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 classic work in English is 'A Savage War of Peace' by Alistair Horne. Some views you may feel are now dated. Or a general history of France such as France by Jeremy Black

Empire Niall Ferguson Freedom at Midnight Collins & Lapierre The Decline and Fall of the British Emp[ire Piers Brendon Shattered Lands Sam Dalrymple The Wild Men David Torrance Attlee dAVID hOWELL

Modern Japan Christopher Goto-Jones Histories of Nations (Japan paragraphs) Peter Furtado Victory against Japan 1944-45 (Ladybird Expert Series) James Holland Hiroshima Nagasaki Paul Ham China's War with Japan Rana Mitter Judgement at Tokyo Gary Bass Douglas MacArthur Arthur Herman

International Relations Paul Wilkinson Prosecuting the Powerful Steve Crawshaw The Search for Peace Douglas Hurd

Stalin R Service Stalin S Sebag Montefiore Red Famine A Applebaum The Gulag Archipelago A Solzhenitsyn The Great Terror R Conquest Stalinist Society M Edele The Death of Stalin S Fitzpatrick Stalinism G Gill (short, intensive, and brilliant)

The World according to Colour James Fox Colour New Horizons Series Dictionary of English Folkore Simpson & Roud Red Michael Pastoureau (and any of his writings on colour)

Poisoned Peace Gregor Dallas The Cold War Merrilyn Thomas The Cold War Priscilla Roberts

Exorcising Hitler Frederick Taylor Berlin Sinclair McKay Beyond the Wall Katja Hoyer Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum

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)