The History Book Buffs
Welcome to The History Book Buffs. For reviews and chat about history books, fact and fiction, hosted by award-winning historian Roger Moorhouse, and novelist and critic Antonia Senior.
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Feb. 18, 2026
The Baltic Crusades: The Teutonic Knights and the Birth of Europe’s Most Dangerous Frontier
The Teutonic Knights. Pagan forests. Crusade-by-fire. And the medieval origin story behind modern Europe’s most volatile borderlands. Antonia Senior and historian Roger Moorhouse explore the Baltic Crusades through Alexander ...
Feb. 5, 2026
The Secret Nazi Scientist Programme that Helped Build America
What if the origins of America’s Cold War science boom — and even the Space Race — were built on the knowledge of Nazi scientists ? In this episode, Antonia Senior and historian Roger Moorhouse dive into the dark, fascinating...
Jan. 21, 2026
The Day Capitalism Broke: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 & the Road to Hitler
On 29 October 1929 , the world changed forever. As share prices collapsed, panic ripped through Wall Street, fortunes vanished in hours, and confidence in capitalism itself cracked. What began as a stock market crash in New Y...
Jan. 8, 2026
🎆 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 as...
Dec. 18, 2025
Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings PART 2
Welcome back to History Book Buffs for Part 2 of our 21 Days of Christmas Books series — a bumper festive episode packed with brilliant history (and a couple of cracking novels). I’m Antonia Senior — writer and journalist — j...
Dec. 3, 2025
Brilliant Books for Christmas Stockings — Part 1
🎄 21 Days of Christmas Book Gifts – Round-Up of the First 10 Books 🎄 In this special episode, we run through the first ten titles in our 21 Days of Christmas Book Gifts series — a curated collection of the very best in histor...