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....

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

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

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....

Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth....

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

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. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of...

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....

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

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

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...

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

Like many historical events, the American Revolution is sometimes overlooked, ignored, or minimized by historians due to being shrouded in romantic myth and stubborn stereotypes....

For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown....

Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130, created this Commission to investigate the assassination...of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States....

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

A classic of JFK assassination literature, Sylvia Meagher's work is a relentless indictment of the Warren Commission and its work....

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....

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...