Vincent Cronin (1924–2011)

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1. Vincent Cronin

   Author of Napoleon, Catherine, Empress of all the Russias, The Florentine Renaissance

2. Antonia Fraser

   Author of Mary Queen of Scots, The Weaker Vessel, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men

3. Christopher Hibbert

   Author of The Days of the French Revolution, Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes, Cities and Civilisations

4. Jan Morris

   Author of Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, The World: Travels 1950-2000, The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

5. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great, The Romanovs: the Final Chapter

6. Boies Penrose

   Author of Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620

7. Nancy Mitford

   Author of Madame de Pompadour, The Sun King, Frederick the Great

8. A.R. Burn

   Author of The Persian Wars, The Lyric Age

9. G. R. Elton

   Author of England Under the Tudors, Reformation Europe 1517-1559

10. Richard Barber

    Author of Epics of the Middle Ages, Legends of the Grail

11. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War, Coffin for King Charles: The Trial of Charles I

12. John Rigby Hale

    Author of Renaissance Europe, 1480-1520

13. F. W. Walbank

    Author of The Hellenistic Age

14. A. J. P. Taylor

    Author of English History, 1914-1945, The Course of German History (Routledge Classics)

15. Antony Beevor

    Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945

16. Joan Haslip

    Author of The Crown of Mexico, Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty

17. Edward Gibbon

    Author of The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Vol. 7: The Normans in Italy and the Crusades, The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Vol. 8: The fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome

18. W. Bruce Lincoln

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

19. Roger Hudson

    Author of The Folio Book of Days, The Grand Tour

20. Alfred Cobban

    Author of A History of Modern France: Volume 1: Old Regime and Revolution 1715-1799 (Penguin History), History of Modern France: Volume 2: From the First Empire to the Second Empire, 1799-1871 (Pelican Books), A History of Modern France: Volume 3: France of the Republics 1871-1962