What The Thunder Said

The Blitz: The British Under Attack

By Juliet Gardiner

Taking Sides

The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War

By Norman Stone

Dear Diary…

Nine Wartime Lives

By James Hinton

Our Secret History

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

Cosmopolitanauts

The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story

By Mary-Kay Wilmers

‘So You’re Back Then’

Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two

By Alan Allport

Ice-Cold in Coyoacan

Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky

By Bertrand Patenaude

Past Imperfect

The Uses and Abuses of History

By Margaret MacMillan

The Memory of Suffering

Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

By Neil Gregor

A Dirty Conflict

World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

By Laurence Rees

It Wasn’t That Bad

‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars

By Martin Pugh

At the Edge of War

Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis

By David Faber

A War Quartet

Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West

By Andrew Roberts

General Plan East

Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe

By Mark Mazower

A Short, Sharp War

Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe

By Adam Zamoyski

War and Progress

Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the Twentieth Century

By Michael Howard

War in Asia

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45

By Max Hastings

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

The Fury that Followed the Fall

After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift

By Giles MacDonogh

Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation

By David Stafford

‘Are We Beasts?’

The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945

By Jörg Friedrich

Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943

By Keith Lowe