Niall Ferguson

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1. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

3. Ian Kershaw

   Author of Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis, Death in the Bunker

4. Michael Lewis

   Author of Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

5. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram

6. Richard J. Evans

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

7. Tom Holland

   Author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

8. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

9. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

   Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

10. Robert Cowley

    Author of What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

11. Antony Beevor

    Author of The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Christmas at Stalingrad (Pocket Penguins)

12. 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

13. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Bastille Falls

14. E. J. Hobsbawm

    Author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, The age of revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Empire: 1875-1914

15. Alistair Horne

    Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

16. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, Monsoon: the Indian Ocean and the future of American power

17. Ron Chernow

    Author of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

18. Hew Strachan

    Author of The First World War, The First World War. Volume 1, To Arms

19. Tim Harford

    Author of The undercover economist : Exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car, The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

20. Robert Graves

    Author of Goodbye to All That, Caligula (Pocket Penguins 70's)