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Last three things I have listened to:

"The Stealth War" by Gen. Robert Spaulding Ret.
- Very depressing, but offset by the wealth of knowledge on how China has been rapaciously taking it to us for the past several decades. I got two thirds of the way through it and had to take a break, but went back to finish it,have about an hour or two left. Fascinating and nauseating at the same time. It is one of the books that I buy the Kindle version and buy the audio version...so I can mark up the Kindle version.
"The Cold War-What We Saw" by Bill Whittle
- I give this a five star review, as well as the last series he put out called "Apollo 11-What We Saw". Unbelievably good, both of these. In both cases, I waited eagerly for the next week that he put each one out, and was sad when the last one ended. I give these the highest rating I ever give, and I am one of those people who almost NEVER gives the maximum on any scale. In the Cold War series (each about an hour long) he spent nearly an entire episode talking about John Boyd, who is known to anyone who knows anything about modern military aviation. Another episode he spent time talking about "Operation Bolo" in Vietnam, the star being General Robin Olds (Colonel at the time), a bad boy of all bad boys...the one all men wanted to follow, and the man we all wanted to be. A no chickenshit commander.
"South" by Ernest Shackleton
- I have always been fascinated by the unbelievable survival story of the Shackleton Expedition, but after listening to this, I was compelled to teach myself how to do celestial navigation, because their feat of crossing 800 miles of the worst ocean in the world in the Arctic Winter with only three navigational sightings taken and hitting a small island is astonishing. Still trying to learn navigation, though...:)