History audiobooks
Nieder mit Napoleon - Abridged
By: Karl Höffkes
Narrated by: Matthias Garg & Eva Garg
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Nieder mit Napoleon!" Die Geschichte des Preußischen Freiheitskampfes Im Dezember 1804 kennt ganz Paris nur ein Thema: die anstehende Krönungszeremonie des Generals Napoleon Bonaparte zum Kaiser der Franzosen. Für den Krönungszug ließ Napoleon die Straßen neu pflastern und ganze Häuserzeilen abreißen, weil sie ihm im Wege standen.... Read more
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The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged
By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.
At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more
Atatürk - Abridged
By: Fabio L. Grassi
Narrated by: Kerem Fırtına
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk'ü bu kez "dışarı"dan bir gözle, tarihçi Fabio L. Grassi anlatıyor. Cumhuriyet'in kurucu liderinin nasıl yetiştiğini, sürdürdüğü askeri ve siyasi mücadeleleri, barışçı bir devlet adamı ve gözü pek bir devrimci olarak yaşadığı hayatı ele alıyor... "Fabio L. Grassi'nin kitabı İtalyanlar kadar Türk okuru için de önem arz... Read more
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Les voix des hommes célèbres - Abridged
By: various
Narrated by: De Gaulle, Pétain, Roosevelt, Eisenhower & etc
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Les voix des figures qui ont marqué notre histoire et changé le monde. De Gaulle (appels des 22 et 28 juin 1940) ; Hitler (1er septembre 1939) au sujet de la Pologne ; Roosevelt (1942) ; Mussolini (14 mai 1939) ; Daladier (21 septembre 1939) ; Eisenhower (septembre 1944) ; Pétain (17 juin 1940) ; Goebbels (15 mars 1939) ; Elisabeth d'Angleterre... Read more
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The Path Between the Seas - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the... 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
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Pigs at the Trough - Abridged
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Alison Fraser
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Read more
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An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged
By: Jimmy Carter
Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“An American classic.” —The New Yorker
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.
Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more
La battaglia di Verdun - Abridged
By: Alan King
Narrated by: Librinpillole & William Angiuli
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dicembre 1915, l'Europa è in fiamme e gli eserciti di Guglielmo II si preparano a sferrare un attacco senza precedenti contro la linea difensiva francese a Verdun. Se la città cade, i tedeschi avranno la strada libera per conquistare Parigi. Inizia così una delle più sanguinose battaglie della storia, durata quasi un anno e costata la vita a... Read more
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Absolutely American - Abridged
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: David Lipsky
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more
A Long Way from Home - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years
From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into... Read more
Aqueduto da Carioca e Chafariz da Praça de Dom Pedro II - Abridged
By: Moreira de Azevedo
Narrated by: Yuri Ribeiro
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mais do que arquitetura e design, o leitor encontra aqui um retrato curioso do período histórico que abrange, entre outros momentos, a abdicação de D. Pedro I, a constituição da primeira regência e a antecipação da maioridade de D. Pedro II. O texto descreve a construção do Aqueduto da Carioca e do Chafariz da Praça de Dom Pedro II, destacando... Read more
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Politics Lost - Abridged
By: Joe Klein
Narrated by: Joe Klein
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: Yes
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be... Read more
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The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth - Abridged
By: Mr Punch
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter OBE & Robin Welch
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth performed by JENNY AGUTTER in a dramatised setting “The English countryside at the end of the 18th century is brought almost photographically before us and Jenny Agutter brings her splendidly to life.” (Good Book Guide) “...Her prose and obvious love of nature rival her brother’s poetic interpretations...... Read more
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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
Índios - Paz e guerra na província de Santa Cruz: Trechos selecionados de História da Província de Santa Cruz - Abridged
By: Pero de Magalhães Gândavo
Narrated by: Yuri Ribeiro
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Todos [os índios], como digo, são iguais e em tudo tão conformes nas condições, que ainda nesta parte vivem justamente e conforme à lei da natureza". Em tempos de desrespeito crescente às comunidades indígenas, muito oportuna a leitura desta seleção de textos do livro "História da província de Santa Cruz", onde Gandavo analisa os costumes dos... Read more
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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
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Ulysses S. Grant - Abridged
By: Josiah Bunting, III
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the man who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But... Read more
The Last Tycoons - Abridged
By: William Cohan
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its... Read more
The Code Book - Abridged
By: Simon Singh
Narrated by: Patty Nieman
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War... Read more
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Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1 - Abridged
By: Eric Bentley
Narrated by: Claire Bloom, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bik...
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsEric Bentley has chosen highlights from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee to demonstrate HUAC’s focus on artists, intellectuals, and performers. Volume 1: 1938–1948 includes the testimonies of Hallie Flanagan, Ayn Rand, Adolphe... Read more
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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
Taking Heat - Abridged
By: Ari Fleischer
Narrated by: Ari Fleischer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
For two and a half years, Ari Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the voice of President George W. Bush.In Taking Heat, Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing, giving his perspectives on:• September 11, 2001, its aftermath, and the anthrax scare • The pressure-filled... Read more
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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
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