The History Book Buffs
By Roger Moorhouse and Antonia Senior
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Description
Serious history. Serious books.
Hosted by bestselling historian Roger Moorhouse and novelist & critic Antonia Senior, The History Book Buffs helps you discover the best history books — new releases and classic must-reads.
We publish across three strands:
📖 Book Reviews
Deep dives into major historical topics — WW2, the Cold War, Tudor intrigue, empire, revolution and more — with sharp analysis and curated reading recommendations.
⚡ Buffs in Brief
Short, focused episodes on events that happened this day or this week in history .
🎙 Beyond the Book
In-depth Author Interviews.
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How Did Orwell Know? George Orwell, Stalin & the Power of Truth
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May 21, 2026 |
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On This Day 14 May 1955: The Signing of the Warsaw Pact
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May 14, 2026 |
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WEIMAR GERMANY: Chaos, Culture and the Collapse of Democracy. Katja Hoyer and Victor Sebestyen reviewed
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May 07, 2026 |
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Hitler's Death: Bodies. Bunkers. Conspiracies.
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Anne Boleyn: History, fiction and zombies. Two new novels about Boleyn, and what they tell us about history.
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Spies, Sex & Stalin: The Dark Truth About the Cambridge Five
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Agent Zo, the Polish Resistance, and Stalin’s Betrayal of Poland | Clare Mulley
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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The Most Dangerous Lying Memoirs in History? Kim Philby, Albert Speer & the Art of the Cover-Up
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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The Death of Trotsky | Stalin, Espionage and Assassination – with Josh Ireland
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Murder or Suicide? The Cold War Death of Jan Masaryk. A Buffs in Brief special
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Sex, Mysticism and Revolution: Rasputin at the Court of the Tsar
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Was This the Worst Peace Treaty Ever? | Brest-Litovsk (1918)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Buffs in Brief #2 — The Reichstag Fire (27 February 1933). Conspiracy or Opportunity?
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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OTD: Stalin thrown under a bus by Khrushchev. A Buffs in Brief special #1
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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The Baltic Crusades: The Teutonic Knights and the Birth of Europe’s Most Dangerous Frontier
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Secret Nazi Scientist Programme that Helped Build America
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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The Day Capitalism Broke: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 & the Road to Hitler
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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🎆 The History Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026 🎆
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings PART 2
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings — Part 1
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Nuremberg: Day 1...20.11.1945. The Days that Changed the World
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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The Days that Changed the World: 23 August, 1939. The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Inside Operation Biting: The History Book Buffs read Max Hastings.
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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The horrors of U-boat warfare: the books that inspired Wolfpack by Roger Moorhouse.
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Did books defeat the Soviet Empire? The History Book Buffs read The CIA Book Club by Charlie English.
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Tunisgrad. Was this the battle that changed the course of WW2?
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Storm of Steel and All Quiet on the Western Front: A WW1 classics showdown
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The Siege: Terror and the SAS in the London Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980.
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Which books shaped our lives? The HistoryBookBuffs take the 3 Book Challenge.
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Tanks, Blitzkriegs and Battlefields.
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why Did Millions Follow Hitler? Reading The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees.
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Is this the bloodiest war of the Twentieth Century? Reviewing Korea, War Without End, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman
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May 29, 2025 |
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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
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May 15, 2025 |
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RAIN OF RUIN - Firebombing, nuclear weapons and the ethics of war.
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May 01, 2025 |