History audiobooks

Heretic

By: Catherine Nixey

Narrated by: Lalla Ward

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

""A brilliant book—sometimes frightening, occasionally funny, frequently unsettling and always a thrill to read. It probes painfully into the pathology of belief."" — The Times From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of... Read more

The Roads to Rome

By: Catherine Fletcher

Narrated by: Catherine Fletcher

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"All roads lead to Rome" is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire—and these ancient roads continue to grip our imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's greatness.



Over the two thousand years since they were built, these roads have been walked by crusaders and... Read more

Much Ado About Numbers

By: Rob Eastaway

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare's era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of "zero" to Galileo's redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare's plays—and his world—touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation, music, sports, and more.



● How reliable was a pocket sundial?



● Was... Read more

Ocean

By: John Haywood

Narrated by: Ben Eagle

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New... Read more

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not... Read more

A Century of Tomorrows

By: Glenn Adamson

Narrated by: Glenn Adamson

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Century of Tomorrows written and read by Glenn Adamson

An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.

For millennia, predicting the future was the province of priests and prophets, the realm of... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

Agent Zo

By: Clare Mulley

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Clare Mulley

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.



During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka—the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo—was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the Polish... Read more

The Last Kilo

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more

Ich trug den gelben Stern (Ungekürzt)

By: Inge Deutschkron

Narrated by: Chris Nonnast

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Dokument über Entrechtung, Verfolgung, Deportation und Tod, über Illegalität und Identitätsverlust und zugleich stiller menschlicher Hilfsbereitschaft. Viele Angehörige der älteren Generation erinnern sich noch daran, wie die Nazis ihre Kindheit missbrauchten, ohne dass sie dies damals erfassen konnten. Wie aber erlitten die Söhne und... Read more

Twelve Days on the Somme

By: Sidney Rogerson

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometres. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost. In this classic military memoir, Staff Sergeant Sidney Rogerson... Read more

Lily of the Valley

By: by Vilma Di Nardo

Narrated by: Lily Jane

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Deception is your greatest weapon.Germany, 1941.Now that the Nazis have taken over her homeland, Anna Goldberg, a seventeen-year-old Jew, is afraid to go anywhere and is effectively a prisoner in her own home. Anna and her father are dependent on the help of their loyal servant, Old Albert, who eschews Nazi ideology and continues his fight to... Read more

The Age of Faith

By: Will Durant, PhD

Narrated by: Brian Conover

Length: 29 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot imagine anyone so erudite that they cannot learn a great deal from this monumental work.” —from the foreword by Richard Smoley

The great series The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is one of the most monumental achievements in historical writing. In its eleven massive volumes, it tells the story of Western civilization... Read more

The Story of Philosophy Deluxe Edition with The Age of Faith The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers Includes Bonus Book - The Age of Faith: The Climax of Christianity 1095-1300, From the Crusades through Dante Will Durant, Ph.D.

By: Will Durant, Ph.D.

Narrated by: David Markus & Brian Conover

Length: 49 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophy has often seemed like the castor oil of the disciplines: healthy, but never pleasurable, and best when swallowed quickly and forgotten.

Although this view is understandable, it is regrettable. It isolates intelligent readers from some of the most important thought of Western civilization, much of which underlies our understanding of... Read more

The History of England Volume 4

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Volume 4, Hume closes his account of ‘England Under the House of Tudor' begun in Volume 3, and devotes it entirely to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It was not really expected that she would survive to accede to the monarchy; and it was certainly unexpected that she would rule for so long (1558-1603) while steadfastly declining to take a... Read more

Als Licht das Dunkel durchdrang

By: Ian Mortimer

Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir neigen dazu, das Mittelalter als eine dunkle, rückständige und konstante Zeit zu sehen, die von Gewalt, Unwissenheit und Aberglaube geprägt war. Im Gegensatz dazu glauben wir, dass Fortschritt auf Wissenschaft und technischer Innovation beruht und dass uns erst die Erfindungen der letzten Jahrhunderte in die Moderne geführt haben. Ian... Read more

La música que nos define

By: Sopitas

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

LA MÚSICA NO SE CREA NI SE DESTRUYE, SOLO SE TRANSFORMA Si tuvieras que explicarle a un alien qué diablos es la música, ¿cómo lo harías? Nada fácil, ¿cierto? Porque la música está presente en nuestra vida desde que nacemos, con las canciones que marcan nuestro primer amor y ruptura, hasta las que algunos eligen para partir. La música nos... Read more

El triunfo de la estupidez

By: Jano García

Narrated by: Carlos Valdés

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Un original ensayo político sobre cómo la mediocridad ha conquistado el poder, en el que Jano García desmonta con datos el relato establecido sobre la igualdad, la justicia social, la multiculturalidad o la solidaridad intergeneracional. Un audiolibro imprescindible que nos ofrece argumentos para contrarrestar la más dañina de las pandemias: la... Read more

El arte de vivir

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva traducción del manual de vida de Epicteto, un texto que destila los principios del estoicismo en consejos prácticos y directos para cultivar la resiliencia, la paz interna y la libertad personal. Epicteto, maestro de la Antigüedad y uno de los más grandes filósofos estoicos, promulgaba que la felicidad se logra al aceptar lo que no... Read more

La radio puesta

By: Javier Montes

Narrated by: Javier Montes

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

¿De verdad el vídeo mató a la estrella de la radio, como sentenciaba la canción de los Buggles? No, simplemente la desplazó a otro lugar. Este libro reivindica la radio como compañía, como inspiración, como ventana al mundo que combina lo íntimo y lo universal. La radio que ponemos cada mañana para aterrizar en la realidad mientras preparamos el... Read more

Giro d'Italia

By: Colin O'Brien

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Giro d'Italia—Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many—is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals, tradition under threat from modernity all play out against a timeless landscape. The iconic riders, mythical... Read more

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

By: Benjamin Nathans

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 23 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of... Read more

The Book of Viking Myths

By: Peter Archer

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating new book reveals the origins of the Vikings—from Thor and Leif Erikson to Loki and the Valkyries—and the tales that have influenced our own lives.

For thousands of years, Vikings have held a storied place in our culture—their distinct appearance, their mighty longships, their reputation for causing death and destruction. But who... Read more

Spirit Sleuths

By: Gail Jarrow

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

THE MEDIUM ANNOUNCES THE SPIRITS HAVE ARRIVED … It is the early twentieth century and the spiritualism movement is soaring in America. World War I and an influenza pandemic have killed hundreds of thousands. People are desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, so they seek the help of mediums, psychics, and fortune tellers. The... Read more