Absolute War

Chris Bellamy

Defeat Into Victory

William Slim

Bomber

Mark Whittaker, Tony Bower-Miles

The Making of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr

Edinburgh

Michael Fry

Ark of the Liberties

Ted Widmer

China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet

Abrahm Lustgarten

Empires and Barbarians

Peter Heather

The Great Wall

Julia Lovell

Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theatre and Jazz, Film and Poetry

Peter Demetz

Faberge’s Eggs

Toby Faber

The Longest Siege: Tobruk, The Battle That Saved North Africa

Robert Lyman