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History's Greatest Speeches - The Complete Collection
By: Jesus Christ, Frederick Douglass, Eleanor Roose...
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history. From ancient times to the American Revolution, from the days before slaves had been emancipated (or women had the vote) to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has... Read more
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Cave Paintings: The History and Legacy of Prehistoric Man-made Art
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Cave painting falls under the heading of “parietal art,” a term used to note any prehistoric art found on the walls or ceilings of caves. It includes five basic types of work, from stencils of handprints, and other hand and finer marks, to a number of abstract signs and symbols, figurative painting, engraving and relief sculpture. It also... Read more
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American Utopias: The History of Famous Attempts to Establish Utopian Societies in the United States
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Jim Johnston
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 19th century, the young United States was exposed to the profound changes that historians call the Market Revolution. Cities experienced drastic changes as manufacturing and trade created jobs that hungry job seekers from the countryside migrated towards, but the hype triumphed over the realities, and more unemployed recent migrants... Read more
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The Maya Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of Maya History, Starting From the Olmecs’ Domination of Ancient Mexico to the Arrival of Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Conquest
By: Enthralling History
Narrated by: Jay Herbert
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Are the Mayans still around?What is the importance of Chichen Itza’s discovery?How did this mighty civilization fall?If you want answers to these intriguing questions, then pay attention…The Mayans created an amazing society, full of surprises that keep us guessing how these people came to be and why – exactly – their civilization fell. Theories... Read more
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Native American Games: The History and Legacy of the Different Sports Played by Indigenous Groups across the Americas
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Athletics in Central and North American societies go much further back than most people realize. The native peoples took their sports just as seriously as any of today’s most fervent soccer fans. One major difference between modern sports and these aboriginal games is that the native people's sports often had strong religious content, and games... Read more
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The Kingdom of Judah: The History and Mystery of the Ancient Jewish Kingdom
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whose descendants would later form Israel identified themselves by their particular tribe. If asked their nationality or country of origin, they would likely identify themselves as Danites (from the tribe of Dan; Ex. 31:6) or Ephraimites (from the tribe of... Read more
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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The History of the Longest Battle Fought in Germany during World War II
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
While the Battle of the Bulge is the most famous fighting in that theater after D-Day, the Battle of Hürtgen Forest cost American forces almost 60,000 battle casualties, and over 70,000 non-battle casualties from illness and accidents. Countless soldiers suffered from what was then known as “combat fatigue,” leaving them psychologically broken... Read more
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Damit die Kinder nicht vergessen (Ungekürzt)
By: Engelbert Sauter
Narrated by: Engelbert Sauter
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Als Vater hat Engelbert Sauter die Frage beschäftigt, wie er eigene Erfahrungen seinen Kindern wirksam weitergeben könne. Eines Tages kam die Tochter mit der Aufgabe aus der Schule, jemanden zu finden, der über Nachkriegserfahrungen berichten könne. Nachdem er selbst mehrere Stunden seiner Tochter erzählt hatte, kam die Idee, diese Erfahrungen... Read more
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The White Indian Boy
By: Elijah Nicholas Wilson & Howard R. Driggs
Narrated by: Jonathan Best & Bryson Walker
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
You are about to go back in time to the Wild West of the 1800s.These true, real-life adventures were told first hand by Elijah Nicholas Wilson.He was a cavalry spy, hired to track down bands of murdering bands of Indians.Before that he was a stagecoach driver on roads filled with outlaws.Before that he was one of the first Pony Express riders... Read more
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Prevail until the Bitter End
By: Alexandra Lohse
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented convergence of military, economic, social, and political crises.
Lohse uncovers how... Read more
Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 3 - A Era da Reforma - Abridged
By: Al Truesdale
Narrated by: Marcelo de Assis
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Em Heróis da Igreja - A Era da Reforma, abre-se uma janela para desbravar um período da Igreja marcado por sérias divisões, muitas das quais ainda permanecem. Neste volume foram reunidos escritos dos séculos 16 e 17, incluindo documentos da época da Reforma Protestante e da Reforma Católica, esta última comumente denominada Contrarreforma. A Era... Read more
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The Universe
By: Andrew Cohen
Narrated by: Brian Cox & Jot Davies
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now... Read more
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El arte de la guerra completo
By: Sun Tzu & Sun Pin
Narrated by: Hector Velasco
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Por mas de dos siglos, El arte de la guerra ha sido la guía mas completa de estrategia militar. Un clásico de la literatura china, se ha convertido en lectura esencial para quienes buscan el éxito, tanto en la vida personal como en los negocios.
“Uno de los rasgos más interesantes del texto de Sun Tzu es que no pareciera que fue compuesto como un... Read more
On The Ground
By: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley
Narrated by: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Audrey Gillan revisits her time on the ground with the British Army in Iraq, and the infamous friendly fire incident that killed Matty Hull
'A remarkable listen: detailed, unflinching and revealing about the ripple effects of a wholly avoidable tragedy'Financial Times
Award-winning journalist Audrey Gillan was embedded with British troops during... Read more
From the Ground Up
By: Edward Smithies
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN
'The horrors have not been suppressed. Everyone who speaks was very young then. You sense their wonder that they did the things they recall' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
When we remember the Second World War in the... Read more
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'.
On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox became embroiled in the infamous 'Gulf of Tonkin incident’ that lead directly to... Read more
The Holocaust
By: James Bulgin
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
During the Second World War, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population - six million people.
In some parts of Europe this represented the complete annihilation of entire households, families, and communities. Those that survived were forced to live their lives in the shadow of an incalculable loss. They,... Read more
A Said piaceva il mare
By: Roberto Parmeggiani
Narrated by: Riccardo Spagnulo
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Said guarda l'orizzonte e sogna. Andrea trova rifugio in un libro. Gabriele riceve un aiuto inaspettato. Rico fa i conti con la sua rabbia e la sua passione, il calcio. Maya cerca l'imperfezione nelle cose attraverso lo scatto della fotocamera. 5 adolescenti come tanti, 5 storie che li raccontano in questa raccolta INBook accessibile anche ai... Read more
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Stars and Spies
By: Christopher Andrew & Julius Green
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.
Throughout history, there has been a consistent crossover between show business and espionage, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and... Read more
Whatever Happened to Tradition?
By: Tim Stanley
Narrated by: Tim Stanley
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us.
The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition – political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The... Read more
Avhopparna
By: Jesper Clemmensen
Narrated by: Peter Melin
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Den 24 juli år 1960 hoppar plötsligt fem personer av den östtyska färjan Ahlbeck när den ligger i dansk hamn. De är tre vuxna, och två barn, som riskerar allt för att komma undan den kommunistiska diktaturen i Tjeckoslovakien. När de landar i vattnet blir de jagade av östtysk polis, men får hjälp av en modig dansk medborgare. De ska komma att... Read more
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Back of the Hiring Line
By: Roy Beck
Narrated by: Roy Beck
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
150 years after the end of slavery and nearly 60 years after passage of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, average Black household wealth in the 21st century remains a fraction of the median assets of other racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations.There are many reasons, but this book is about one: two centuries of governmental encouragement... Read more
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In the Camps
By: Darren Byler
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history
Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps... Read more
Roadmap to a Brighter Future
By: Paul A. Laudicina
Narrated by: Paul A. Laudicina
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The future doesn't just happen. It's a choice that we can and must help determine. But as our deeply divided nation reels from converging crises and seemingly intractable discord, where do we begin when the stakes are unfathomably high?
With multiple possible futures before us, Americans need to understand the specific consequences of our... Read more