Traitor King Andrew Lownie The Crown in Crisis Alexander Larman Abdication: The Rise & Fall of Edward VIII Mark Hitchens That Woman (Wallis Simpson) Anne Sebba
The Spanish Civil War Paul Preston The Battle for Spain Antony Beevor The Spanish Civil War Helen Graham El Generalisimo:Franco Giles Tremlett Franco Paul Preston
Iran: A Very Short Introduction Ali M Ansari Iran A Modern History Abbas Amanat The History of Iran [a chronology] Clement Hall and Rivers Editors Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski Revolutionary Iran Michael Axworthy
The Twentieth Century RH Mottram Echoes of The Great War Ed J Munson Britain in the 1920s Fiona McDonald The Shortest History of Europe John Hirst The Inter War Years Robert Freeman (pamphlet sized) Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894-1924 Michael Lynch (a student's book) Russia Martin Sixsmith Forged in War Mark Galeotti (Military history of Russia) The Pursuit of Italy David Gilmour Russian History Geoffrey Hosking Vertigo H
Imperial Germany 1850-1918 Edgar Feuchtwanger Ring of Steel (Dual Alliance 1914-18) Alexander Watson Kaiser Wilhelm II Christopher Clark (Key Biography) A Brief History of Germany Jeremy Black The Shortest History of Germany James Hawes
The following are the books I Have principally used in the preparation for the Lockdown Lecture on 1/12/25 Nicholas and Alexandra Robert Massie Reaction and Revolution 1894-1924 Michael Lynch ( more of a text book) Forged in War Mark Galeotti (Russia and War in general) Putin and The Return of History M & D Sixsmith (Putin and Ukraine) Russia Martin Sixsmith (History of Russia)
The Voyage of The Beagle Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Charles Darwin Short essay in Sebag Montefiore's Titans of History Guide to Down House National Trust Freud for Beginners Appignanesi & Zarate Freud Anthony Storr
Populism Michael Burleigh How Democracies Die Levitsky & Ziblatt The End of Enlightenment Richard Whatmore Twilight of Democracy Anne Applebaum Frontlash/Backlash Jeffrey Alexander My recommendations, but NB Alexander's book requires careful reading, this is not a light bedtime read. On Weimar, you might like to have details of two new books Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jahner Fateful Hours: The Collapse of The Weimar Republic by Volker Ulric
Nationalism Steven Grosby Socialism Michael Newman I also mentioned in this week's lecture a book on the first Labour Government in Britain in 1924: Wild Men by David Torrance TWO BOOKS REFERRED TO IN NEXT MONDAY'S LECTURE FOR LOCKDOWN The Library Pettegree & der Weduwen The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart
The Shortest History of Italy Ross King The Pursuit of Italy David Gilmour Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification Christopher Hibbert Cavour Denis Mack Smith The Nation of the Risorgimento Alberto Banti ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Iron Kingdom Christopher Clark Imperial; Germany 1850-1918 Edgar Feuchtwanger Bismarck Volker Ullrich Bismarck Edgar Feuchtwanger A Scandal in Konigsberg `Christo
