Hitler’s Foreign Executioners has been long listed for the Longman History Today Book of the Year…
It’s in very good company:
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World, Jacqueline Yallop (Atlantic Books)
The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England, Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge University Press)
The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England, Ethan H. Shagan (Cambridge University Press)
Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within, Christian Laes (Cambridge University Press)
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine, Brent D. Shaw (Cambridge University Press)
Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, Craig Koslofsky (Cambridge University Press)
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds (Cambridge University Press)
The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony 1845-1852, Ciaran O Murchadha (Continuum)
Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East, Mary Laven (Faber and Faber)
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey, Rachel Hewitt (Granta Books)
Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire, Maya Jasanoff (HarperPress)
The Castrato and His Wife, Helen Berry (Oxford University Press)
Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin, Timothy Johnston (Oxford University Press)
Managing the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain 1880-1939, Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (Oxford University Press)
Hitler’s Foreign Executioners: Europe’s Dirty Secret, Christopher Hale (The History Press)
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War, John Stubbs (Viking)
The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe, James Mark (Yale University Press)
Tibet: A History, Sam Van Schaik (Yale University Press)
Palmerston: A Biography, David Brown (Yale University Press)