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Warhead

Featured Excerpt: Warhead

October 7, 2025

Warhead analyzes the new science behind warfare

Dalas Texans

Featured Excerpt: A Big Mess in Texas

October 6, 2025

by David Fleming In A Big Mess in Texas, David Fleming reveals the incredible, untold true story of the 1952 Dallas Texans—the most dysfunctional team in the craziest season in NFL history. Read on for a featured excerpt. The NFL? Have You Gone Completely Crazy? IN A VOICE DESCRIBED AS A PARTLY MUFFLED ROAR, Clarence […]

Women in orchestra

The Band Played on at Auschwitz

October 3, 2025

Author Anne Sebba shares with The History Reader the horrifying story of the 45 women forced to play music in an Auschwitz concentration camp orchestra.

Berlin Wall

Featured Excerpt: Confronting Evil

October 2, 2025

by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer An instant New York Times bestseller, Confronting Evil by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer is a dramatic face-off with the good, evil, and the worst people who ever lived. Read on for a featured excerpt focusing on Vladimir Putin. Chapter Eleven: Vladimir Putin Dresden, East Germany December 5, 1989 […]

New Books to Fall for: October 2025

September 30, 2025

We’ve fallen hard for these history books publishing this October. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Siddharth Kara’s The Zorg, the heartbreaking story about the slave ship that sparked the U.K.’s abolitionist movement, to Tom Clavin’s Running Deep, the true story of the deadliest submarine in WWII, grab a cup of apple cider and immerse yourself in […]

Celebrating Black History Month in 2021

February 1, 2021

by The History Reader Black History Month was originally created half a century after the abolition of slavery in order to celebrate the history and […] ...

Golden Age Globe-Trotting

January 27, 2021

by Jessica Fellowes The Golden Age of detective fiction, the era of classic murder mystery novels, is defined as those written in the 1920s and […] ...

Remembering the Stories of the Holocaust

January 27, 2021

by The History Reader January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. In Israel, the day is also known as Yom […] ...

The Smoking Gun: Was MI5 Aware of a Plot to Kill King Edward VIII?

January 26, 2021

by Alexander Larman Someone once said that there are only three really enjoyable parts of creating a book: the first royalty payment, the second royalty […] ...