Christopher Andrew

The Big Chill

The Cold War: A World History

By Odd Arne Westad

Simon Heffer

Viral News

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By Laura Spinney

Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

Simon Heffer

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

Richard Overy

Breaches of Civilisation

The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945

By Heinrich August Winkler (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Michael Burleigh

The State We’re In

The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat

By Roger Scruton

Richard Overy

The Terrors of Totalitarianism

Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century

By Tzvetan Todorov (Trans David Bellos)

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

Dominic Sandbrook

Pizza Politics

Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business

By James Harding

M R D Foot

‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

Caroline Moorehead

The Innocent Dead

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War

By Hugo Slim

Sujit Saraf

The Shock of the Bomb

The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History since 1900

By David Edgerton

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

Raymond Seitz

Milestones of Diplomacy

Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

Michael Burleigh

A Churchillian Task

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

By Andrew Roberts

Robert Bickers

Beyond the Great Wall

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

By Odd Arne Westad

Jane Ridley

On the Precipice

1913: The World before the Great War

By Charles Emmerson