For those of your struggling to find the last few Christmas gifts – here is a short list of my favourite History Books of 2011…
Anna Reid – Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44.
Max Hastings – All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
Ian Kershaw – The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
Rodric Braithwaite – Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
Robert Gerwarth – Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms
All good – all very much worth reading, and giving..
Happy Christmas