History audiobooks

Murhat Pohjolassa

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hyytäviä tositarinoita karusta Pohjolasta. 15-vuotias poika kuolee, nuoren naisen mieli järkkyy ilkeiden juorujen verkossa, oslolainen romukauppias löytyy murhattuna, taparikollinen suunnittelee suurta keikkaa... Pohjoismaiden rikoshistoriasta löytyy tapauksia, jotka voisivat olla suoraan rikoskirjailijoiden kynästä. Mutta nämä tarinat ovat... Read more

The Military Effect

By: Scott Manthorne

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Military Effect shares authentic stories of fifty amazing veterans, each providing unique insight into the challenges of transition and business success after service to our country. Read more

On the Shadow Tracks

By: Clare Hammond

Narrated by: Clare Hammond

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence... Read more

Narcoball

By: David Arrowsmith

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.

Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition. It uncovers a football empire backed by cartels - where victory was a currency of its own, and defeat, a matter of life and death.

This... Read more

Catherine de' Medici

By: Mary Hollingsworth

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge & Sophie Hunter

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable – and remarkably traduced – woman.

History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici,... Read more

Katarina Witt: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Katarina Witt, deutscher Eislaufstar: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Berlin 1936

By: Oliver Hilmes

Narrated by: Karsten Kramer

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Diktatur im Pausenmodus: Stadt und Spiele im Sommer 1936 Im Sommer 1936 steht Berlin ganz im Zeichen der Olympischen Spiele. Zehntausende strömen in die deutsche Hauptstadt, die die Nationalsozialisten in diesen sechzehn Tagen als weltoffene Metropole präsentieren wollen. Oliver Hilmes folgt prominenten und völlig unbekannten Personen,... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Jacob Abbott

Narrated by: Lizzie Driver

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

ALEXANDER III., known as The Great (356–323 B.C.), king of Macedon, was the son of Philip II. of Macedon, and Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent for practical genius, his mother a woman of half-wild blood, weird, visionary and terrible; and Alexander himself is singular among men of action for the imaginative splendours... Read more

Sapiens - Abridged

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Malcolm Perez

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Este es un resúmen de la obra original, por Stream Readers.Sapiens es una exploración de la historia humana y cómo los seres humanos hemos llegado a ser lo que somos hoy en día. Comienza con la aparición de los primeros humanos en la Tierra y sigue la evolución de la especie a lo largo de la historia. Además, el libro también aborda cómo las... Read more

The Wrong Stuff

By: John Strausbaugh

Narrated by: LJ Ganser

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.

In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of... Read more

Willie, Waylon, and the Boys

By: Brian Fairbanks

Narrated by: Tyler Darby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell,... Read more

The War on Warriors

By: Pete Hegseth

Narrated by: Pete Hegseth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERReal men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our... Read more

The Roman Revolution

By: Nick Holmes

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome.... Read more

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

By: Julie Satow

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Amazon Best Book of 2024 • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. • "Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the... Read more

Von Erasmus von Rotterdam bis Jean Jacques Rousseau

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Erasmus von Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Baltasar Gracian, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Read more

I Don't Want to Go Home

By: Nick Corasaniti

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella & Jim Meskimen

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey—featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes, the Ramones, the Jonas Brothers, Jack Antonoff, and other legendary musicians.In 1970,... Read more

The Hidden History of the White House

By: Corey Mead

Narrated by: Lindsay Graham & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happenedFor more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic... Read more

The Explorers

By: Amanda Bellows

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.""Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written."" —David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

The Light of Battle

By: Michel Paradis

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.""This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."" —DAVID KENNEDY, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History |... Read more

Invisible Labor

By: Rachel Somerstein

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but “routine.” A series of errors by her clinicians led to... Read more

On the Ends of Good and Evil

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Robin Homer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Cicero sets out the three major Greek philosophies: Epicureanism, Stoicism and Aristotelianism (or Peripateticism), by recounting his conversations with Lucius Torquatus, Marcus Cato and Piso.
He then provides his commentary and criticisms of each.
The volume was written in the summer of the year 45 BC a few years before Cicero's assassination at... Read more

Triumph of the Yuppies

By: Tom McGrath

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the... Read more

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Martin Luther King, Bernice A. King & Blair Und...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingCelebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollinsOn August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before... Read more

This Was Toscanini

By: Samuel Antek & Lucy Antek Johnson

Narrated by: David Garrison & Lucy Antek Johnson

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio edition includes excerpts from NBC Symphony performances conducted by Maestro Toscanini! “Music lovers will find this book irresistible ... the writing is gorgeous, the characters are well-sculpted, the scenes are focused, and the author brings to life moments that music aficionados will savor for a long time. The book itself is a... Read more