History audiobooks

Roy Lichtenstein: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and pop art icon: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Hercules

By: Scott Bateman

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules jet, told through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman


Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government... Read more

Made in Manchester

By: Brian Groom

Narrated by: David Judge

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of... Read more

Rivals in the Storm

By: Damian Collins

Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Rivals in the Storm by Damian Collins, read by Dyfrig Morris.

A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world’s greatest statesmen.

Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through... Read more

Les chemins de l'aube

By: Sylvain Vergara

Narrated by: Sarah Duquenoy

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

En 1985, Elie Wiesel écrivait à Sylvain Vergara : « J’ai lu votre manuscrit, je le trouve bouleversant, vibrant de vérité – il faut le publier. » 37 ans plus tard (et 30 ans après la mort de Sylvain Vergara), ce texte est retrouvé et enfin publié. Seul un extrait en avait paru en 1964 dans la revue Esprit. Arrêté en octobre 1943 comme... Read more

The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues (Unabridged)

By: Henry Jones Ford

Narrated by: Denis Edwards

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the annals of American history, few figures loom larger than George Washington. As the first President of the United States, he played a pivotal role in shaping the nation's destiny. But Washington did not act alone. He was surrounded by a group of brilliant and dedicated colleagues who shared his vision for a new nation. In "The Chronicles... Read more

The Clovis Culture: The History and Legacy of the Prehistoric Paleoamericans

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In popular media and culture, the Paleolithic era is often depicted as a time when humans were completely savage, spoke with little more than grunts, hit women over their heads with clubs and kidnapped them, and of course, everyone lived in caves. The reality is that the Paleolithic era was a time of great change when humans coalesced into... Read more

The History of England

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit... Read more

Famous Landmarks of Ancient Rome

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Colosseum was built in the late 1st century A.D., the Romans, who were known for their architectural acumen, managed to amaze themselves. Martial, a Roman poet writing during the inauguration of the Colosseum, clearly believed the Colosseum was so grand a monument that it was even greater than the other Wonders of the Ancient World,... Read more

The Catholic Church’s Most Influential Religious Military Orders: The Controversial and Mysterious History of the Knights Templar, the Teutonic Knights, and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land. In the heart of Jerusalem sat one of the shining jewels of the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Legend has it that this was where their Savior had... Read more

The Most Famous Women of the Wild West

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous woman of the Wild West was also possibly the most colorful and mysterious. “Considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age”, Calamity Jane claimed to be a veteran of the Indian Wars, a scout, and the wife of Wild Bill Hickok, all on the way to becoming a dime novel heroine. While all of those legends... Read more

Making Sense of the World

By: Vern S. Poythress

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In searching for beauty's source, we encounter ultimate reality. In this new contribution to worldview thinking, Poythress shows how all creation reflects the Trinitarian God—and where philosophers go wrong. Read more

Sam Walton: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sam Walton, legendärer Gründer von WalMart: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

The Story of Philosophy. Plato

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Story of Philosophy: Plato" by Will Durant is a captivating exploration of the life and philosophical ideas of the ancient Greek thinker, Plato. In this edition, Durant brings Plato's philosophy to life with vivid imagery that enhances the reader's understanding and engagement. Durant provides readers with a comprehensive overview of... Read more

A History of Some of London’s Most Famous Landmarks

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It almost goes without saying that Westminster Abbey is one of the foremost sites in Europe when it comes to being steeped in history. Dating back to the reign of William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest, Westminster Abbey has traditionally been the site of royal coronations, royal weddings, and royal burials, and anyone who enters can... Read more

Cartas a Lucilio

By: Séneca

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Este es uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Los sabios consejos dirigidos a su discípulo Lucilio tienen una validez que traspasa las fronteras del tiempo. Séneca nos habla sobre la conveniencia de una relación de equilibrio con la naturaleza, sobre la importancia de las cosas que hacemos a... Read more

The Red Hotel

By: Alan Philps

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most... Read more

Beyond 1619

By: Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner & Jesse Cromwell

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.



In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow... Read more

Who Owns This Sentence?

By: David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

Narrated by: David Bellos

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon... Read more

British Food

By: Colin Spencer

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful and witty account of Britain's culinary heritage.



This a revised and updated edition of an award-winning book, recognized as the authoritative work on the subject of British food. It is a breathtaking attempt to trace the changes to and influences on food in Britain from the Black Death, through the Enclosures, the Reformation, the... Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Nat Segaloff

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Brian DePalma's operatically violent and profane Scarface debuted in 1983, the film drew almost as much fire as the relentless gunfire in the film itself. The movie was a remake of 1932's Scarface—revamped for a new era of drugs, sex, and graphic violence. Attacked as both a celebration of cocaine-fueled excess and a condemnation of it, the... Read more

A Little History of Psychology

By: Nicky Hayes

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature



What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behavior, feelings, and thoughts. But how... Read more

A Gentleman from Japan

By: Thomas Lockley

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.

On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Christopher’s epic sea voyage had spanned from Japan,... Read more

The Liberation Line

By: Christian Wolmar

Narrated by: Christian Wolmar

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation 
  They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers,... Read more