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Unknown History: The Siege of Berlin in 1948

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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The Truly Legendary Queen Olga of Kyiv

by Nancy Marie Brown

At a bend in the river Dnipro, where a stream flows in…
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Unknown History: The Strangling of Berlin

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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The Secret Life of Arsenic

by Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.

Quick, think of a poison… There’s a good chance that you came…
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Unknown History: A Battle of Wits in Post-War Berlin

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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Diana Churchill: Winston’s Special ‘Chum’

by Rachel Trethewey

As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine…
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Unknown History: Churchill’s Iron Curtain

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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Unknown History: The Great Berlin Power Struggle

by Giles Milton

We teamed up with the Unknown History podcast on Quick and Dirty Tips to bring you…
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Celebrating the Holidays: 15 Books History Buffs Will Love

by The History Reader

While the holidays are primarily a time to reconnect with family and…
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The Churchill Sisters as Politicians

by Rachel Trethewey

Winston Churchill dreamed of establishing a political dynasty that passed from father to…
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World History

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

dd The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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War and Reconciliation

war

by Tom Clavin

dd Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

dd In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the…
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Crary of the North…and South

Albert

by Tom Clavin

dd  It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the…
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Meet the White House Plumbers

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

dd by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story…
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A Long Journey Home

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

dd During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to…
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The Windsors at War

Duke

by Alexander Larman

dd dd When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that…
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Old Houses of the West

Where

by Sandra Dallas

dd dd Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her…
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