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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April 22, 2026
Anne Boleyn: History, fiction and zombies. Two new novels about Boleyn, and what they tell us about history.
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Tudor history—and a revenge story with a twist. Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse compare two very different novels about Anne Boleyn: one grounded in meticulous research, the other wildly inventive—...
April 1, 2026
Spies, Sex & Stalin: The Dark Truth About the Cambridge Five
BUY THE BOOK: https://amzn.eu/d/0eHvoNPP Were the Cambridge Five glamorous rebels… or something far darker? In this episode of History Book Buffs , Antonia Senior joins Roger Moorhouse from Cambridge itself to unpack the real...
March 25, 2026
Agent Zo, the Polish Resistance, and Stalin’s Betrayal of Poland | Clare Mulley
How did one woman become one of the most extraordinary figures in the Polish Resistance? In this powerful episode of History Book Buffs , Antonia Senior speaks to award-winning historian and biographer Claire Mulley about her...
March 18, 2026
The Most Dangerous Lying Memoirs in History? Kim Philby, Albert Speer & the Art of the Cover-Up
What happens when two of the 20th century’s most notorious men tell their own stories? In this episode of History Book Buffs , Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse dive into two of the most seductive, slippery and deeply unreli...
March 12, 2026
The Death of Trotsky | Stalin, Espionage and Assassination – with Josh Ireland
In this episode of History Book Buffs , Antonia Senior talks to historian Josh Ireland about his gripping book The Death of Trotsky , which tells the extraordinary story of how Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin hunted down his gr...
March 10, 2026
Murder or Suicide? The Cold War Death of Jan Masaryk. A Buffs in Brief special
In March 1948, Jan Masaryk , the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and son of the country's founding president, was found dead beneath the window of the Foreign Ministry in Prague. Was it suicide ? Or was it murder ordered b...