Top History Audiobooks

This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....

This series of lectures offers detailed analyses of the strategic and tactical dimensions of the Civil War's most important campaigns....

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....

From USA Today Bestselling Author Lucas Russo comes a powerful journey into the world's greatest legends — now available in one unforgettable audiobook experience.

In this monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism....

Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn....

If you thought you already knew everything there was to know about the Kennedy assassination, think again....

William C. Davis, one of America’s best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before....

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary...

Stone charts Nixon’s rise from election to Congres to the White House in 1968 after his razor-thin loss to John Kennedy, and his disastrous campaign for Governor of California in 1962...

While it’s easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without investigating the period's politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics....

The case against Lyndon B. Johnson and his role in Kennedy's assassination has never been sounder....

When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories, Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains, and sent to Italy to live out the...

John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers....

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students....

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of five prominent Annapolis graduates to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America....

Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates....