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 29, 2026
Hitler's Death: Bodies. Bunkers. Conspiracies.
On 30 April 1945 , as the Red Army closed in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler died in his bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. In this On This Day episode, Roger Moorhouse and Antonia Senior reconstruct Hitler’s final hours—his physi...
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...