March 13, 2024

35 Best History Audiobooks Published in the Past Five Years

On LearnOutLoud.com, we’ve recently added thousands of new audiobooks to our Audio & Video Learning Catalog. Included in these additions are thousands of new history audiobooks that have been published in the past five years. These audiobooks cover a wide range of historical topics across time and around the world. You can now browse:

Over 7,000 History Audiobooks to Download on LearnOutLoud.com

From ancient history to audiobooks about the future, we’ve added thousands of new titles. To guide you we’ll highlight 35 of the best new history audiobooks for each of our history subcategories. We’ve picked out about five titles from each subcategory that have been popular and highly rated. Check them out:

Best American History Audio Books:

The Pioneers by David McCullough
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade
The Fifties by David Halberstam
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi
The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Best Ancient & Medieval History Audio Books:

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan

Best European History Audio Books:

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver
The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst
A History of France by John Julius Norwich
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989 by Frederick Taylor

Best Military History Audio Books:

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Best Audio Books Featuring Speeches:

Keeping Hope Alive by Jesse Jackson
When They Go Low, We Go High by Philip Collins
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958 by Albert Camus

Best Audio Books About The Future:

2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide by Mauro F. Guillen
The Fourth Turning Is Here by Neil Howe
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future by Tom Wheeler

Best World History:

Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace
Tiny Blunders-Big Disasters by Jared Knott
The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond

Learn about history because “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it!” -George Santayana.