Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

Donald Sassoon

iPod Therefore I Am

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-first

By Frank Trentmann

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)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

From the Black Sea to Xinjiang

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By Peter Frankopan

Andrew Lycett

Half The World Away

The Americas: The History of a Hemisphere

By Felipe Fernández Armesto

John Keay

Soft Power

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

By Sven Beckert

Lisa Jardine

The Half-Open Window

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

By Timothy Brook

Brenda Maddox

Reading the Rocks

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

By Martin J S Rudwick

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

Paul Johnson

Ideas in Action

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

John Gray

Under Western Eyes

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West

By Anthony Pagden

Brian Young

What It Is To Be Human

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

By John Burrow

Sujit Saraf

The Shock of the Bomb

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

By David Edgerton

Andrew Roberts

The Emperor of Spin

Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, 1803–1815

By Charles Esdaile

Raymond Seitz

Milestones of Diplomacy

Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

Jason Goodwin

Storm in A Teacup

Tea: The Drink that Changed the World

By John Griffiths

Michael Burleigh

A Churchillian Task

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

By Andrew Roberts

Kathleen Burk

Follow the Money

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt

By Kwasi Kwarteng