History audiobooks

Los habitantes del Medoterráneo Oriental

By: Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Rollán & Tomás Campos

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La costa oriental del Mediterráneo se distinguió netamente de Egipto y Mesopotamia, dedicando su trabajo al comercio en lugar de hacerlo a la agricultura. Esta peculiaridad cambió radicalmente su cultura y su arte, como puede verse en estas breves colecciones que demuestran su originalidad con respecto a las dos civilizaciones antes... Read more

Arte africano y oceánico

By: Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Rollán & Tomás Campos

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Se trata sin duda del arte más primitivo de nuestro tiempo y presenta serias semejanzas con los estilos más antiguos de nuestra historia, que todavía no puede explicar convincentemente la escasa evolución técnica y social de algunas partes de África y Oceanía. Esta escasa evolución económica dio lugar a una existencia primitiva que no puede... Read more

The Death of a President

By: William Manchester & Edith Sheffer

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 33 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive... Read more

I Shall Live

By: Henry Orenstein

Narrated by: Henry Orenstein

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever... Read more

Philomena

By: Martin Sixsmith

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a " fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of... Read more

All the World a Stage

By: Megan Lewis

Narrated by: Megan Lewis

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Western Curriculum Course #1212600 Title: All the World A Stage: The Theatre in History Author: Professor Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts Amherst Program Description: All the world is a stage, Shakespeare tells us, and we are all its players. In fact, since the dawn of human history, we find evidence of theatre and performance. And... Read more

The Squared Circle

By: David Shoemaker

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakthrough examination of professional wrestling—its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact—that does for the sport what Chuck Klosterman did for heavy metalThe Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker's writing for both Deadspin, where he started the column "Dead Wrestler of the Week"—a feature on the many wrestling superstars... Read more

Churchill and the King

By: Kenneth Weisbrode

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The intriguing bond between monarch and prime minister and its crucial role during World War II

The political and personal relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill during World War II is one that has been largely overlooked throughout history, yet the trust and loyalty these men shared helped Britain navigate its perhaps most... Read more

The King's Grave

By: Michael Jones & Philippa Langley

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

On 22 August 1485, Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII), went on to found one of our most famous ruling dynasties. Richard's body was displayed in undignified fashion for two days in nearby Leicester and then hurriedly buried in the church... Read more

Tune In

By: Mark Lewisohn

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 43 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.... Read more

Empress Dowager Cixi

By: Jung Chang

Narrated by: Jolene Kim

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their... Read more

Fire and Light

By: James MacGregor Burns

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, bringing down governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments that would ultimately reach every... Read more

Heretics and Heroes

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.
 
In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and... Read more

Lincoln in the World

By: Kevin Peraino

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents-- and helped point the way to America' s rise to world power. This is the story of one of the most breathtaking feats in the annals of American foreign policy-- performed by one of the most unlikely figures. Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered... Read more

All the Time in the World

By: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book... Read more

Melissa Explains It All

By: Melissa Joan Hart

Narrated by: Melissa Joan Hart

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny behind-the-scenes stories from her extraordinary past and her... Read more

A Cruel and Shocking Act

By: Philip Shenon

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole... Read more

The War That Ended Peace

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 31 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War... Read more

The Siege

By: Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and... Read more

Japan 1941

By: Eri Hotta

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians,... Read more

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey

By: The Countess of Carnarvon

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Catherine Wendell.  In this transporting companion piece to the New York Times bestseller Lady Almina and the Real Downton... Read more

Falling Upwards

By: Richard Holmes

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.Dramatic... Read more

“Mr. President”

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency."... Read more

A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine

By: Tony Benn

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age.
With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic... Read more