Norman Davies

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1. Norman Davies

   Author of Europe: A History, The Isles: A History, Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

2. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire

3. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

4. Ian Kershaw

   Author of Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

5. John Julius Norwich

   Author of A History of Venice, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Byzantium: The Apogee

6. Orlando Figes

   Author of Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, Crimea

7. Richard J. Evans

   Author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War

8. Antony Beevor

   Author of Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

9. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914

10. Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem: The Biography

11. halejohn-2

    Author of Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

12. Niall Ferguson

    Author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

13. Tony Judt

    Author of Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

14. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War, The King's Peace, 1637-1641, The King's War, 1641-1647

15. Max Hastings

    Author of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945, Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

16. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of London: The Biography, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

17. Adam Zamoyski

    Author of 1812: Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow, Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871, The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture

18. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

19. Martin Gilbert

    Author of The First World War: A Complete History

20. Alan Bullock

    Author of Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives