Adam Nicolson

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1. Simon Winchester

   Author of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, The Meaning of Everything

2. Elaine Pagels

   Author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

3. Patrick Leigh Fermor

   Author of A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, A Time to Keep Silence, The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

4. Adam Nicolson

   Author of God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar, Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides

5. Peter Ackroyd

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

6. Antonia Fraser

   Author of Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, King Charles II

7. Jonathan Raban

   Author of Bad Land: An American Romance, Passage to Juneau, Coasting

8. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

9. Diarmaid MacCulloch

   Author of The Reformation: A History, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

10. Eric Newby

    Author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Love and War in the Apennines, The Big Red Train Ride

11. Jaroslav Pelikan

    Author of Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages

12. Bart D. Ehrman

    Author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

13. Roy Adkins

    Author of Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle that Changed the World, The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo

14. Christopher Hibbert

    Author of Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes, George III: A Personal History, Nelson: A Personal History

15. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, The First Salute

16. Robert K. Massie

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

17. Alister E. McGrath

    Author of In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture

18. Benson Bobrick

    Author of Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

19. Nigel Nicolson

    Author of Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, Virginia Woolf, Long Life

20. Rick Atkinson

    Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle