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...

Savage Continent Keith Lowe After Hitler Michael Jones Saving a Continent Charles Mee

1945: Victory in The West Peter Caddick-Adams Russia Martin Sixsmith Forged in War (Russian military history) Mark Galeotti The Fall of Berlin (magazine format) Bonner Publications Hitler's Last Day Richard Darcie The Pacific Hugh Ambrose Hiroshima Nagasaki Paul Ham

War in the West James Holland Parliament Vol 2 Chris Bryant Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare

Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie published in paperback by Vintage

In Hitler's Munich by M Brenner The Nazis by P Rowland The Death of Democracy by B Carte Hett The Third Walpurgis Night by K Kraus The Third Reich by M Burleigh Hitler by B Simms Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees The Rise of The Third Reich in Bringing History to Life (magazine format) [May only be available in UK -unsure]

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

The Great Depression Robert McElvaine The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck (the great novel)

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

Book: Anything Goes (USA in The Twenties) by Lucy Moore) Drama: Seven Dials (dramatisation of Agatha Christie's novel of same name)

Vertigo [Weimar Germany] Harald Jahner (Latest, and great, book) Russian Civil Warf David Bullock (Osprey Series)

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