I’m listening to Shelby Foote’s award winning three-volume chronology of the Civil War. The narrator is very good and the prose is just outstanding for a history. I’m on the final volume and have enjoyed every bit of it.
I was never a CW buff and studied it a bit in college but my interest was not rabid like some people. But listening to this has been great - it’s so well written. The balance between formal history, anecdote, and human interest stuff is artful.