Historical

The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy young lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.

The extraordinary story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller....

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...

Oliphant's brilliance was not limited to atomic science, he was also central to the development of radar, which saved Britain from Nazi invasion. After the war, Oliphant's push against US nuclear dominance drew suspicion from the CIA.

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20h century....

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier “An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York...

When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both....

A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of...

Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the...

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream....

This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....

A must-listen business biography from Stephen B. Siegel, chairman of global brokerage for CBRE, the world’s largest real estate firm.

Alexander Hamilton is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. A deep thinker, a military leader, and a political dynamo, he was George Washington's right-hand man and perhaps the most important figure in the shaping of the Constitution....

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....

Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery....

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents.

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In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography....

Warrant Officer Terry Crump was a Cobra gunship pilot who earned a near-unprecedented seven Distinguished Flying Crosses in his one-year tour in Vietnam.

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five....

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country....

As shots rang out on March 29, 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and three others lie seriously wounded. Just two months after Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president, John Hinckley Jr. shocked the world because of his movie star obsession. What followed was chaos. America learned of the deep psychosis that led to Hinckley’s obsession with actress Jodie Foster, and how, in his mind, he did it all for her. His trial gripped the nation.

A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine...

Explore the extraordinary life of J.R.R. Tolkien, the legendary creator of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, in this captivating literary biography that celebrates the father of modern fantasy and his profound influence on fantasy literature and mythological storytelling. This captivating...

Retrato de una treintena de españoles que han marcado la historia de su tiempo en distintos campos, de la literatura al pensamiento, pasando por la política, la economía o el deporte. De Augusto a Rafa Nadal.

Those Who Stayed is Claudia Krich's personal firsthand account of the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the beginning of the new Provisional Revolutionary Government. Her vivid impressions of those intense, historic days emerge primarily from her journal, capturing the uncertainty, fear, and excitement as the North Vietnamese soldiers arrived. She intertwines personal, sometimes heartbreaking episodes with major historic events.

A heroic queen who shaped the course of history. Isabel of Spain led with courage during the Reconquista, reformed her nation through justice, and launched a new era by supporting Columbus’s voyages. Her bold, faith-filled reign eclipses even that of England’s Elizabeth. This is the first major English biography of Isabel in decades — scholarly, detailed, and deeply inspiring.

Our American Revolution for Beginners audiobook is written in a style and structure that makes listening and immersing yourself in history as enjoyable and captivating as possible. You'll witness the daring strategies, meet the real revolutionaries, and finally understand what pushed colonists to fight for independence.

In this memorable biography, Mordechai Bar-On, Dayan's IDF bureau chief, offers an intimate view of Dayan's private life, public career, and political controversies, set against an original analysis of Israel's political environment from pre-Mandate Palestine through the early 1980s.

As restoration manager at Mount Vernon, Jordan Poole had keys to America's most sacred home. But preserving history meant confronting its ghosts—both literal and buried. Unexplained footsteps in empty hallways. A disconnected phone line that still calls from Washington's tomb. Civil War signatures hidden beneath paint, left by soldiers who would die at Andersonville.

Diana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only 17. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish region of Iran in the 1960s and 70s. She became involved in politics as a teenager and, like many students, played a part in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. But the new Islamic regime tolerated no opposition, and after Kurdistan was brutally attacked, Galavezh found that she had no choice but to become a soldier in the famed military force.

Doc Holliday didn’t begin his career as a gunslinger. The fact that he was known as “Doc” speaks to his first profession. For as sure and true as his aim might have been, his initial career path did not involve shooting bullets—it involved pulling teeth. He was a dentist by trade who ended up becoming a gambler and gunslinger by necessity.

He didn’t lead the revolution. He survived it. Joseph Stalin rose from a shoeless Georgian childhood to become the most feared dictator of the 20th century. Not by inspiring crowds, but by outliving, outkilling, and outmaneuvering everyone in his path. He purged his rivals, starved his people, rewrote the past, and built a police state so vast it swallowed truth itself. He didn’t just kill millions. He turned fear into policy, propaganda into scripture, and loyalty into silence. This audiobook is not a tribute.

Plato wasn’t just a philosopher, he was the architect of the mind. Born into a collapsing democracy, haunted by the death of Socrates, and obsessed with a world that didn’t yet exist, Plato set out to do the impossible: rebuild reality from scratch.

