Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

Richard Overy

War and Progress

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

By Michael Howard

Paul Legg

Don’t Be Fooled

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

By Martin Evans and John Phillips

Caroline Moorehead

Brutal Truths

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

By Joanna Bourke

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

Donald Rayfield

The Russian Dispossessed

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

By Orlando Figes

The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s

By Hiroaki Kuromiya

V S Naipaul

From ‘A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling’ By V S Naipaul

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

Jane Ridley

Day of the Spinster

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

By Virginia Nicholson

Lucy Lethbridge

Upstairs, Downstairs

Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

By Alison Light

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

Paul Addison

A Nation of Shoppers

A History of Modern Britain

By Andrew Marr

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

Piers Brendon

Never the Twain Shall Meet

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony

By Julia Boyd

Brendan Simms

Lives Go On

The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia – The Reckoning

By Ed Vulliamy

David Cesarani

Dear Führer…

Letters to Hitler

By Henrik Eberle (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall; English edition edited &introduced by Victoria Harris)

Nina Bawden

To Safety By Sea

Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children From Britain

By Jessica Mann

Paul Bew

North and South

Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s

By Diarmaid Ferriter

David Gelber

Behind Closed Doors

Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day

By Deborah Cohen

Robert Colls

Toil & Trouble

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family

By Richard Benson

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010

By Selina Todd