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🎆 The History Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026 🎆
Happy New Year from History Book Buffs! After our 21 Days of Christmas Book Gifts, we’re back with a special episode looking ahead to the most exciting history and historical fiction books coming out in 2026.
From Soviet assassins and Baltic crusades to Cromwells, Bolsheviks, Weimar Germany and the Cambridge Five, this episode is packed with bookish fireworks. These are the titles we’re genuinely excited about as historians, writers, reviewers, and unapologetic history obsessives.
📚 Books discussed include:
The Death of Trotsky by Josh Ireland
Rasputin by Antony Beevor
The Black Cross: A…
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