History audiobooks

La antigua Grecia para principiantes: La historia de la Antigua Grecia, desde la Edad de Bronce hasta el Helenismo y desde Apolo hasta Zeus, contada de forma emocionante y entretenida

By: Markus Dannen

Narrated by: José Félix Rivas

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando sale humo oscuro de los templos de piedra, los seguidores del culto a Dioniso se sirven vino tinto intenso, los antiguos filósofos discuten apasionadamente en el ágora ateniense y los gritos de victoria resuenan en Olimpia a lo lejos, entonces tú, querido lector, no te encuentras en ningún otro lugar que en el polifacético mundo de la... Read more

Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt)

By: Kirsty Loehr

Narrated by: Pan Selle

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war:... Read more

Autopsie des morts célèbres

By: Philippe Charlier & David Alliot

Narrated by: François Nuyttens

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Comment est morte Lucy ? Pourquoi et comment le corps de Saint Louis a été dispersé à travers le monde ? Que nous apprend l'étude du cerveau de Descartes? L'Histoire est pleine de mystères, c'est peut-être ce qui fait son charme et les résoudre est une aventure passionnante qui s'étend sur plusieurs siècles. N'étant plus une discipline... Read more

Developing to Scale

By: Heidi Morefield

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions.
 
In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream... Read more

I’m in the Army Now - Abridged

By: Martin Whitacre

Narrated by: William Savage

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his... Read more

Hollywood Pride

By: Alonso Duralde

Narrated by: Alonso Duralde

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but—make no mistake—they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays... Read more

The Situation Room

By: George Stephanopoulos

Narrated by: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim & Elisabeth ...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. 

No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room.... Read more

City of Light, City of Shadows

By: Mike Rapport

Narrated by: Paul Daintry

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French

From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for... Read more

Das antike Griechenland: Ein spannender Überblick über die griechische Geschichte, angefangen von der archaischen Periode über das klassische Zeitalter bis hin zur hellenistischen Zivilisation

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Marko Kraft

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Möchten Sie die spannende und beeindruckende Geschichte des antiken Griechenlands kennenlernen? In diesem Buch werden die brillanten Menschen, die erstaunlichen Kriege und das bezaubernde Erbe der alten Griechen von der archaischen bis zur hellenistischen Epoche vorgestellt.Die Geschichte des antiken Griechenlands zu entdecken, ist spektakulär... Read more

In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life

By: Soraya Roberts

Narrated by: Sharmila Devar

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her... Read more

Fat Leonard

By: Craig Whitlock

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation’s security.

All the... Read more

On Antisemitism

By: Jewish Voice for Peace

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight... Read more

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island

By: John R Bruning

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces.

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at... Read more

Von Marlene Dietrich bis Romy Schneider

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Lea Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer

Length: 53 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: Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Heidi Kabel, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Romy Schneider. Read more

The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion

By: Colin Spoelman

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This insider's guide to American distilleries offers colorful lore, regional history, and tasting notes for bourbon, whiskey, and rye.



The Bourbon Drinker's Companion is a narrative journey into the heart of American craft distilleries, taking listeners from the well-known Jim Beam Booker Noe plant to craft whiskey brewers on the West Coast to... Read more

Churchill's D-Day

By: General Sir Richard Dannatt & Allen Packwood

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Churchill's D-Day, Allen Packwood and Richard Dannatt narrate and analyze Sir Winston Churchill's emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, the book features historical documents, letters, and more, for a... Read more

Golf's Majors

By: Gary Player & Randy O. Williams

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From golf legend and nine-time major champion Gary Player, a riveting history of golf’s pinnacle events, packed with dramatic moments and insider storiesIn the game of golf, four tournaments stand alone: The Masters. The U.S. Open. The British Open. The PGA Championship. They boast histories that stretch back a century or more. Winning a major... Read more

A Rare Recording of Film Icon Claudette Colbert

By: Claudette Colbert

Narrated by: Claudette Colbert

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudette Colbert, born Émilie Chauchoin in Saint-Mande, France, (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was a French and American actress who began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. With her Mid-Atlantic accent, witty dialogues, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for... Read more

The Infernal Machine

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Steven Johnson

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON

A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

LONGLISTED FOR THE... Read more

Gunflint Falling

By: Cary J. Griffith

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event.



The... Read more

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

By: Frank Abe & Floyd Cheung

Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker

The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they... Read more

Skies of Thunder

By: Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice

“Riveting.” —The New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II

In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from... Read more

American Disgust

By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are... Read more

Wide Awake

By: Jon Grinspan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan, read by Sean Pratt.

“Excellent."—Wall Street Journal

A propulsive account of our history’s most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.

At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful... Read more