History audiobooks

American Hostage - Abridged

By: Micah Garen & Marie-Helene Carleton

Narrated by: Micah Garen & Marie-Helene Carleton

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary with their Iraqi translator Amir Doshi. In the late summer of 2004, they began to wrap up their work, and Marie-Helene returned home while Micah remained for a final two weeks of filming. As Micah and Amir were filming in a Nasiriyah market,... Read more

The Age of Anxiety - Abridged

By: Haynes Johnson

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer-Prize winner Haynes Johnson boldly revisits the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era to examine parallels today in this new age of terror and threat with a mix of narrative history, political commentary, and contemporary reporting. Read more

Imperial Ambitions - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Narrated by: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11: Was There an Alternative?, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial questions of U.S. foreign policy.

Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian... Read more

A Crack in the Edge of the World

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more

A Crack in the Edge of the World - Abridged

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces... Read more

Seize the Fire - Abridged

By: Adam Nicolson

Narrated by: Adam Nicolson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The EconomistAdam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. A story rich with modern resonance, Seize the Fire... 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

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

Deutsche Zustände (Drei Briefe)

By: Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Eva Meckbach

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Diese Texte bieten die wunderbare Gelegenheit, deutsche Geschichte zu verstehen und zu begreifen: keine angestaubte Geschichtsstunde läuft hier ab, sondern ein brillanter Denker bringt hier die wichtigsten historischen Ereignisse mit viel Sprachwitz auf den Punkt. Bilderreich und einprägsam beginnen die Texte mit der einer geistvollen... Read more

Der Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen

By: Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Arbeit ist Quelle alles Reichtums, sagen die politischen Ökonomen. (...) Sie ist aber noch unendlich viel mehr als dies: sie ist erste Grundbedingung menschlichen Lebens, sie hat den Menschen selbst geschaffen." Diese Worte stehen gleich zu Beginn des packenden Fragments, in dem Engels einen wichtigen Aspekt der Evolutionstheorie... Read more

No True Glory: Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq

By: Bing West

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it.”—Senator John McCain
 
Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory... Read more

Imperial Grunts

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.
 
Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American... Read more

The City of Falling Angels

By: John Berendt

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Warren Beatty

By: Suzanne Finstad

Narrated by: Suzanne Finstad

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the... Read more

Warren Beatty - Abridged

By: Suzanne Finstad

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the... Read more

No True Glory: Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq - Abridged

By: Bing West

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain

Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory... 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

Aristoteles - Abridged

By: Fritz Mauthner

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Mauthner, der große Sprachkritiker zeigt hier, dass das Lebenswerk des berühmtesten Philosophen, der Stolz zweier Jahrtausende, nicht mehr als ein Gesellschaftsspiel war. Er nennt Aristoteles einen Denker ohne schöpferische Kraft und bescheinigt ihm keine philosophische Persönlichkeit gewesen zu sein... Read more

Goethe, Schiller und die Romantik - Abridged

By: Rudolf Eucken

Narrated by: Various Artists

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der deutsche Humanismus bildet die Höhe der geistigen Bewegung, welche die zweite Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland erzeugte. Hier forderte die Zeit des Sturmes und Dranges mehr Unmittelbarkeit des Lebens und des Gefühles und hielt damit der Aufklärung mit ihrem Nützlichkeitsstreben sein Verlangen nach Schönheit und nach einem... Read more

Die Geschichte des Teufels - Abridged

By: Fritz Mauthner

Narrated by: Michael Kommant

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Mauthner hat in seinem vierbändigem Opus magnum "Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande" (1920-1923) auch einen historisch-philosophischen Überblick zur Kulturgeschichte des Teufels bis in das 19. Jahrhundert nachgezeichnet. Seine Darstellung endet mit der Feststellung: "Der Teufelswahn war von Anfang an und fast unlöslich mit... Read more

San Francisco Is Burning

By: Dennis Smith

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. The ensuing fires that ravaged the city for days were responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,000 more. In all, 522 blocks and 28,188 buildings were leveled, and some 200,000 people dislocated.



This... Read more

Mark Twain - Abridged

By: Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron Powers

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles Times

A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became... Read more

Andrew Jackson

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 25 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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... Read more

Imperial Grunts - Abridged

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.
 
Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American... Read more