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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 […]

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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 […]

The Two Faces of Benedict Arnold

May 17, 2021

by Jack Kelly Benedict Arnold was one of the Revolutionary War’s most aggressive and courageous soldiers. It’s possible that without him, American patriots would have […] ...

The Long Gray Line: All-New Audio!

May 10, 2021

by The History Reader In the first unabridged audio version of The Long Gray Line, author Rick Atkinson has recorded a new foreword, and has recorded […] ...

Kidnapped on the Frontier

April 22, 2021

by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Daniel Boone heard the piercing shrieks coming from the river and recognized them as only a parent could. He […] ...

Leszek Kolakowski: “Totalitarian Regimes Seek Control Of Human Memory”

April 15, 2021

Ex-Communist Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski once said “we learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know […] ...