History audiobooks

Operation Typhoon

By: David Stahel

Narrated by: Philip Battley

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon—the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in... 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

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

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

August Oetker: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

August Oetker, deutscher Lebensmittelgigant: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! 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

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

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

The Gas and Flame Men

By: Jim Leeke

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gas and Flame Men is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Four players, two club executives, and a manager served in the small and hastily formed branch, six of them as gas officers. Remarkably, five of the seven—Christy Mathewson, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, George... 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

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

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

Breaking the Mold - Abridged

By: Rohit Lamba & Raghuram G. Rajan

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook narrated by Homer Todiwala charts the new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world's largest—while staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United... Read more

Hellenic History (Unabridged)

By: George Willis Botsford

Narrated by: Lisa Marron, Corazon Newport & Linda Riley

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the annals of history, the Hellenic civilization stands as a beacon of enlightenment, shaping the very fabric of Western thought and culture. "Hellenic History (Unabridged)" by George Willis Botsford invites you on an epic journey through the rise and fall of this extraordinary civilization. From the dawn of the Mycenaean era to the twilight... Read more

Caspar David Friedrich: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Caspar David Friedrich, German painting genius of the 18th century: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ron Welch

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the timeless wisdom of one of the most influential works of philosophy with "Plato's Republic" by Plato, now available as a captivating audiobook.In this groundbreaking dialogue, Plato takes listeners on a journey through the intricacies of justice, morality, and the ideal state. Through thought-provoking discussions and vivid... Read more

Andrew Carnegie: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Carnegie, amerikanischer Stahlbaron und Philanthrop: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Von Kaiser Augustus bis Königin Victoria

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: Kaiser Augustus, Dschinghis Khan, Jeanne d'Arc, Götz von Berlichingen, Königin Elisabeth I. von England, Maria Stuart, Zarin Katharina die Große, Otto von Bismarck, Königin Victoria von... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie III - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie II - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les Dictateurs - Partie I - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Francisco de Goya: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Francisco de Goya, Spanish painting genius of the 18th century: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

By: Karl Popper

Narrated by: David Pickering

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the “demarcation problem,” or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability – that scientific systems are ones open to... Read more