Walter Russell Mead: God & Gold. Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World.

Niccolò Capponi: Victory of the West. The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto.

Michael Howard: The Franco-Prussian War. The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871.

Richard Overy: The Morbid Age. Britain Between the Wars.

John Lukacs: A Thread of Years.

Adam Zamoyski: Warsaw 1920. Lenin´s Failed Conquest of Europe.

Rana Mitter: A Bitter Revolution. China`s Struggle with the Modern World.

David McCullough: The Path Between the Seas. The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914.

Margaret MacMillan: Paris 1919. Six Months That Changes the World.

Frank Dikötter: The Tragedy of Liberation. A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-57.

Chris Scarre: Chronicle of the Roman Emperors. The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome.

David Reynolds: America, Empire of Liberty. A New History.

Neil MacGregor: Germany. Memories of a Nation.

Dominic Lieven: Russia Against Napoleon. The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace.

Robert K. Massie: Nicholas and Alexandra.

Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought. Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War.

Norman Davis: Vanished Kingdoms. The History of Half-Forgotten Europe.

John Julius Norwich: Byzantium. 1-3. The Early Centuries. The Apogee. The Decline and Fall.