This is a shortened version of a talk delivered to The Sussex Coin Club, 9.9.21 (formerly Worthing Coin Club) Collecting can be traced...

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

Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 Max Hastings

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)

1913 Charles Emmerson Irish History for Dummies Mike Cronin For other books used in preparation for talk please see earlier booklist

The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman The War That Ended Peace Margaret MacMillan The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark

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

Nineteenth Century Britain Harvie & Matthew Victorious Century David Cannadine Revolting Terry Deary And separately,...

You may be interested in this relatively new book on Bismarck and the war with France: Bismarck's War by Rachel Chrastil

The key text for detailed account of 1848, Year of Revolutions, is Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring. A truly magisterial account...

Forgotten Continent Michael Reid Americanos John Chasteen Small Earthquakes (British in South America) Shafik Meghji

FRANCE France John Julius Norwich Napoleon the Great Andrew Roberts EUROPE The Pursuit of Power 1815-1914 Richard J Evans...

India after Gandhi Ramachandra Guha Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall The World in Conflict Tim Marshall...

We have mentioned in recent weeks the novels of Abir Mukherjee, so here is the current up to date list of his detective novels set in the...

Crisis of The Raj (Indian Mutiny) Wayne Broehl Empire Jeremy Paxman A Cultural History of The British Empire John...

THE HONOURABLE COMPANY JOHN KEAY RAJ LAWRENCE JAMES EMPIRE NIALL FERGUSON THE BRITISH IN INDIA DAVID GILMOUR