🎆 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 History of the Baltic Crusades by Alexander Pluszkowski

• The House of Cromwell by Miranda Malins

• Red Dawn Over China by Frank Dikötter

• White River Crossing by Ian McGuire

• Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer

• The House of Boleyn by Tracy Borman

• Stalin’s Apostles by Antonia Senior (out April 2026)

We talk serious history, brilliant storytelling, fresh angles, and why these books matter now—from espionage and ideology to power, betrayal, and the human cost of history.

If you love:
✔️ narrative history
✔️ Cold War & Soviet history
✔️ Tudor, Civil War & medieval Europe
✔️ historical fiction that actually knows its facts
✔️ smart, opinionated book chat

…this episode is for you.

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