Top History Audiobooks

From one of Australia's leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media need to believe Black witnesses and showcasing ways that journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place.

Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt....

Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking and unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his "disciples," at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan and his own experiences....

LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling....

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy....

James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

For centuries, the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature, and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous....

Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

After high school Lynda Van Devanter attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly....

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different....

A fascinating look at a neglected Allied front in the Southern hemisphere....

In this gritty New York Times best-seller, the true story of a crooked deal between the FBI and the Irish Mob is exposed....

In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a company of Tigers at Kursk....

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides....

For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign - a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics....

The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....