History audiobooks

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

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

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

La isla oculta

By: Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Narrated by: Ernesto Rumbaut & Javier Lacroix

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La isla oculta no es otro libro más sobre Cuba, un país que forma parte de nuestro imaginario colectivo desde su Revolución, sino una colección de crónicas que nos lleva a sus lugares menos conocidos con una mirada conmovedora, triste y a la vez pícara. Un puzle del último lustro de Cuba que muestra otra isla, acaso subterránea.
Jiménez Enoa... 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

La última voz

By: José Ignacio Latorre Sentís & Maite Soto Sanfiel

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

El testimonio del último testigo del Proyecto Manhattan, el plan secreto que inauguró la era atómica y la Guerra Fría. En 1943 Roy J. Glauber tenía 18 años. Estudiaba simultáneamente la carrera de Física y cursos de doctorado en Harvard. Un día, un emisario del gobierno pidió entrevistarlo. Poco después, siguiendo escuetas instrucciones, Roy... Read more

El orbe a sus pies

By: Pedro Insua

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Una obra que reivindica la plena españolidad de la gesta que revolucionó el mundo conocido y cuyo quinto centenario se celebra este 2022.   A Magallanes se debe el logro de hallar el «paso» estrecho que une el Atlántico y el Pacífico, con lo que sorteó el muro que el continente americano representaba para la navegación. Pero quien realmente dio... Read more

Von Golda Meir bis Michail Gorbatschow

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Golda Meir, Willy Brandt, Menachem Begin, Anwar As-Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kemal Atatürk, Lech Walesa, Michail Gorbatschow. Read more

Plastic Capitalism

By: Sean H. Vanatta

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.



America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after... Read more

Paradise of the Damned

By: Keith Thomson

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasure, all in a “breezy tale starring an audacious hero" (Wall Street Journal)

As early as... 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

Key Changes

By: Howie Singer & Bill Rosenblatt

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet and Napster came along and disrupted it. Key Changes shows that this view is incorrect: the industry was actually shaken up not once in the 1990s, but ten times over more than 100 years. These ten disruptions... Read more

Race, Rights, and Rifles

By: Alexandra Filindra

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.



One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million people—own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in... Read more

Rey servido y patria honrada

By: Fernando Alejandre Martínez

Narrated by: Simon Gómez

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Una mirada personal y lúcida sobre las Fuerzas Armadas, la España democrática y sus amenazas  Las Fuerzas Armadas españolas son una de las instituciones que han de velar por la seguridad de la sociedad y proteger  su integridad ante cualquier tipo de amenazas. La de las Fuerzas Armadas es una contribución crucial para la pervivencia de España y... Read more

La carabela San Lesmes

By: Luis Gorrochategui

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La gran historia española en el Pacífico a través de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano. En el año 1525 siete naves de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano zarpan desde La Coruña con la intención de comenzar la anhelada ruta de las especias, descubierta en la primera circunnavegación al planeta, pero en esa titánica misión una de las naves, la carabela San... Read more

Lucky Lindy and Lady Lindy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In many ways, Charles Lindbergh represented the best and worst of America during the first half of the 20th century. Lindbergh became famous for being an aviation pioneer whose solo flight across the Atlantic captured the imagination of an entire world, yet he was an isolationist who wanted to keep American freedoms safe for Americans and no... Read more

La Ley

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“La gente no sólo quiere que la Ley sea justa; también quiere que sea filantrópica.” Frédéric BastiatOBRA FUNDAMENTAL DEL PENSAMIENTO ECONÓMICO Y POLÍTICO.Este clásico escrito por el economista y legislador francés Frédéric Bastiat, publicado en 1850, se centra en los principios del derecho y la economía, abogando por la justicia, la libertad y... Read more

Herman Lay: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Lay, Revolutionär der weltweiten Kartoffelchips-industrie: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 25 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.... Read more

The End of the Roman Republic

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that “the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar”. Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the... Read more

A Rare Recording of Film Icon Vivien Leigh and Producer Samuel Goldwyn

By: Vivien Leigh & Samuel Goldwyn

Narrated by: Vivien Leigh & Samuel Goldwyn

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The following recording is a discussion between movie star Vivien Leigh, film producer Samuel Goldwyn and British Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967) was a British actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the... Read more

Modern Germany: The History and Legacy of the German Nation from Unification to Reunification

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 30 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Germany and the German-speaking peoples is as complex and multifaceted as any in Europe. It is also one of the most difficult to pinpoint conceptually and historically, since every nation is a construct to some extent. Language is certainly important, and the German language is a unifying factor for any notion of a unified... Read more