History audiobooks

La silla embrujada

By: Alejandro Rosas & Carlos Silva

Narrated by: Carlos Rivapalacio & Erick Trujillo

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

«La silla presidencial está embrujada. Cualquier persona buena que se siente en ella se convierte en mala.» -Emiliano Zapata En 2024 México cumple 200 años de haber adoptado la república como forma de gobierno. Y a pesar de intentar resolver —durante dos siglos— la sucesión presidencial a través del voto libre, la democracia ha resultado un... Read more

Woke: The Journey of a Word

By: Matthew Syed

Narrated by: Matthew Syed

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Syed traces the origins and evolution of the word 'woke’

Once a watchword for African Americans in the early 1900s, 'woke' is now used as an insult across the political spectrum, and it has become synonymous with our era of angry debate. As the word has spread, what people mean by it has become less clear than ever. Award-winning... Read more

The Military Effect

By: Scott Manthorne

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Military Effect shares authentic stories of fifty amazing veterans, each providing unique insight into the challenges of transition and business success after service to our country. Read more

Rooman tuhatvuotinen valtakunta

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Tuhatvuotisen valtakunnan loisto ja tuho. Roomalaisten omien uskomusten mukaan Rooman kaupunki perustettiin vuonna 753 eaa. Kaupunki kasvoi yhdeksi historian suurimmista imperiumeista, jonka ylivoimainen sotamahti, arkitehtuurilliset saavutukset, rikkaudet ja lopullinen tuho kiehtovat yhä edelleen. Lähde mukaan matkaan Rooman valtakuntaan... Read more

The Forever War

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Forever War written and read by Nick Bryant.

‘This is a must read book for all those who love America and want it to be healed.’ — Justin Webb, presenter of the BBC’s Today programme and Americast

‘Unflinching and insightful.’ — Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent

‘A perceptive look at America’s... Read more

Rumunia. Albastru, ciorba i wino

By: Agnieszka Krawczyk

Narrated by: Aida Boral

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Czy to prawda, że w Rumunii kradło się panny młode? Który światowej sławy projektant mody przywłaszczył sobie narodowy skarb, czyli rumuńską bluzkę? Kto wpadł na pomysł, by błękitem ożywić… nagrobki na Wesołym Cmentarzu? Rumunia kojarzy nam się głównie z Drakulą, który nie pijał wina – a szkoda, bo ten kraj słynie z wybornych czerwonych... Read more

Rubicon

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Tom Holland

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight'

'I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not just for reminding me of the great figures who bestrode the Roman world - Pompey and Crassus, Cato, Cicero and Caesar - but for explaining what it was that made Rome... Read more

Worrell

By: Simon Lister

Narrated by: Mendez

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

'The definitive telling of the life of a West Indian hero'
Sir Clive Lloyd 

The brilliant all-rounder Frank Worrell had to wait until 1960 to become the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies cricket team, denied for a decade by the elitism, insularity and racism of Caribbean cricket’s rulers. When his chance finally came, Worrell... Read more

Borderlines

By: Lewis Baston

Narrated by: Richard Attlee

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT

'A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history.' KATJA HOYER

The history of Europe told through twenty-nine... Read more

Murhat Pohjolassa

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hyytäviä tositarinoita karusta Pohjolasta. 15-vuotias poika kuolee, nuoren naisen mieli järkkyy ilkeiden juorujen verkossa, oslolainen romukauppias löytyy murhattuna, taparikollinen suunnittelee suurta keikkaa... Pohjoismaiden rikoshistoriasta löytyy tapauksia, jotka voisivat olla suoraan rikoskirjailijoiden kynästä. Mutta nämä tarinat ovat... Read more

Catherine de' Medici

By: Mary Hollingsworth

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge & Sophie Hunter

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable – and remarkably traduced – woman.

History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici,... Read more

Take My Grief Away

By: Katerina Gordeeva

Narrated by: Sasha Alexis, Kristin Atherton & Chris Thompson

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being.

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled... Read more

Narcoball

By: David Arrowsmith

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.

Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition. It uncovers a football empire backed by cartels - where victory was a currency of its own, and defeat, a matter of life and death.

This... Read more

On the Shadow Tracks

By: Clare Hammond

Narrated by: Clare Hammond

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Jacob Abbott

Narrated by: Lizzie Driver

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

ALEXANDER III., known as The Great (356–323 B.C.), king of Macedon, was the son of Philip II. of Macedon, and Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent for practical genius, his mother a woman of half-wild blood, weird, visionary and terrible; and Alexander himself is singular among men of action for the imaginative splendours... Read more

Katarina Witt: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Katarina Witt, deutscher Eislaufstar: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Berlin 1936

By: Oliver Hilmes

Narrated by: Karsten Kramer

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Diktatur im Pausenmodus: Stadt und Spiele im Sommer 1936 Im Sommer 1936 steht Berlin ganz im Zeichen der Olympischen Spiele. Zehntausende strömen in die deutsche Hauptstadt, die die Nationalsozialisten in diesen sechzehn Tagen als weltoffene Metropole präsentieren wollen. Oliver Hilmes folgt prominenten und völlig unbekannten Personen,... Read more

Sapiens - Abridged

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Malcolm Perez

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Este es un resúmen de la obra original, por Stream Readers.Sapiens es una exploración de la historia humana y cómo los seres humanos hemos llegado a ser lo que somos hoy en día. Comienza con la aparición de los primeros humanos en la Tierra y sigue la evolución de la especie a lo largo de la historia. Además, el libro también aborda cómo las... Read more

Triumph of the Yuppies

By: Tom McGrath

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the... Read more

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

By: Julie Satow

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Amazon Best Book of 2024 • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. • "Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the... Read more

In the Shadows

By: Mickey Bergman & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen & Mickey Bergman

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.

Who else are their desperate loved ones supposed to call? Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for... Read more

The Wrong Stuff

By: John Strausbaugh

Narrated by: LJ Ganser

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.

In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of... Read more

The Fall of Roe

By: Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer

Narrated by: Lipica Shah

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most important book in the lead up to this election.” —Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC

“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.” —New York magazine

“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.” —Alex Wagner on Alex Wagner Tonight

This program... Read more

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Martin Luther King, Bernice A. King & Blair Und...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingCelebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollinsOn August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before... Read more