chance, als Assistent des Psychiaters und Gerichtsgutachters Dr. Alois Alzheimer zu arbeiten, doch der... Read more

Stauffenberg - Der 2. Juli 1944 (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Dirk Schwibbert

Narrated by: Oliver Nitsche & Matthias Scherwenikas

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, eine der zentralen Persönlichkeiten des Widerstandes gegen die Nationalsozialisten, verübte am 20. Juli 1944 erfolglos ein Attentat auf Adolf Hitler. Die "Operation Walküre", der geplante Staatsstreich, war damit gescheitert, die Widerständler wurden noch in der gleichen Nacht hingerichtet. Ein fesselndes... Read more

Die Erde ist heilig - Abridged

By: Michael Korth

Narrated by: Konstantin Wecker & Angelika Kirchschlager

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reden berühmter Häuptlinge wie Seattle, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Powhatan, Black Hawk oder Chief Joseph werden sprachmächtig zu Gehör gebracht von Konstantin Wecker, der Poesie und Widerstand dieser Worte wieder ins Leben ruft. Dabei wird klar, wie viel sie uns noch heute zu sagen haben auf unserer Suche nach einem natürlicheren, einfacheren und... Read more

Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: Danny Glover

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.


Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more

Lightning Out of Lebanon - Abridged

By: Tom Diaz & Barbara Newman

Narrated by: Tony Call

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now.

Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert,... Read more

Dealers of Lightning - Abridged

By: Michael A. Hiltzik

Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the... Read more

Resumen 10' “HOMO DEUS” Breve historia del mañana. - Abridged

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Máximo Volpo

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este presenta una exploración sobre el futuro de la humanidad y la evolución de las sociedades en el siglo XXI. En contraste con su libro anterior, Sapiens, que analiza el pasado de la humanidad, Homo Deus se enfoca en lo que podría depararnos el futuro, considerando los avances tecnológicos, la inteligencia artificial y las nuevas formas de... Read more