Top History Audiobooks

Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....

Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.

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 name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated....

In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in history....

Trigger Warning is a story of success, triumph, trauma and overcoming. This is the story of a former Special Operations Engineer as he worked relentlessly to rekindle his life after the war.

The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....

In the basement of one of the world's most prestigious universities, there was a classroom lined with a collection of human skulls from around the globe....

A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

The first comprehensive biography of the godfather of Australian bushranging–Frank Gardiner–leader of the Lachlan gang and mastermind of the largest gold heist in Australian history.

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

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

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz....

An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history....

For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved....

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

It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....