Woodstock
By: Dale Bell
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot & Xe Sands
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award–winning documentary Woodstock. Assembled by associate producer Dale Bell, the oral history takes listeners behind the... Read more
View audiobookThe Scandalous Lady W
By: Hallie Rubenhold
Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
It was the divorce that scandalized Georgian England . . .
She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history.
For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her... Read more
The Plague of War
By: Jennifer T. Roberts
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men... Read more
View audiobookCitizen 865
By: Debbie Cenziper
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
**Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Book Award Finalist**
The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.
In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a... Read more
America's Religious History
By: Thomas S. Kidd
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In the post-9/11 world, it is not difficult to see how important religion remains in America and around the globe. An older generation of scholars expected that America and the rest of the Western world was headed inexorably toward secularization and the end of religion. America is undoubtedly secular in many ways, and our constitutional order... Read more
View audiobookThe Enduring Ancient Egyptian Musical System -- Theory and Practice
By: Moustafa Gadalla
Narrated by: Susie Hennessy
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the cosmic roots of Egyptian musical, vocal, and dancing rhythmic forms. Learn the fundamentals (theory and practice) of music in the typical Egyptian way: simple, coherent, and comprehensive. Review a detailed description of the major Egyptian musical instruments, playing techniques, functions, etc. Discover the Egyptian rhythmic... Read more
View audiobookFremdbestimmt
By: Thorsten Schulte
Narrated by: Thorsten Schulte
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Dieses Buch ist ein Warnruf an alle Europäer! Kurt Tucholsky schrieb 1931: "Das Volk versteht das meiste falsch; aber es fühlt das meiste richtig." Immer mehr Menschen fühlen, dass die Zukunft Deutschlands und Europas in Gefahr ist, verstehen jedoch noch nicht die Ursachen. Deshalb muss das ganze Ausmaß von Täuschung und Fremdbestimmung... Read more
View audiobookAs Others See Us
By: Neil MacGregor
Narrated by: Neil MacGregor & Full Cast
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
All ten episodes of BBC Radio 4’s ambitious global series, presented by Neil MacGregor
‘Insightful, provocative, satisfying’ Telegraph
With the United Kingdom on the brink of potentially momentous change, historian and broadcaster Neil MacGregor embarks on a worldwide voyage to discover how Britain is perceived from... Read more
Aces Falling
By: Peter Hart
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front
At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control of the air. Some were little more than boys when... Read more
Notre-Dame
By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
«La imagen de Notre-Dame en llamas me dejó aturdido y profundamente afectado. Me encontraba al borde de las lágrimas. Algo de un valor incalculable estaba muriendo ante nuestros ojos. Era una sensación desconcertante, como si la tierra hubiera comenzado a temblar.»
Ken Follett En este breve pero fascinante libro, Ken Follett describe las... Read more
Die alten ägyptischen Wurzeln des Christentums
By: Moustafa Gadallla
Narrated by: Erika Bálint
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
…..Dieses Buch wird beweisen, dass der historische Jesus und der Jesus des Glaubens sowie die Grundzüge des Christentums alle ihren Ursprung im Alten Ägypten haben. Und dies wird aufgezeigt werden ohne "irreparablen Schaden" zu verursachen, wie A.N. Wilson befürchtet, und zwar aus zwei Gründen: Zuerst einmal muss die Wahrheit erzählt werden. Und... Read more
View audiobookNapoleon’s Grande Armée: The History and Legacy of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Nearly 50 years after Napoleon met his Waterloo, generals across the West continued to study his tactics and engage their armies the same way armies fought during the Napoleonic Era. Despite advances in military technology and the advent of railroads for transportation, all of which made defensive warfare more effective, acclaimed military... Read more
View audiobookThe Accursed Tower
By: Roger Crowley
Narrated by: Matt Kugler
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army
The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the beleaguered citadel surrendered to the Mamluks,... Read more
Someone Is Out to Get Us
By: Brian Brown
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.
In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States fought an enemy of its own making for over forty... Read more
All Blood Runs Red
By: Tom Clavin & Phil Keith
Narrated by: James Shippy
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer
Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at... Read more
Why Bowie Matters
By: Will Brooker
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the... Read more
View audiobookThe Winter Army
By: Maurice Isserman
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION'S ULLR AWARD, the epic story of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory.
At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry... Read more
The Movie Musical!
By: Jeanine Basinger
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 24 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals--an essential audiobook for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.
Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood... Read more
The History of Philosophy
By: A. C. Grayling
Narrated by: Neil Gardner
Length: 28 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“A witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought.” —The New York Times Book Review
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world’s most eminent thinkers
The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents.... Read more
The City Game
By: Matthew Goodman
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall
“A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS... Read more
Why Crime Does Not Pay
By: Sophie Lyons
Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Sophie Lyons was a “thief from the cradle,” as one chief of police said; at the early age of six she had already been trained by her stepmother to be a pickpocket and a shoplifter. A beautiful child with engaging manners, she was sent out every day into the stores and among the crowds of shoppers, and was soundly whipped if she came out of a... Read more
View audiobookThe Russian Job
By: Douglas Smith
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster.
After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas... Read more
Games of Deception
By: Andrew Maraniss
Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
*"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner." --School Library Connection (starred review)
"An insightful, gripping account of basketball and bias." --Kirkus Reviews
From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong... Read more
Mudlark
By: Lara Maiklem
Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames' muddy shores,... Read more
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