History audiobooks

朱元璋演义（上卷）

By: 谈传旭

Narrated by: 谈传旭

Length: 39 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

《朱元璋演义：群雄起义》带你回到元朝末年的风云变幻中，讲述一个小和尚、放牛娃如何成长为反元义军领袖的传奇故事。这部有声书记录了朱元璋在好友刘伯温、徐达、武殿章、胡大海等人的帮助下，组织农民起义军，推翻元顺帝残暴统治的历史进程。
从朱元璋在皇觉寺出家，到在马家庄结良缘，再到辅佐郭子兴起义，每一个章节都生动曲折，反映了那个动荡年代的人民生活和反抗斗争。书中的每个人物都鲜明生动，故事情节扣人心弦，展现了真善美的力量，鞭挞假恶丑的现象。
在这部有声书的上部，朱元璋的成长轨迹和历史进程得到忠实还原，为历史事件赋予了传奇色彩，带你深入了解那个时代的风云变幻。
Notice: The audiobook is narrated in Mandarin注意：有声书的演播语言是中文（普通话） Read more

Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders

By: Bernard Edwards

Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East. With typical thoroughness, the Royal Navy went further, and took the... Read more

India

By: John Keay

Narrated by: Mike Fraser

Length: 32 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The British historian and author of Into India delivers a history that is intelligent, incisive, and eminently readable (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the... Read more

How to Be a Renaissance Woman

By: Jill Burke

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?



As the Renaissance visual world became populated... Read more

Tank Men

By: Robert Kershaw

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"I thought Tank Men was a triumph . . . it is a really fine piece of work." —Richard Holmes



"Some of the eyewitness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare at the sharp end." —Nottingham Evening Post



The First World War saw the birth of an... Read more

What Does Justice Look Like?

By: Waziyatawin Ph.D.

Narrated by: Waziyatawin Ph.D.

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

During the past 150 years, the majority of Minnesotans have not acknowledged the immense and ongoing harms suffered by the Dakota People ever since their homelands were invaded over 200 years ago.  Many Dakota people say that the wounds incurred have never healed, and it is clear that the injustices—genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass executions,... Read more

Метаморфози, або Золотий осел

By: Апулей

Narrated by: Матвій Ніколаєв

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Читачам пропонується один з найкращих творів античної літератури — роман римського письменника Апулея (125—170), що належить до вершин світового письменства. Перед нами захоплююча розповідь про дивовижні пригоди головного героя Луція, перетвореного магічною силою на осла. Роман приваблює незвичайним сплавом казкових, фольклорних та реалістичних... Read more

How to Be a Renaissance Woman

By: Jill Burke

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?



As the Renaissance visual world became populated... Read more

Paula Modersohn-Becker: A short biography

By: 5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies & Lea Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Paula Modersohn-Becker, German paintress of global fame: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best! Read more

Did Columbus discover America?

By: Shreyas Pande & Sharad Baggonkar

Narrated by: Santosh Nair, S. Girish

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Columbus was an explorer, fine mapmaker and navigator. He also had deep interest in geography, astronomy, and history. Columbus loved sailing the high seas and was keen to explore a sea passage to the East which would help him reach India. With that in mind he went to the King of Spain in with a proposal in 1492 who immediately... Read more

Mis inventos

By: Nikola Tesla

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“El instinto es algo que trasciende el conocimiento” Nikola Tesla.ADÉNTRATE EN LA MENTE DE UN VISIONARIO.A través de sus propias palabras, Nikola Tesla nos lleva en un viaje desde su infancia en el Imperio Austrohúngaro, pasando por sus años de formación y sus primeras invenciones, hasta sus logros más notables en los Estados Unidos colaborando... Read more

Who Killed The President?

By: Brian Gibson

Narrated by: John Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States as President and the country's youngest and first Catholic leader. His singularity foreshadowed a sort of challenge to his presidency from the start. Many people were taken aback by his assassination. It was the height of the Cold War and the United States' involvement in Vietnam. John... Read more

Irish Mythology: Enthralling Myths, Folktales, and Legends of Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures of Ancient Ireland

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook beckons you into a world where the veil between the mundane and the magical is whisper-thin, where the landscapes of Ireland are not just settings but also active participants in tales of heroism, love, and betrayal.Within this audiobook lies the heart of Irish identity—a rich heritage of storytelling that has been passed down... Read more

F1 Racing Confidential

By: Giles Richards

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock an all-access look inside the thrilling world of Formula One. 

Formula One is one of the most intense, complex and secretive sports on the planet. Recent documentaries such as Netflix’s Drive to Survive series have given a glimpse of life inside the paddock, but there are so many more stories from this high-stakes, globetrotting world... Read more

Paris '44

By: Patrick Bishop

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great hinge moments of WW2.

The fall of Paris to the Nazis in June 1940 seemed like the darkest day of the Second World War; and the liberation of the city in August 1944 felt like the... Read more

Historia de la India: Un apasionante recorrido por importantes civilizaciones, imperios, acontecimientos, personajes y religiones

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

«Incredible India» es el eslogan de la campaña oficial de turismo de la India, ¡y es verdad!La India tiene una historia asombrosa, desde algunas de las primeras civilizaciones del mundo hasta su cultura contemporánea de alta tecnología y una enorme diversidad de religiones, artes y pueblos.Este libro recorre todo el camino desde los inicios... Read more

How Economics Works

By: DK

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover everything you need to know about economics with this unique graphic guide.

With clear, jargon-free language, How Economics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of economics.

Covering everything from economic theories to economies in action, the book presents the groundbreaking ideas of key economists - from... Read more

Gene Kelly: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Heroine's Journey (With Anne Shirley And Jo March)

By: Star & Niina Niskanen

Narrated by: Star & Niina Niskanen

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

What an amazing episode! My guest Star is here to talk to us about the "heroine's journey". The heroine's journey came about in 1990 when Maureen Murdock, a psychologist published a book called The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness.My guest Star is here to talk to us about Heroine's Journey and we are discussing the heroine's... Read more

On a Sea of Glass

By: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton & Bill Wormstedt

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those... Read more

Unit X

By: Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah & Christopher...

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit.

A vast and largely unseen transformation... Read more

Elisabeth Elliot

By: Lucy S. R. Austen

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 25 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An In-Depth Biography on the Life and Work of Missionary Elisabeth Elliot Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the 20th and 21st centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and 4 other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who... Read more

Madoff

By: Richard Behar

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell & Bernie Madoff

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar delivers the definitive account of history’s largest—and longest-running—financial fraud, “the scale of the deception…beggars belief” (New York Post).

Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff’s epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme’s... Read more

A Day in the Life of the Maya: History, Culture and Daily Life in the Mayan Empire

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people.In 2012... Read more