The 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature will be awarded tonight (Nov 20.)
The list is down to 3 finalists from a shortlist of 6.
(
http://www.mcgill.ca/cundillprize)
I read one of the shortlisted books earlier this year that did not make it to the final selection - Lynne Olson -
Those Angry Days Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, which I thought was excellent.
I have one of the finalists on my TBR - Fredrik Logevall -
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Vietnam during the Truman and Eisenhower years)
I also have another shortlisted book that didn't make it to the final list on my TBR
Christian Caryl -
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (about the 1979 Iranian revolution)
Has anyone read any of the other books shortlisted for the 2013 Cundill Prize?
Anne Applebaum -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (finalist)
Christopher Clark -
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914 (finalist)
Tom Reiss -
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo