Free, in-depth history guides on the major topics of modern history. Each guide combines narrative essays with embedded podcast episodes — read and listen together, or use the audio while you commute.
Available Guides
Weimar & Nazi Germany
The collapse of democracy, Hitler’s rise, and the Third Reich.
The Cold War
From the Grand Alliance to Gorbachev — the ideological struggle that shaped the modern world.
Stalin’s Soviet Union
Collectivisation, the Great Terror, and the Soviet war effort.
The British Empire
From the interwar mandate system to decolonisation and Suez.
The First World War
From the road to war in 1914 to the failed peace of 1919.
The Russian Revolution
The fall of the Tsar, 1917’s twin revolutions, and the Civil War.
The Holocaust
Persecution, genocide, the death camps, and the long shadow of memory.
The Vietnam War
From French Indochina to the fall of Saigon and America’s longest war.
Nazi Germany
Hitler’s rise, the Third Reich, and the road to total war and genocide.
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