History audiobooks

Once Upon a Time

By: Elizabeth Beller

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER

This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling author) reexamines her life and legacy as never before. Perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale... Read more

Brotherhood of the Bomb

By: Gregg Herken

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time



The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward... Read more

A Gentleman from Japan

By: Thomas Lockley

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.

On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Christopher’s epic sea voyage had spanned from Japan,... Read more

The Eagle in the Mirror

By: Jesse Fink

Narrated by: Jerome Pride

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central... Read more

Race, Rights, and Rifles

By: Alexandra Filindra

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.



One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million people—own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in... Read more

The Red Hotel

By: Alan Philps

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most... Read more

A Little History of Psychology

By: Nicky Hayes

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature



What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behavior, feelings, and thoughts. But how... Read more

La carabela San Lesmes

By: Luis Gorrochategui

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La gran historia española en el Pacífico a través de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano. En el año 1525 siete naves de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano zarpan desde La Coruña con la intención de comenzar la anhelada ruta de las especias, descubierta en la primera circunnavegación al planeta, pero en esa titánica misión una de las naves, la carabela San... Read more

Von Golda Meir bis Michail Gorbatschow

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 52 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: Golda Meir, Willy Brandt, Menachem Begin, Anwar As-Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kemal Atatürk, Lech Walesa, Michail Gorbatschow. Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Nat Segaloff

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Brian DePalma's operatically violent and profane Scarface debuted in 1983, the film drew almost as much fire as the relentless gunfire in the film itself. The movie was a remake of 1932's Scarface—revamped for a new era of drugs, sex, and graphic violence. Attacked as both a celebration of cocaine-fueled excess and a condemnation of it, the... Read more

El orbe a sus pies

By: Pedro Insua

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Una obra que reivindica la plena españolidad de la gesta que revolucionó el mundo conocido y cuyo quinto centenario se celebra este 2022.   A Magallanes se debe el logro de hallar el «paso» estrecho que une el Atlántico y el Pacífico, con lo que sorteó el muro que el continente americano representaba para la navegación. Pero quien realmente dio... Read more

La última voz

By: José Ignacio Latorre Sentís & Maite Soto Sanfiel

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

El testimonio del último testigo del Proyecto Manhattan, el plan secreto que inauguró la era atómica y la Guerra Fría. En 1943 Roy J. Glauber tenía 18 años. Estudiaba simultáneamente la carrera de Física y cursos de doctorado en Harvard. Un día, un emisario del gobierno pidió entrevistarlo. Poco después, siguiendo escuetas instrucciones, Roy... Read more

Paradise of the Damned

By: Keith Thomson

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasure, all in a “breezy tale starring an audacious hero" (Wall Street Journal)

As early as... Read more

Cartas a Lucilio

By: Séneca

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Este es uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Los sabios consejos dirigidos a su discípulo Lucilio tienen una validez que traspasa las fronteras del tiempo. Séneca nos habla sobre la conveniencia de una relación de equilibrio con la naturaleza, sobre la importancia de las cosas que hacemos a... Read more

Joseph Beuys: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Beuys, German artist legend and political activist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Little Avalanches

By: Becky Ellis

Narrated by: Sara Van Beckum & Steve Menasche

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night... Read more

British Food

By: Colin Spencer

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful and witty account of Britain's culinary heritage.



This a revised and updated edition of an award-winning book, recognized as the authoritative work on the subject of British food. It is a breathtaking attempt to trace the changes to and influences on food in Britain from the Black Death, through the Enclosures, the Reformation, the... Read more

Beyond 1619

By: Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner & Jesse Cromwell

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.



In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow... Read more

Patton's Prayer

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War

General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing... Read more

La isla oculta

By: Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Narrated by: Ernesto Rumbaut & Javier Lacroix

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La isla oculta no es otro libro más sobre Cuba, un país que forma parte de nuestro imaginario colectivo desde su Revolución, sino una colección de crónicas que nos lleva a sus lugares menos conocidos con una mirada conmovedora, triste y a la vez pícara. Un puzle del último lustro de Cuba que muestra otra isla, acaso subterránea.
Jiménez Enoa... Read more

Who Owns This Sentence?

By: David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

Narrated by: David Bellos

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon... Read more

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Duquette

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical... Read more

Rey servido y patria honrada

By: Fernando Alejandre Martínez

Narrated by: Simon Gómez

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Una mirada personal y lúcida sobre las Fuerzas Armadas, la España democrática y sus amenazas  Las Fuerzas Armadas españolas son una de las instituciones que han de velar por la seguridad de la sociedad y proteger  su integridad ante cualquier tipo de amenazas. La de las Fuerzas Armadas es una contribución crucial para la pervivencia de España y... Read more

Combee

By: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 25 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants



Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863,... Read more