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Life and Death in Berlin: Discovering the City Through the Zeitzeugenbörse

by Sinclair McKay

Wcag Heading These were children who had known only a world of violence.…
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Unknown History: The Siege of Berlin in 1948

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Strangling of Berlin

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: A Battle of Wits in Post-War Berlin

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Great Berlin Power Struggle

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Russia’s Secret Revolutionaries

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: Sleeping with the Enemy

by Giles Milton

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Unknown History: The Americans Arrive in Berlin

by Giles Milton

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Researching The Living and the Lost

by Ellen Feldman

WCAG Heading It’s a truism that writers are always squirreling away random observations, eavesdropped…
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My Time On the Set With Marlene Dietrich

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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading by Rory MacLean Why are we drawn to certain cities?…
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Berlin

Featured Excerpt: Tom Paine’s War

Painting of Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos. National Portrait Gallery (London). Public domain.

by Jack Kelly

In 1776, Tom Paine's words—and the determination of American patriots—allowed our nation to…
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Three New History Books to Read This January

January 2026 Upcoming History Books
With a new year comes a new set of history books publishing this month. Whether you've…
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Featured Excerpt: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

Auschwitz gate

by Anne Sebba

An instant USA Today bestseller, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz …
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Featured Excerpt: JFK: Public, Private, Secret

Jackie Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12, 1953.

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

J. Randy Taraborrelli shares with The History Reader an excerpt from his…
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Featured Excerpt: The Sea Captain’s Wife

Neptune's Car Clipper Ship.

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

In The Sea Captain's Wife, New York Times bestselling author Tilar J.…
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The Curious Case of Nuremberg’s Hangman

View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 1945. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia.

by Tim Queeney

In his book Rope, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and…
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Featured Excerpt: Gemini

stronaut James Lovell is photographed inside his Gemini spacecraft during the Gemini-12 mission

by Jeffrey Kluger

Named by Time Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of fall…
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Featured Excerpt: Progress

Ancient civilization

by Samuel Miller McDonald

In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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