History audiobooks

Enemies at the Gate

By: Patricia Southern

Narrated by: Rupert Bush

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753BC accords very well with the earliest defensive walls on the Palatine Hill, made of clay and timber and showing evidence of animal sacrifices. To trace the continual efforts to fortify Rome is to trace the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - through the taking of the city by the Gauls in... Read more

Spirits Of The Baltic

By: Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the enchanting world of Baltic mythology with Spirits of the Baltic audiobook - Inspired by the ancient tales and seasonal festivals of the Baltic region, this audiobook brings to life the rich cultural heritage of a fascinating mythology. The idea for this audiobook was born from a deep fascination with the Baltic region's unique... Read more

Walt Disney: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Walt Disney, Erfinder von Mickey Mouse und Filmmogul: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Kingmakers

By: Timothy Venning

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary – nor more potentially disastrous – than on the Anglo-Welsh borders. The Marcher lords first empowered by William I were relied upon by subsequent Norman and Plantagenet kings to protect the dangerous frontiers of the realm.

In Wales, as in Ireland, the... Read more

Von Archimedes bis zu den Gebrüdern Wright

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 49 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: Archimedes, Johannes Gutenberg, Galileo Galilei, Dom Perignon, James Watt, Gebrüder Montgolfier, Werner von Siemens, Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Gebrüder Wright. Read more

Gustave Le Bon: Psychologie der Massen / The Crowd

By: Gustave le Bon

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gustave Le Bons Meisterwerk in zweisprachiger Ausgabe! Gustave Le Bon's masterpiece in a bilingual edition! Deutsch: Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon... Read more

Santiago Valiente

By: Santiago del Ama

Narrated by: Luis Carlos de La Lombana

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Santiago Valiente es la autobiografía de Santiago del Ama. Es la historia de un niño que quedó huérfano a la edad de 12 años en el Madrid de principios del siglo XX. Le tocó vivir una niñez de duro trabajo en la que, a pesar de tener que dejar el colegio para ir a trabajar, no descuida su formación, teniendo que trabajar de noche para pagarse... Read more

La mujer eunuco

By: Germaine Greer

Narrated by: Elsa Veiga

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Un best seller internacional y un referente irremisible de la historia del feminismo. Cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1970, La mujer eunuco supuso un punto de inflexión en la defensa de los derechos de la mujer. La tesis sobre la que se sustenta es que la familia nuclear, consumista y urbana reprime a la mujer sexualmente y esta acaba por... Read more

Ancient Greece for Beginners: The History of Ancient Greece From the Bronze Age to Hellenism and From Apol-lo to Zeus Told in an Exciting and Entertaining Way

By: Markus Dannen

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

When dark smoke rises from stone temples, the followers of the cult of Dionysus pour each other deep red wine, ancient philosophers passionately discuss in the Athenian agora, and cheering shouts of victory ring out from Olympia in the distance - then you, dear readers, are nowhere else than in the multifaceted world of Greek antiquity. We hear... Read more

La antigua Grecia para principiantes: La historia de la Antigua Grecia, desde la Edad de Bronce hasta el Helenismo y desde Apolo hasta Zeus, contada de forma emocionante y entretenida

By: Markus Dannen

Narrated by: José Félix Rivas

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando sale humo oscuro de los templos de piedra, los seguidores del culto a Dioniso se sirven vino tinto intenso, los antiguos filósofos discuten apasionadamente en el ágora ateniense y los gritos de victoria resuenan en Olimpia a lo lejos, entonces tú, querido lector, no te encuentras en ningún otro lugar que en el polifacético mundo de la... Read more

Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt)

By: Kirsty Loehr

Narrated by: Pan Selle

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war:... Read more

Developing to Scale

By: Heidi Morefield

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions.
 
In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream... Read more

William Turner: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

William Turner, English painter and inventor of the abstract: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

La Historia De Una Isla Caníbal Un Caso De La Vida Real

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sumérgete en las profundidades de lo desconocido con "La Historia de una Isla Caníbal: Un Caso de la Vida Real". En esta cautivadora narrativa, el lector es transportado a los confines de una isla remota, donde la civilización se desvanece y la oscuridad se cierne sobre la humanidad.A través de las páginas de este libro, se desentraña un relato... Read more

Autopsie des morts célèbres

By: Philippe Charlier & David Alliot

Narrated by: François Nuyttens

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Comment est morte Lucy ? Pourquoi et comment le corps de Saint Louis a été dispersé à travers le monde ? Que nous apprend l'étude du cerveau de Descartes? L'Histoire est pleine de mystères, c'est peut-être ce qui fait son charme et les résoudre est une aventure passionnante qui s'étend sur plusieurs siècles. N'étant plus une discipline... Read more

I’m in the Army Now - Abridged

By: Martin Whitacre

Narrated by: William Savage

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his... Read more

A Rare Recording of Film Icon Claudette Colbert

By: Claudette Colbert

Narrated by: Claudette Colbert

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudette Colbert, born Émilie Chauchoin in Saint-Mande, France, (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was a French and American actress who began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. With her Mid-Atlantic accent, witty dialogues, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for... Read more

Churchill's D-Day

By: General Sir Richard Dannatt & Allen Packwood

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Churchill's D-Day, Allen Packwood and Richard Dannatt narrate and analyze Sir Winston Churchill's emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, the book features historical documents, letters, and more, for a... Read more

The Situation Room

By: George Stephanopoulos

Narrated by: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim & Elisabeth ...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. 

No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room.... Read more

Gunflint Falling

By: Cary J. Griffith

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event.



The... Read more

The Struggle for Taiwan

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Narrated by: Austin Yang

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan

As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the... Read more

In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life

By: Soraya Roberts

Narrated by: Sharmila Devar

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her... Read more

Hollywood Pride

By: Alonso Duralde

Narrated by: Alonso Duralde

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but—make no mistake—they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays... Read more

The Infernal Machine

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Steven Johnson

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON

A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

LONGLISTED FOR THE... Read more