Piers Brendon

That Was the Year That Was

On the Cusp: Days of ’62

By David Kynaston

Alex Von Tunzelmann

Rebel Music

1956: The World in Revolt

By Simon Hall

Simon Heffer

Through Ice & Snow

Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble

By Antony Beevor

David Stafford

Zero Hour

Germany 1945: From War to Peace

By Richard Bessel

Anton La Guardia

1979 and All That

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

By Lawrence Freedman

David Cesarani

The Root of Conflict

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

By Benny Morris

Adam LeBor

Change by the Sea

Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 – The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance

By Giles Milton

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Red Hot Rake

Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944–45

By James Holland

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Fall of Rome

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944

By Rick Atkinson

Richard Overy

War in Asia

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45

By Max Hastings

Richard Overy

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

Norman Stone

The Hour of Their Death

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By Christopher Clark

Donald Rayfield

Blood on the Streets

Moscow, 1937

By Karl Schlögel (Translated by Rodney Livingstone)

Jane Ridley

‘The Eve of Horrible Things’

By Mark Bostridge

Jane Ridley

On the Precipice

1913: The World before the Great War

By Charles Emmerson