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New Books to Fall for: October 2025
We've fallen hard for these history books publishing this October. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Siddharth Kara's…
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The New King: George I of Great Britain
by Peter Ackroyd
WCAG Heading In the following excerpt from Revolution, Peter Ackroyd transports readers to…
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The Smoking Gun: Was MI5 Aware of a Plot to Kill King Edward VIII?
by Alexander Larman
WCAG Heading Someone once said that there are only three really enjoyable parts…
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Collecting the Treasures of the World
by Elsa Hart
wcag heading In 1714, the gardener and caretaker Edmund Howard supervised his employer’s…
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Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon
WCAG Headingby Giles Milton Cecil Vandepeer Clarke viewed his caravan with the sort of affection that…
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Eoin MacNeill: Building an Army for the Easter Rising
WCAG Headingby Tim Pat Coogan ‘MacNeill’ was Eoin MacNeill, the ostensible leader of the Irish Volunteers,…
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Operation Market Garden: Arnham, September 17–21, 1944
WCAG HeadingEditor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab On 17 September 1944, the Anglo-Canadian 21st…
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Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944
WCAG HeadingEditor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab The initial British–Canadian–American Normandy landings (Operation Neptune,…
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Guy Burgess: The Life of a Cold War Double Agent
by Andrew Lownie
WCAG Heading When Harold Macmillan, now the Prime Minister, visited the Soviet leader Nikita…
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Understanding the Language of War: Tony Blair and Winston Churchill
WCAG Headingby Mark Thompson It’s May 13, 1940. Winston Churchill has been prime minister of the…
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The Hopes of the Future
by Alexander Larman
by Alexandar Larman Princess Elizabeth II was in Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip, for just…
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Five New History Reads for April 2026
From fighting the British in colonial America to the corrupt wild west to the controversial old…
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The Search for the Madness Pill
by Justin Garson
In the 1960s, the field of psychiatry was at a standstill. While some…
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Winning the Earthquake
by Lorissa Rinehart
“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to…
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The Feather Wars
by James H. McCommons
From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
by Gwen Strauss
From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Once There Was a Town
by Jane Ziegelman
Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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The Escapes of David George and the Stories We Tell About Slavery
by Gregory E. O'Malley
by Gregory O'Malley When most people think of North American slavery, they most often think of…
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