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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 […]

Stephen Pressfield’s A Man At Arms

February 19, 2021

If you enjoy Stephen Pressfield’s books then you will certainly be glad to hear about his newest addition. We at historyaddicted like Pressfield quite a […] ...

Daniel Boone and the Bloody Struggle for America’s Frontier

February 19, 2021

by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Daniel Boone was too far away to hear his oldest boy’s screams as the tall Indian tore out the […] ...

The Truth Behind “Ceasar’s Wife Must Be Above All Suspicion”

February 18, 2021

In the life of Julius Caesar of Plutarch, there is a story that, due to ridiculous rumors, Julius Caesar divorced his wife (Pompeia). Caesar said […] ...

The Practice and Value of Retaliatory Street Renaming

February 10, 2021

by Deirdre Mask In the early weeks of the COVID pandemic, several members of Congress introduced a bill to name the D.C. street in front […] ...