History audiobooks

Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard

By: Kevin YL Tan and Lam Peng Er (editors)

Narrated by: Chris Alexander

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Most books exploring the political and socioeconomic landscape of modern Singapore focus on the role played by longtime Prime Minister and now Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. But by Lee's own admission, Singapore would not be what it is without his gifted and capable team of loyal lieutenants. These talented men were brought together in the most... Read more

30 Minuten: Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Faust – Der Tragödie erster Teil"

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen... Read more

España partida en dos

By: Julián Casanova

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

La bibliografía reciente sobre la historia de la Guerra Civil española está integrada, sobre todo, por obras especializadas, destinadas a los investigadores. Faltan hoy síntesis accesibles que puedan cumplir la función que en su tiempo desempeñaron libros como los de Gabriel Jackson o Hugh Thomas, aproximando al lector medio el estado actual de... Read more

Del fascismo al populismo en la historia

By: Federico Finchelstein

Narrated by: Ezequiel Álvarez

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de fascismo y populismo? ¿Qué los asemeja y qué los diferencia? ¿Cuáles son sus conexiones en términos teóricos y cuáles en su decurso histórico? ¿Cómo y por qué el fascismo se transformó en el populismo en la historia?
Con una frecuencia inédita en los últimos setenta años, los términos fascismo y... Read more

White Pine

By: John Pastor

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and bridges. Yet this popularity came at a cost: by the end of the nineteenth century, clear cutting had decimated much of America's white pine forests. In White Pine, ecologist and writer John Pastor takes... Read more

Henry VIII's Narrow Escape

By: Steven Illingworth

Narrated by: Matthew Fuller

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

In 1536, King Henry VIII faced a major rebellion called The Pilgrimage of Grace, in opposition to the religious changes being imposed by the king and his ministers. The rebels, based mainly in the north of England, were particularly keen to defend the monasteries against the government’s attempt to close them down. This book tells the story of... Read more

Contra o militarismo - Abridged

By: Rui Barbosa

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A coletânea reúne artigos jornalísticos e discursos em que Rui Barbosa protesta contra a presença militar na política da Primeira República. "O título desta coletânea, Contra Militarismo, foi usado pelo próprio Rui como nome de livro publicado em 1910 contendo discursos proferidos em sua excursão eleitoral. Este livro não se trata, porém,... Read more

The Battle of Breitenfeld: The History and Legacy of the First Major Protestant Victory of the Thirty Years’ War

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Johnston

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most horrific conflicts in history, and though it is widely viewed as a religious struggle, that was only part of the complicated war. Calvinists and Lutherans did not get along, and both persecuted some of the more radical Anabaptist sects. At the same time, one major motivation behind the war was Holy... Read more

H. sapiens: The Last 12,000 Years

By: Fil Munas

Narrated by: Sean Doctor C Cordry

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin... Read more

Die schwärzesten Tage

By: Martina Schmid & K. H. Hartmann

Narrated by: Sonja Ströl

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieser Zeitzeugenbericht schildert die Strapazen und furchtbaren Entbehrungen meiner Mutter und ihrer Schwestern während ihrer Flucht im März 1945 von Kolberg/Westpommern, (heutiges Kolobrzeg, Polen) nach Bayern und die erste, ebenso entbehrungsreiche Zeit danach. Sie und ihre Schwestern haben das Überleben dieser schwärzesten Tage ihres Lebens... Read more

H. sapiens: The Last 12,000 Years

By: Fil Munas M.D.

Narrated by: Sean Cordry Ph.D.

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin... Read more

Myth America

By: Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer

Narrated by: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses & S...

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past 
 
The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible... Read more

The Social Climber

By: Amanda Pellegrino

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When you’re on top, you can get away with anything...

It’s the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza’s meticulous planning is about to pay off. She’s become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent, blue-blood Walker family – Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job, and a designer label wardrobe. 

But as the big day... Read more

Having Our Say

By: Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany & Amy Hill...

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side.Their sharp memories tell us about the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T.... Read more

Ohne Panzer ohne Straßen

By: Franz Taut

Narrated by: Klaus G. Förg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wachtmeister Hohberg, der im Frankreichfeldzug gekämpft hat, wird zum Leutnant befördert. Es geht in den Osten. Mit dem Angriff des Großdeutschen Reiches auf die Sowjetunion wird der deutsch-sowjetische Nichtangriffspakt gebrochen. Nach anfänglichen Erfolgen wird schnell klar, dass sich der Gegner nicht so einfach bezwingen lässt. Das unbekannte... Read more

Speed of Advance

By: Marty Groover

Narrated by: Andrew Morrison

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Speed of Advance (SOA): the speed of a ship anticipated along an intended track; the average speed required to arrive at a destination at a specified time.
In the navy, nothing is left to chance. Every strategy is tested, every resource utilized with minimal excess and remarkable efficiency. This streamlined convergence of people, process, and... Read more

The Battle of Lützen: The History and Legacy of Gustavus Adolphus’ Last Battle during the Thirty Years’ War

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most horrific conflicts in history, and though it is widely viewed as a religious struggle, that was only part of the complicated war. Calvinists and Lutherans did not get along, and both persecuted some of the more radical Anabaptist sects. At the same time, one major motivation behind the war was Holy... Read more

The Wandering Army

By: Huw J. Davies

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe



At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army's military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army's leadership was... Read more

Les Visionnaires

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

Narrated by: Sylvie Pardon

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

« Au bord du gouffre du 20e siècle, quatre icônes mondiales ont incarné de manière exemplaire et jusqu'à aujourd'hui ce que cela signifie de mener une vie véritablement libre ».Les années 1933 à 1943 marquent le chapitre le plus noir de la modernité européenne. Face à la catastrophe, quatre femmes philosophes, à l'orée de leur 30 ans, Simone de... Read more

Crónicas de la verdadera Conquista

By: Jorge Pedro Uribe Llamas

Narrated by: Jorge Pedro Uribe Llamas

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Através del relato histórico y un periodismo lírico que suele poner el acento en la gente, esta crónica mixtape, con visos de humor y melancolía, va y  viene por los hechos de la Conquista de Tenochtitlan y cuestiona en cada capítulo, implícita o explícitamente, las fronteras entre comunidades, ciudades y nacionalidades; entre pasado y... Read more

The Ottoman-Portuguese Conflicts: The History and Legacy of the Military Encounters Between the Ottoman Empire and Portugal in the Indian Ocean

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople played a decisive role in fostering the Renaissance in Western Europe. The Byzantine Empire’s influence had helped ensure that it was the custodian of various ancient texts, most notably from the ancient Greeks, and when Constantinople fell, Byzantine refugees flocked west to seek refuge in Europe. Those... Read more

Six Questions of Socrates

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates.

What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's... Read more

The Odd Fellows' Primer

By: Michael Greenzeiger

Narrated by: Toby Hanson

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Odd Fellows' Primer is a work cut from the same cloth as the great 19th century manuals written by luminaries such as Rev. Aaron Grosh and Paschal Donaldson, designed to give the initiate everything they need to practice and live Odd Fellowship in the lodge and beyond. This comprehensive work explores and explains concepts of fraternalism... Read more

Tomé de Sousa e a construção de Salvador - Abridged

By: Gabriel Soares de Sousa

Narrated by: Yuri Ribeiro

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nesta seleção de textos do livro "Tratado descritivo do Brasil", seu autor Gabriel Soares de Sousa narra a fundação da cidade de Salvador, destacando a razão principal da escolha da localidade – a segurança de seu porto – o perfil de seus primeiros governantes: Tomé de Sousa e Duarte da Costa. Read more