Top History Audiobooks

Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history’s most colorful events....

John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967....

Whatever the form, whatever the treat - sugar drives us wild like nothing else. It’s lingered on our tongues for millennia and found its way into almost every household in the world. Alas, the history of sugar is far from sweet....

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago....

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

The right man in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between victory and defeat....

In these 10 eye-opening lectures by a practicing doctor and medical educator, you’ll walk through a series of medical mystery cases ripped from history and involving well-known historical figures whose identities are hidden from you. Each case requires your detective skills....

During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan....

Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam....

SS General Hans Kammler was one of the worst of the Nazi war criminals. He was the architect of the Nazis’ death camp technology. He designed the gas chambers and crematoria that Nazis used to kill and dispose of millions of Jewish prisoners during World War II....

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of great ambition and enormous greed, both of which, in 1963, would threaten to destroy him....

For almost four desperate years between 1939 and 1943, British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolf packs....

In this meticulously researched book, uncover the remarkable story of Roman occupation in Britain, spanning from the invasions of Julius Caesar to the eventual decline of Roman influence.

While they were indeed ostentatious, calculating, worldly, cruel - and even, occasionally, murderous - you may be surprised to find that the Borgias were not terribly different from other powerful and ambitious families of their day....

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces....

Leave No Man Behind is a story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Army Rangers’ rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Operations incidents in Afghanistan - a grueling search for 12 Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers....

First published as a pamphlet in 1850 in response to the socialist-communist plans and ideas being adopted in France at that time, The Law remains equally relevant today....

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....

Throughout history, women have played integral roles in family, society, religion, government, war - in short, in all aspects of human civilization. Professor Dorsey Armstrong will introduce you to 10 amazing women who played vital roles in the Middle Ages....

In the six lectures of A Short History of Role-Playing Games, gaming consultant and avid gamer Jamin Warren will take you on a whirlwind tour of role-playing games, tracing a fascinating story of community-building, technical innovation, and, occasionally, cultural backlash.