History audiobooks

Ferdinand Porsche: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ferdinand Porsche, Erfinder des Volkswagen Käfer und Gründer einer Sportwagendynastie: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Sunshine State Mafia

By: Doug Kelly

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, wild ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book tells stories of organized crime rings that have settled in Florida and made the state their base of operations for bootlegging, gambling, extortion, money laundering, and drug running.



Featuring Al Capone and crime rings in Miami and South Florida, the Trafficante family in Tampa,... Read more

Just and Unjust Wars

By: Michael Walzer

Narrated by: Gregory St. John

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A classic in the field” (New York Times), this is a penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present.

Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues... Read more

The Saigon Guns

By: John Thomas Hoffman

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam... Read more

Rediscovering Turtle Island

By: Taylor Keen

Narrated by: Taylor Keen

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

• Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America

• Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time

• Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas... Read more

French Cinema

By: Dudley Andrew

Narrated by: Alex Mortensen

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until WWI, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice.



This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most... Read more

A Place of Our Own

By: June Thomas

Narrated by: June Thomas

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the... Read more

Beyond Policing

By: Philip V. McHarris

Narrated by: Philip V. McHarris

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It’s evident that policing is a problem. But what is the way best forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines the world without police to find answers and reveal how we can make police... Read more

Impossible Monsters

By: Michael Taylor

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.



When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the... Read more

Scripting Empire

By: James Procter

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals... Read more

Wu

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court power-game, she caused the deaths of two lady rivals, before securing her enthronement as the... Read more

The Shortest History of Japan

By: Lesley Downer

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.



Even at the nearest point, Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around... Read more

In Strange Company

By: Col. Roland J. Tiso Jr. (Ret) US Army

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 21 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire... Read more

Mission Iran

By: James Stejskal

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States.



Detachment A had been established in Berlin early in the Cold War to harass and delay any Soviet military advance west. This Special... Read more

Bernhard Sindberg

By: Peter Harmsen

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are killed. At the very onset of the atrocities, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp... Read more

Mosquito Warrior

By: Carol R. Byerly

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (1854–1920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and public health. His fascinating life illuminates vast transformations in the United States.



Gorgas came of age amidst war and disease and the politics of racial segregation. He followed his father into... Read more

Life and Death at Abbey Gate

By: Mikael Cook

Narrated by: Mikael Cook

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As the American government began a disastrous mass evacuation of its Afghan allies, a group of American veterans saw the writing on the wall—the people who had supported them on the ground over the past two decades were going to be left behind. Instead of watching on the sideline, they sprang into action. The effort became known nationally as... Read more

Fighting From Above

By: Brian D. Laslie

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over... Read more

The Movement

By: Clara Bingham

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards, Gibson Fraz...

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral... Read more

The Viking World

By: Stefan Brink & Neil Price

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 29 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.



Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the... Read more

Hijacked

By: Elizabeth Anderson

Narrated by: Carolyn Jania

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve.... Read more

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

By: L J Trafford

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and often-funny look into Romans' private (or not-so-private) lives, exploring the truth behind the empire's salacious reputation.



From emperors to empresses, poets to prostitutes, slaves to plebs, ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations—nowhere more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The... Read more

Ghost Ship

By: Brian Hicks

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for... Read more

Tracing Florida Journeys

By: Leslie Kemp Poole

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

How has Florida's land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective... Read more