SINOPSISSantiago Valiente, una historia real es el testimonio en primera persona de un hombre que vivió la historia de España entre 1910 y 1950. Escrita íntegramente en verso, con un estilo castizo, fresco y muy ingenioso. Esta obra ofrece una mirada lúcida y profundamente humana a una época convulsa. Desde la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, la Segunda República, la quema de iglesias, la tragedia de Casas Viejas, hasta la Guerra Civil vivida en ambos bandos y la posguerra, Santiago Valiente narra con humor, emoción y crudeza lo que supuso vivir ese tiempo como ciudadano anónimo.

Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.

Set in St. Paul, Minnesota during Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II and the postwar era, this book traces one woman's journey through challenges experienced by women of her time. By divorcing an intolerable husband in the 1920s, she was forced to give up her son to his father along with her security and the protection of a family. She re-married and took on the secrets and challenges of a man involved in bootlegging and other suspicious activity and became a mother to his children. She had four more children of her own, experiencing love and loss during a time of deprivation.

In his ground-breaking work The Confessions, Augustine of Hippo (AD 343-430), a prominent theologian and philosopher of early Christianity, paved the way for self-disclosure and the art of writing one's life story. In On a Pilgrimage with Augustine's Confessions, Dr. Blom delves into Augustine's role as both protagonist and reflective narrator, portraying him as Christianity's original existential hero.

Este libro recorre la vida y el legado de Gengis Kan desde su infancia en la estepa hasta la consolidación de un imperio que transformó Eurasia. Combina narración histórica rigurosa con un enfoque humanizado para explicar cómo un líder forjó unidad a partir del caos, impuso la Yassa como norma de proporcionalidad, convirtió la Ruta de la Seda en un sistema seguro de comercio y creó una burocracia móvil que hizo posible la “Pax Mongolica”.

In 1931, the US was in the throes of the Depression, money was scarce, and most children went to work in blue-color jobs before finishing high school. Into this world, Thomas Sawyer arrived and was soon shuttled to various relatives following his mother’s affair before moving with his mother and two siblings into a small apartment in South Baltimore with another of her paramours.

Across centuries and continents, real love stories unfolded quietly behind palace doors, in secret letters, and across battlefields unseen by history textbooks but etched in time. Scandalous and Sacred dives deep into the lives of real couples who dared to love beyond society’s rigid lines of race, class, gender, and religion.

With gripping storytelling and cutting-edge scholarship, Pirates of Empire reframes piracy not as rebellion against empire, but as its indispensable partner. It exposes how colonial powers quietly relied on black markets to sustain their ambitions, and how these hidden economies gave rise to the modern Caribbean, multicultural, volatile, and endlessly creative.

The year was 1933, and the Great Depression had taken hold, but a young and adventurous writer, Ruthven Colquhoun McNairn, embarked on an incredible four month adventure from Hamilton Ontario to Chicago, Denver, and Colorado Springs exploring the cities and surrounding landscape, and then heading West, hitchhiking to Los Angeles through New Mexico, Arizona and California, capturing the unique people he met and traveled with and the strange new country he was exploring beautifully in his diary, which reads like a John Steinbeck novel.

En plena efervescencia del siglo XII, el Reino de Jerusalén encontró en Balduino IV a un gobernante singular: un rey marcado por la lepra que convirtió el dolor en disciplina, la fragilidad en método y la fe en política de Estado. Este libro recorre su infancia y educación, el ascenso en medio de intrigas, las campañas contra Saladino, la construcción de una maquinaria administrativa sobria, la compleja diplomacia con órdenes militares y potencias vecinas, y el ocaso del poder entre regencias y disputas sucesorias.

Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years "truthful, which is illegal" and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasley's words have been all but inaccessible for almost a century—until now.

Unveiling Our Story: Intimate African American Narratives is a powerful and timely tribute to the voices that history too often tries to silence. In an era where African American history is being questioned, diluted, and even erased, this audiobook stands as a bold act of remembrance and resistance. Through deeply personal accounts from individuals closely connected to the author, this collection reveals the triumphs and trials of Black life in America over the past century. These stories-raw and resilient-shine a light on the enduring legacy of racism, but they also go far beyond it.