Top History Audiobooks

Old Sparky covers the history of capital punishment in America and the "current wars" between Edison and Westinghouse, which led to the development of the electric chair....

The extraordinary story of a young girl whose musical genius saves her from the Holocaust....

This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead it addresses why we should question the actions of those involved and why the truth was withheld….

During Prohibition, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa - population just 418 - were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own....

From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna....

In 1982, a 20-something named Michael Ross left home to backpack across Europe....

Finally, the truth behind the crime of the twentieth century!

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

It is sometimes difficult to remember that in war there are innocents on all sides who suffer....

In Mandela, former foreign correspondent Bob Crew demystifies the icon and his legacy....

Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime....

Here is the story of the forgotten Kharkov trials, which sought justice for the thousands killed in the Ukraine two years prior to the infamous Nuremberg trial....

How an unprepared, undertrained group of Maine National Guard troops went to Abu Ghraib to fix the irreparable....

Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air", Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners....

As noted in the preface to the edition published in 1990 of this true account: 'He was betrayed by one of his colleagues'....

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of...

One man had a single goal…to eliminate Hitler from the face of the Earth....

Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims....

Get to know one of history’s most impressive generals from the political and military conflicts that defined his adolescence to the battles that made him famous. These 15 lectures will paint a portrait of not only Hannibal, but also his enemies and allies....