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August 17, 2025

Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines by Peter Mansoor

August 17, 2025/ David Murphy
Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines by Peter Mansoor

A new assessment of the controversial WWII general

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August 17, 2025/ David Murphy/
Douglas MacArthur, MacArthur, Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines, World War Two, Second World War, Pacific Theater, Peter Mansoor, history, military history
June 30, 2025

Three Revolutions by Simon Hall

June 30, 2025/ Joe Spivey
Three Revolutions by Simon Hall

An account of three pivotal political turning points

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June 30, 2025/ Joe Spivey/
Three Revolutions, history, political history, Simon Hall
May 28, 2025

Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm

May 28, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm

A new study of Plato’s relationship with the ruler he attempted to instruct.

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May 28, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
James Romm, Plato, philosophy, Plato and the Tyrant, Dionysius II, history, ancient history, Ancient Greece
May 14, 2025

The Price of Victory by N. A. M. Rodger

May 14, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Price of Victory by N. A. M. Rodger

The author’s monumental three-volume history of the British Navy concludes

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May 14, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
N. A. M. Rodger, The Price of Victory, history, British hisory, Naval history, WWII
May 01, 2025

Pompey the Great by Lee Frantanuono

May 01, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Pompey the Great by Lee Frantanuono

A new biography of ancient Rome’s famed military wunderkind

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May 01, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Lee Frantanuono, Pompey the Great, Pompey the Great: The Roman Alexander, Alexander the Great, history, Roman history, ancient Rome
April 27, 2025

The Einstein Vendetta

April 27, 2025/ Joe Spivey
The Einstein Vendetta

The true story of a Nazi-era murder

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April 27, 2025/ Joe Spivey/
The Einstein Vendetta, Thomas Harding, WWII history, history
April 24, 2025

Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey

April 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey

A new book excavates the kinder, gentler side of Vikings

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April 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Forgotten Vikings, Alex Harvey, Vikings, Viking history, history
March 20, 2025

Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

March 20, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

A big and decidedly unconventional history of the Renaissance’s darker sides

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March 20, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer, history, Renaissance Italy, Renaissance history, Machiavelli
March 18, 2025

Inside the Stargazer's Palace by Violet Moller

March 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Inside the Stargazer's Palace by Violet Moller

A lively, personality-driven history of the birth of science

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March 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Violet Muller, Inside the Stargazer's Palace, science, history, history of science, Tycho Brahe, Violet Moller
March 17, 2025

The Franklin Stove by Joyce E. Chaplin

March 17, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Franklin Stove by Joyce E. Chaplin

A history of the broader context of Benjamin Franklin’s famous invention

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March 17, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution, Joyce E. Chaplin, The Franklin stove, Benjamin Franklin, history, American history
March 12, 2025

Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto

March 12, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto

From the author of “The Island at the Center of the World,” a history of the beginnings of New York

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March 12, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Taking Manhattan, Russell Shorto, history, American history, colonial history
February 23, 2025

Den of Spies by Craig Unger

February 23, 2025/ Joe Spivey
Den of Spies by Craig Unger

A new history of the negotiations that put Ronald Reagan in power

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February 23, 2025/ Joe Spivey/
Den of Spies, Craig Unger, history, American history, President Reagan
January 25, 2025

Lawless Republic by Josiah Osgood

January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Lawless Republic by Josiah Osgood

A new history of Cicero taking advantage of political chaos to further his career

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January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Lawless Republic, Josiah Osgood, Cicero, Catiline Conspiracy, history, ancient history, Roman history
January 24, 2025

The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark

January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark

The tumultuous lives of Tudor ladies-in-waiting

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January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
The Waiting Game, Nicola Clark, history, Tudor history
January 10, 2025

Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough

January 10, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough

A new history of the social side of the Vikings

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January 10, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Embers of the Hands, Eleanor Barraclough, Vikings, Viking Age, history, European history
January 08, 2025

Dark Brilliance by Paul Strathern

January 08, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Dark Brilliance by Paul Strathern

A personality-driven new look at the Age of Reason

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January 08, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Dark Brilliance, Paul Strathern, The Age of Reason, history, European history
November 29, 2024

Dear Unknown Friend by Alexis Peri

November 29, 2024/ Siddharth Handa
Dear Unknown Friend by Alexis Peri

What a Cold War pen-pal program reveals about its era

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November 29, 2024/ Siddharth Handa/
Dear Unknown Friend, Alexis Peri, history, American hsitory, American history, Soviet history
November 21, 2024

The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

November 21, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

A fresh new history of the fall of the Romanos

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November 21, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Last Tsar, Nicholas II, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Russian history, history, the Romanovs
November 11, 2024

The Power and the Glory by Adrian Tinniswood

November 11, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Power and the Glory by Adrian Tinniswood

Stories of English country house life before WWI tore it to pieces

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November 11, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Adrian Tinniswood, The Power and the Glory, history, English history, the English country house
November 10, 2024

Republic by Alice Hunt

November 10, 2024/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku
Republic by Alice Hunt

A new history of England’s kingless period

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November 10, 2024/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku/
Republic, Oliver Cromwell, British history, history, Alice Hunt
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