History audiobooks

Stories from Kathasaritasagara series - 13

By: Anusha HS

Narrated by: Anusha HS

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas... Read more

Ernest Rutherford: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist and pioneer of today's atomic model: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Becoming Kevin

By: Kevin Osterman

Narrated by: Kevin Osterman

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Osterman takes us through a fascinating journey from delinquency, his time as a Marine scout in Vietnam to learning leadership and ultimately becoming a peacemaker. Becoming Kevin – From Warrior to Peacemaker is a chronology that highlights specific pivotal events in the author's personal development, and which impacted the world around... Read more

Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Mariana de Iraola

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro reúne los ensayos más célebres de Susan Sontag, una obra imprescindible para el pensamiento contemporáneo. Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colección de ensayos, se convirtió rápidamente en un clásico contemporáneo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre el arte y la... Read more

The Book of Five Rings

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Book of Five Rings is a text on Kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. There have been various translations made over the years, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists and people across East Asia: For instance, some foreign business... Read more

Rudolf Steiner: Theosophie. Einführung in übersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Tim Eriksson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Als Rudolf Steiner im Jahre 1904 die Erstausgabe seines Werkes "Theosophie" präsentierte, war ihm wohl noch nicht klar, dass er ab 1913 diesen Begriff durch den noch heute gültigen Terminus der "Anthroposophie" ersetzen würde. In der Schrift "Theosophie", die eine äußerst erfolgreiche Publikation wurde, präsentierte er zum ersten Mal seinen... Read more

The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek

By: Nicola Pittam

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'A moving and uplifting story of one woman’s fight against the Nazis through her love of music. It will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading.' John Marrs, author of The One and The Marriage ActFormer Polish teenage piano prodigy Mosha Gebert is teaching when the Nazis come for her. They kill her student, but she is taken to Majdanek... Read more

Konrad Adenauer: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Konrad Adenauer, erster Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Mikhail Gorbachev: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian president and Nobel Peace prize laureate: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Stories from Kathasaritasagara series - 12

By: Anusha HS

Narrated by: Anusha HS

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas... Read more

No sé si me explico

By: Carlos Boyero

Narrated by: Juan Carlos Albarracín

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

El crítico más seguido y temido del cine español nos cuenta su vida sin tapujos. Carlos Boyero es una de las figuras más seguidas y temidas del cine español. La polémica le persigue desde que hace más de cincuenta años publicara su primer artículo y, desde entonces, nunca ha dejado de estar en el ojo del huracán. Boyero ha sido siempre ácido en... Read more

Otto Hahn: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Otto Hahn, deutscher Atomphysiker und Vater der Kernspaltung: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism

By: Katja Franko & David Goyes

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and suffered psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational media companies such as Netflix... Read more

An Emancipation of the Mind

By: Matthew Stewart

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.



In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist... Read more

A Company of Heroes

By: Marcus Brotherton

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

THE MUST-LISTEN BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION



Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!



After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war . . .



After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain, author... Read more

Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

By: Richard Rosenbaum

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon ― from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s, and up to the... Read more

A Short World History of Christianity, Revised Edition

By: Robert Bruce Mullin

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast, offers a panoramic picture of the history of... Read more

American Vikings

By: Martyn Whittock

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have... Read more

Lost Fatherland

By: Iryna Vushko

Narrated by: Angela Juarez

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe



This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic's first... Read more

Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks

By: Andy Burns

Narrated by: Marcus Zarco

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Damn good coffee, cherry pie, and the “big bang of auteur television” ― why Twin Peaks deserves to be a pop culture classic In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the... Read more

From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane

By: Peter Jackson

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire



By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian... Read more

Dusty Booze

By: Aaron Goldfarb

Narrated by: Dean Gallagher

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a... Read more

Putin's Wars and NATO's Flaws

By: Paul Moorcraft

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin's actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread?



The author, a highly respected journalist and political commentator, explains why Russia invaded a sovereign neighbor. To... Read more

Chasing Beauty

By: Natalie Dykstra

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its... Read more