Edward Crankshaw

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1. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great, Dreadnought

2. Edward Crankshaw

   Author of Shadow of the Winter Palace, Bismarck, Maria Theresa

3. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914, The First Salute, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

4. Frederic Morton

   Author of A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889, Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914, The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait

5. C. V. Wedgwood

   Author of The Thirty Years War, The King's Peace, 1637-1641, William the Silent

6. W. Bruce Lincoln

   Author of The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians, In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War

7. Antonia Fraser

   Author of Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, King Charles II

8. A. J. P. Taylor

   Author of English History, 1914-1945, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918, Bismarck: The Man and Statesman

9. Alan Moorehead

   Author of The Blue Nile, The Russian Revolution

10. William L. Shirer

    Author of Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, The Nightmare Years 1930-1940 (20th Century Journey : Memoir of a Life and the Times, Vol 2), The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

11. William Manchester

    Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972 (Volume One)

12. Robert B. Asprey

    Author of Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I

13. Harrison Evans Salisbury

    Author of The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad, Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917

14. Henri Troyat

    Author of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy

15. Steven Runciman

    Author of The Fall of Constantinople 1453, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto)

16. Edmond Taylor

    Author of The fall of the dynasties; the collapse of the old order, 1905-1922

17. Anthony Summers

    Author of The File on the Tsar

18. Richard Nixon

    Author of RN : The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Beyond Peace, Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World

19. David Remnick

    Author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

20. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The European discovery of America, Christopher Columbus, Mariner