History audiobooks

The Body's Keepers

By: Paul Kimmel

Narrated by: Lane Hakel

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The kidney is an extraordinary organ—in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body’s delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and to move in the world. And yet most of us know so very little about... Read more

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin D. Roosevelt, amerikanischer Präsident: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Sotto l'Antartide

By: Gianluca Lamberti & Umberto Visani

Narrated by: Federico Angelo Capra

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sotto l'Antartide" vuole essere un viaggio intrigante nel continente più remoto della Terra. Gli autori ci conducono attraverso secoli di esplorazioni, miti antichi e misteri, sollevando interrogativi sulla storia nascosta sotto le distese di ghiaccio. Il testo esamina le leggende di civiltà perdute, le missioni ufficiali e segrete naziste, le... Read more

India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework.

Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence ever written in the literary world. Written and... Read more

De la brevedad de la vida

By: Séneca

Narrated by: ®bseal voice

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Lucio Anneo Séneca filósofo, escritor, político y senador romano. Uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la antigua Roma. Considerado como uno de los máximos representantes del estoicismo, una escuela de pensamiento que resalta la importancia de la razón y la autodisciplina en el desarrollo de una vida sabia y... Read more

The Return of Great Powers

By: Jim Sciutto

Narrated by: Jim Sciutto

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller

A Politico Top 10 Book of 2024

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a... Read more

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, universal genius and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

The Notorious Edward Low

By: Len Travers

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713) a decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim—often glamorized as the "Golden Age of Piracy". Boston-based laborer, Edward Low, left his mark on pirate history as the most vicious and sadistic raider of them all. Low's reputation, and those of other pirates, was crafted through... Read more

DESTIN FRANÇAIS

By: Éric Zemmour

Narrated by: Philippe LEBEAU

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

« Je savais où je voulais vivre, avec qui je voulais vivre, et comment je voulais vivre. À mes yeux médusés d’enfant, le mot France brillait de tous les feux : histoire, littérature, politique, guerre, amour, tout était rassemblé et transfiguré par une même lumière sacrée, un même art de vivre mais aussi de mourir, une même grandeur, une même... Read more

AI Needs You

By: Verity Harding

Narrated by: Daisy Donovan

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public good Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for... Read more

The Revolutionary Temper

By: Robert Darnton

Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen

Length: 21 hours

Abridged: No

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of... Read more

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

By: Laura Robson

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of... Read more

La fuerza de la esperanza

By: Abram Goldberg & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Marlon Garcia

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Una promesa a su madre lo mantuvo con vida en medio del horror del Holocausto Cuando Abram y su madre llegaron al campo de exterminio de Auschwitz el 29 de agosto de 1944, se dieron cuenta de que sería su final. En los últimos instantes juntos, ella le pidió que hiciera todo lo humanamente posible para sobrevivir y para contarle al mundo entero... Read more

The World War I Book

By: DK

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars".

With authoritative, exciting text, The World War I Book explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its... Read more

Императрица Фике

By: Всеволод Иванов

Narrated by: Ольга Вяликова

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Издательство «Ардис» представляет историческую повесть Всеволода Никаноровича Иванова «Императрица Фике» - документальную хронику начального периода яростной борьбы, которая сопровождала появление России на мировой арене, интриг и заговоров вокруг русского трона. Содержание Глава 1. Флейта короля Глава 2. Эстафета короля Глава 3.... Read more

A Rare Recording of Major General Smedley D. Butler, Author of "War Is A Racket"

By: Major General Smedley D. Butler

Narrated by: Major General Smedley D. Butler

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

By the end his military career, Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most decorated Marine in US history, having received two medals of honor. After his service, he became an outspoken critic of US wars and wrote a scathing book called, “War Is A Racket.” The following audio clips include; In November 1934, Butler exposing an alleged fascist... Read more

A Brave and Lovely Woman

By: Mark Borthwick

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master's degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and taught at one of Germany's best schools for boys. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect... Read more

Your Eyes Will Be My Window

By: Jodi Varon

Narrated by: Sharon Freedman

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Your Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World... Read more

Vulture Capitalism

By: Grace Blakeley

Narrated by: Grace Blakeley

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.

It’s easy to look at the... Read more

Bringing Home the White House

By: Melissa Estes Blair

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved presidents. By examining the roles of these political strategists in affecting the outcome of presidential elections, Blair sheds light on their historical... Read more

Shakespeare's Sisters

By: Ramie Targoff

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.”

In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare’s... Read more

Erich Kästner: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & George Fritsche

Narrated by: George Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Erich Kästner, poet and novelist for grown-ups and children: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Grace Kelly: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Lea Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Grace Kelly, Schönheitsgöttin, Hollywood-Legende und Fürstin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Mesopotamia Unveiled: Discover the Ancient World Where History Began

By: Mike Tisty

Narrated by: George Sally

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover Mesopotamia Like Never BeforeEmbark on a captivating journey to the heart of Mesopotamia, the birthplace of the world's earliest civilizations. In "Mesopotamia Revealed: Uncovering the Cradle of Civilization," dive deep into the ancient lands that witnessed the dawn of history itself. Accompanied by the enticing subtitle, "Discover the... Read more