History audiobooks

The Cleopatras

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt  

One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name.   
   
In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd... Read more

My Brother's Keeper

By: Ari Harow

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

My Brother's Keeper tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American president and the Israeli prime minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region.



Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the world—and especially the Middle East—differently. The US president wanted to end what he saw as America's perpetual war against... Read more

Key Changes

By: Howie Singer & Bill Rosenblatt

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet and Napster came along and disrupted it. Key Changes shows that this view is incorrect: the industry was actually shaken up not once in the 1990s, but ten times over more than 100 years. These ten disruptions... Read more

The Liberation Line

By: Christian Wolmar

Narrated by: Christian Wolmar

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation 
  They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers,... Read more

Toinen maailmansota – Tapahtumat ja ihmiset

By: Orage

Narrated by: Tapio Rauvala

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Toisen maailmansota – Tapahtumat ja ihmiset" kertoo toisen maailmansodan merkittävistä taisteluista sekä natsien hirmuvallasta. Kiovan taistelua syksyllä 1941 pidetään kaikkien aikojen suurimpana piiritystaisteluna, jossa Saksa ylsi suureen voittoon. Myös vuonna 1943 käyty Prohorovkan taistelu oli ainoa laatuaan – vastaavaa panssarivaunujen... Read more

Plastic Capitalism

By: Sean H. Vanatta

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.



America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after... Read more

A Rare Recording of Film Icon Vivien Leigh and Producer Samuel Goldwyn

By: Vivien Leigh & Samuel Goldwyn

Narrated by: Vivien Leigh & Samuel Goldwyn

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The following recording is a discussion between movie star Vivien Leigh, film producer Samuel Goldwyn and British Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967) was a British actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the... Read more

The End of the Roman Republic

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that “the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar”. Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the... Read more

Modern Germany: The History and Legacy of the German Nation from Unification to Reunification

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 30 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Germany and the German-speaking peoples is as complex and multifaceted as any in Europe. It is also one of the most difficult to pinpoint conceptually and historically, since every nation is a construct to some extent. Language is certainly important, and the German language is a unifying factor for any notion of a unified... Read more

La Ley

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“La gente no sólo quiere que la Ley sea justa; también quiere que sea filantrópica.” Frédéric BastiatOBRA FUNDAMENTAL DEL PENSAMIENTO ECONÓMICO Y POLÍTICO.Este clásico escrito por el economista y legislador francés Frédéric Bastiat, publicado en 1850, se centra en los principios del derecho y la economía, abogando por la justicia, la libertad y... Read more

Herman Lay: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Lay, Revolutionär der weltweiten Kartoffelchips-industrie: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Lucky Lindy and Lady Lindy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In many ways, Charles Lindbergh represented the best and worst of America during the first half of the 20th century. Lindbergh became famous for being an aviation pioneer whose solo flight across the Atlantic captured the imagination of an entire world, yet he was an isolationist who wanted to keep American freedoms safe for Americans and no... Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 25 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.... Read more

The Liberation of Western Europe in World War II: The History of the Western Allies’ Campaigns on the Continent

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

During World War II, the free world literally hung in the balance, with the Axis and Allies engaging in warfare on an unprecedented scale. Although Hitler’s Nazi Germany had overrun much of the European continent by 1940, the Allies began to reverse the momentum in 1942. By the end of 1943, with Allied forces firmly established in Italy and the... Read more

Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: The Lives of the Wild West’s Most Famous Lawmen

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the “Wild West”, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West continues to be... Read more

Presidential Assassinations: The History of the Killing of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Until April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors of his time, and President Abraham Lincoln had even watched him perform. But his most significant performance at a theater did not take place on the stage. That night, Booth became one of history’s most infamous assassins when he assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's... Read more

The Minoans and Mycenaeans: The History of the Civilizations that First Developed Ancient Greek Culture

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly 2,500 years after the Golden Age of Athens, people across the world today continue to be fascinated by the Ancient Greeks. But who did the Ancient Greeks look up to? The answer to that question can be found in Homer’s The Odyssey, in which Odysseus makes note of “a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned.” It was perhaps the... Read more

Real Pirates of the Caribbean

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Ross Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Age of Piracy generally refers to the era when history’s most famous pirates roamed the seas of the West Indies from 1670-1720, engaging in colorfully daring and oftentimes murderous attacks on any ship they felt emboldened enough to take on. And it is no coincidence that while the end of the Golden Age was marked by the death of... Read more

Von John Jacob Astor bis Bill Gates

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 50 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: John Jacob Astor, John Pemberton, Andrew Carnegie, August Oetker, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Herman Lay, Sam Walton, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates. Read more

The Julio-Claudian Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the First Family to Rule the Ancient Roman Empire

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The importance of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (or as he was known from birth, Gaius Octavius “Octavian” Thurinus) to the course of Western history is hard to overstate. His life, his rise to power, his political, and his social and military achievements all laid the foundations for the creation of an empire which would endure for almost five... Read more

Jackson Pollock: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jackson Pollock, American painter and inventor of "Action painting": Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Von Franz Beckenbauer bis LeBron James

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: TBA

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: Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Mark Spitz, Nadja Comaneci, Katarina Witt, Steffi Graf, Michael Schumacher, Lance Armstrong, Roger Federer, LeBron James. Read more

Howard Hughes: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Hughes, Flugzeugpionier, Filmproduzent und Eremit: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Relax, Get Inspired: On the Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Thierry Baudez

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to our reading of "The Art of War," a timeless treatise on strategy, warfare, and leadership written by the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. Composed over 2,500 years ago, this profound work remains as relevant today as it was in the era of chariots and sword battles.
"The Art of War" is not merely a book about conflict; it is... Read more