History audiobooks

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time

By: Tom Maxwell

Narrated by: Tom Maxwell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers
  North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early ‘90s brought the state most fully into the public... Read more

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

By: Andrea Warner

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of feminism, activism, and reproductive rights
When Dirty Dancing was released in 1987, it had already been rejected by producers and distributors several times over, and expectations for the summer romance were low. But then the film, written by former... Read more

God and the Devil

By: Peter Cowie

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the sixty-year film and stage career of Ingmar Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex, and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead.



Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused. Read more

The Battle for Moscow

By: David Stahel

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic... Read more

Stephen Hawking Genius at Work

By: Roger Highfield

Narrated by: Roger Highfield

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius, the things that inspired him and explanations of his seminal theories.

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers.

In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime... Read more

DK Life Stories: Helen Keller

By: Libby Romero

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Helen Keller, who overcame the odds by learning to understand and communicate with the world.

Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an early childhood illness and spent the first 6 years of her life unable to interact with other people. She remained isolated from the outside... Read more

Great Kingdoms of Africa

By: John Parker

Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.



This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery... Read more

Slouch

By: Beth Linker

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture"... Read more

Life, Earth, and Politics

By: Sherman Lewis

Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Science, not speculative philosophy, is the only guide, however imperfect, to the nature of existence. Science culture uses and supports science. The social brain experiences free will and needs religious faith. Empathy is a choice based on intuition. We need a better scientific understanding of dogma and chauvinism, and this book explores these... Read more

Mary Stuart: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth I of England's adversary and Queen of Scots: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Hitler's Furies

By: Wendy Lower

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war, as loyal wives and... Read more

Every Living Thing

By: Jason Roberts

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice).

“[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important,... Read more

Losing and Finding My Virginity: The Full Story

By: Richard Branson

Narrated by: Richard Branson

Length: 27 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This is the story of my entire life so far... It’s been a rollercoaster ride and I have no intention of getting off any time soon.

Available exclusively in audio, Losing and Finding My Virginity is both of Sir Richard Branson’s multi-million-copy bestselling autobiographies in one combined edition, fully revised and... Read more

Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Theo Solomon

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair.“This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNViktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in... Read more

The Stoic Mindset

By: Mark Tuitert

Narrated by: Mark Tuitert

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.

For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrepreneur, as... Read more

Gods, Heroes & Monsters

By: Mark Daniels

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the dawn of communication, humankind has looked around itself and used myths and legends to make sense of the world. Imaginative tales of goddesses, heroes, villains and beasts bring understanding to the biggest questions in life: Who made the world? What happens when we die? Where did we come from? How should we live our lives? Gods,... Read more

William Turner: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

William Turner, englischer Maler und Erfinder des Abstrakten: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

The Miracle Makers

By: Bharat Sundaresan & Gaurav Joshi

Narrated by: Richard Joel

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravi Shastri's prophetic words came true as India pulled off one of the greatest coups in cricketing history, beating Australia in Australia for the second time in three years, eventually breaching the Gabba fortress with what was eventually a skeleton team. Bharat was known as the 'Eyes and Ears of the Tour', being the only Indian-origin... Read more

Andra världskriget - händelser och personer

By: Orage

Narrated by: Håkan Mohede & Kim Rhedin Hüttner

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Andra världskriget - händelser och personer" är en samling berättelser om händelser och personer relaterade till andra världskrigets fruktansvärda skeende. Samlingen består av kortare artiklar och reportage, tidigare utgivna som enskilda titlar, och ger inblick i krigets mest omtalade företeelser och ögonblick. Vad var familjen Mitfords... Read more

Monkey to Man

By: Gowan Dawson

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the "march of progress," and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved



We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the... Read more

My Black Country

By: Alice Randall

Narrated by: Alice Randall

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.

Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history:... Read more

Collisions

By: Michael Kimmage

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war.



From the halls of power in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow to the battlefields of Ukraine, Kimmage chronicles Putin's... Read more

Atrocity on the Atlantic

By: Nate Hendley

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.



On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle—an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military—was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine.



Sinking hospital ships violated international... Read more

Revolusi

By: David Van Reybrouck

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

Length: 22 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.



Renowned scholar David Van Reybrouck captures a period of... Read more