History audiobooks

Giant Love

By: Julie Gilbert

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name,... Read more

A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi & Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region.Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various... Read more

Much Ado About Numbers

By: Rob Eastaway

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare's era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of "zero" to Galileo's redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare's plays—and his world—touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation, music, sports, and more.



● How reliable was a pocket sundial?



● Was... Read more

Ocean

By: John Haywood

Narrated by: Ben Eagle

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New... Read more

A Century of Tomorrows

By: Glenn Adamson

Narrated by: Glenn Adamson

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Century of Tomorrows written and read by Glenn Adamson

An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.

For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of... Read more

Ich trug den gelben Stern (Ungekürzt)

By: Inge Deutschkron

Narrated by: Chris Nonnast

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Dokument über Entrechtung, Verfolgung, Deportation und Tod, über Illegalität und Identitätsverlust und zugleich stiller menschlicher Hilfsbereitschaft. Viele Angehörige der älteren Generation erinnern sich noch daran, wie die Nazis ihre Kindheit missbrauchten, ohne dass sie dies damals erfassen konnten. Wie aber erlitten die Söhne und... Read more

Twelve Days on the Somme

By: Sidney Rogerson

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometres. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost. In this classic military memoir, Staff Sergeant Sidney Rogerson... Read more

Lily of the Valley

By: by Vilma Di Nardo

Narrated by: Lily Jane

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Deception is your greatest weapon.Germany, 1941.Now that the Nazis have taken over her homeland, Anna Goldberg, a seventeen-year-old Jew, is afraid to go anywhere and is effectively a prisoner in her own home. Anna and her father are dependent on the help of their loyal servant, Old Albert, who eschews Nazi ideology and continues his fight to... Read more

The Story of Philosophy Deluxe Edition with The Age of Faith The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers Includes Bonus Book - The Age of Faith: The Climax of Christianity 1095-1300, From the Crusades through Dante Will Durant, Ph.D.

By: Will Durant, Ph.D.

Narrated by: David Markus & Brian Conover

Length: 49 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophy has often seemed like the castor oil of the disciplines: healthy, but never pleasurable, and best when swallowed quickly and forgotten.

Although this view is understandable, it is regrettable. It isolates intelligent readers from some of the most important thought of Western civilization, much of which underlies our understanding of... Read more

The Age of Faith

By: Will Durant, PhD

Narrated by: Brian Conover

Length: 29 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot imagine anyone so erudite that they cannot learn a great deal from this monumental work.” —from the foreword by Richard Smoley

The great series The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is one of the most monumental achievements in historical writing. In its eleven massive volumes, it tells the story of Western civilization... Read more

La música que nos define

By: Sopitas

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

LA MÚSICA NO SE CREA NI SE DESTRUYE, SOLO SE TRANSFORMA Si tuvieras que explicarle a un alien qué diablos es la música, ¿cómo lo harías? Nada fácil, ¿cierto? Porque la música está presente en nuestra vida desde que nacemos, con las canciones que marcan nuestro primer amor y ruptura, hasta las que algunos eligen para partir. La música nos... Read more

El triunfo de la estupidez

By: Jano García

Narrated by: Carlos Valdés

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Un original ensayo político sobre cómo la mediocridad ha conquistado el poder, en el que Jano García desmonta con datos el relato establecido sobre la igualdad, la justicia social, la multiculturalidad o la solidaridad intergeneracional. Un audiolibro imprescindible que nos ofrece argumentos para contrarrestar la más dañina de las pandemias: la... Read more

The History of England Volume 4

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Volume 4, Hume closes his account of ‘England Under the House of Tudor' begun in Volume 3, and devotes it entirely to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It was not really expected that she would survive to accede to the monarchy; and it was certainly unexpected that she would rule for so long (1558-1603) while steadfastly declining to take a... Read more

Als Licht das Dunkel durchdrang

By: Ian Mortimer

Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir neigen dazu, das Mittelalter als eine dunkle, rückständige und konstante Zeit zu sehen, die von Gewalt, Unwissenheit und Aberglaube geprägt war. Im Gegensatz dazu glauben wir, dass Fortschritt auf Wissenschaft und technischer Innovation beruht und dass uns erst die Erfindungen der letzten Jahrhunderte in die Moderne geführt haben. Ian... Read more

El arte de vivir

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva traducción del manual de vida de Epicteto, un texto que destila los principios del estoicismo en consejos prácticos y directos para cultivar la resiliencia, la paz interna y la libertad personal. Epicteto, maestro de la Antigüedad y uno de los más grandes filósofos estoicos, promulgaba que la felicidad se logra al aceptar lo que no... Read more

La radio puesta

By: Javier Montes

Narrated by: Javier Montes

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

¿De verdad el vídeo mató a la estrella de la radio, como sentenciaba la canción de los Buggles? No, simplemente la desplazó a otro lugar. Este libro reivindica la radio como compañía, como inspiración, como ventana al mundo que combina lo íntimo y lo universal. La radio que ponemos cada mañana para aterrizar en la realidad mientras preparamos el... Read more

The Icon and the Idealist

By: Stephanie Gorton

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely... Read more

The Kremlin’s Noose

By: Amy Knight

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky. When Putin began dismantling Boris Yeltsin's democratic reforms, Berezovsky came into conflict with the new Russian leader by reproaching him publicly. Their relationship quickly disintegrated into a bitter feud played out against the... Read more

The Story of the Bee Gees

By: Bob Stanley

Narrated by: Paul Fox

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Story of the Bee Gees pulls together every fascinating strand to tell the story of a group with the imagination of the Beatles, the pop craft of ABBA, the drama of Fleetwood Mac, and the emotional heft of the Beach Boys. Uniquely, the Bee Gees's tale spans the entire modern pop era—they are the only group to have scored British top-ten... Read more

Dark Sun

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet... Read more

The Tin Ticket

By: Deborah J. Swiss

Narrated by: Corinne Davies

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The convict women who built a continent . . . "A moving and fascinating story." —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost



Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of... Read more

Mission to Mao

By: Sara B. Castro

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).



Mission to Mao is a social history... Read more

The Price They Paid

By: Jeff Forret

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of... Read more

The Chess Revolution

By: Peter Doggers

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s top chess journalists in the world explores why, after 1,500 years of existence, chess has never been more relevant than now. Chess is not just one of the greatest games ever devised. It has inspired writers, painters, and filmmakers, and is a secret mover behind technical revolutions like artificial intelligence that are... Read more