Top History Audiobooks

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. One day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked them exploded into murderous rage....

Join Maria Dakake of George Mason University for a riveting exploration of Islam’s founding prophet. The Life and Legacy of Muhammad leads you through the earliest historical accounts of the prophet’s life and personality....

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....

The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner....

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics, and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls....

In the days between May 24th and 28th, 1940, the British War Cabinet held a historical debate over whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war....

This fully updated edition of Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world presents new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, and new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds....

From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours piloting the UH-1 "Iroquois" - better known as the "Huey" - as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His battalion was one of the most decorated units of the Vietnam War....

Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

This a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II....

Drawing on firsthand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities, and survival in the harshest theater of war....

In The Culture of Knighthood and Medieval Romance, join scholar of medieval literature Larissa Tracy for a fascinating dive into the deeper context of narratives about knights and their world....

Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954....

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords....

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history....

In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows....