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The Best History Books for Summer: 8 Classics, Fact and Fiction, That Every History Lover Should Read

The Night of the Long Knives: On This Day. 2.7.1935

Churchill's Finest Hour: Leadership, Myth and Britain's Darkest Moment

BOOK review: How the Soviet Union Died. The August Coup, by Robert Service

The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: Heroism, Terror and the Price of Resistance

How Did Orwell Know? George Orwell, Stalin & the Power of Truth

On This Day 14 May 1955: The Signing of the Warsaw Pact

WEIMAR GERMANY: Chaos, Culture and the Collapse of Democracy. Katja Hoyer and Victor Sebestyen reviewed

Hitler's Death: Bodies. Bunkers. Conspiracies.

Anne Boleyn: History, fiction and zombies. Two new novels about Boleyn, and what they tell us about history.

Spies, Sex & Stalin: The Dark Truth About the Cambridge Five

Agent Zo, the Polish Resistance, and Stalin’s Betrayal of Poland | Clare Mulley

The Most Dangerous Lying Memoirs in History? Kim Philby, Albert Speer & the Art of the Cover-Up

The Death of Trotsky | Stalin, Espionage and Assassination – with Josh Ireland

Murder or Suicide? The Cold War Death of Jan Masaryk. A Buffs in Brief special

Sex, Mysticism and Revolution: Rasputin at the Court of the Tsar

Was This the Worst Peace Treaty Ever? | Brest-Litovsk (1918)

Buffs in Brief #2 — The Reichstag Fire (27 February 1933). Conspiracy or Opportunity?

OTD: Stalin thrown under a bus by Khrushchev. A Buffs in Brief special #1

The Baltic Crusades: The Teutonic Knights and the Birth of Europe’s Most Dangerous Frontier

The Secret Nazi Scientist Programme that Helped Build America

The Day Capitalism Broke: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 & the Road to Hitler

🎆 The History Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026 🎆

Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings PART 2

Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings — Part 1

Nuremberg: Day 1...20.11.1945. The Days that Changed the World

The Days that Changed the World: 23 August, 1939. The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Inside Operation Biting: The History Book Buffs read Max Hastings.

The horrors of U-boat warfare: the books that inspired Wolfpack by Roger Moorhouse.

Did books defeat the Soviet Empire? The History Book Buffs read The CIA Book Club by Charlie English.

Tunisgrad. Was this the battle that changed the course of WW2?

Storm of Steel and All Quiet on the Western Front: A WW1 classics showdown

The Siege: Terror and the SAS in the London Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980.

Which books shaped our lives? The HistoryBookBuffs take the 3 Book Challenge.

Tanks, Blitzkriegs and Battlefields.

Why Did Millions Follow Hitler? Reading The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees.

Is this the bloodiest war of the Twentieth Century? Reviewing Korea, War Without End, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman

The End of World War 2. Have we got it all wrong? Reviewing Victory '45 by Al Murray and James Hollland, and 45: The Reckoning by Phil Craig

RAIN OF RUIN - Firebombing, nuclear weapons and the ethics of war.