The 2014 Cundill Prize shortlist was announced today:
http://www.cundillprize.com/
http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/s...erature-239200
Excellent candidates, but so were the 2013 shortlist books, so I had high expectations for this year.
Gary Bass-The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide (Knopf)
Read it last year; it won the Lionel Gelber Prize and was a Pulitzer (general non-fiction) finalist. A great book about the genesis of Bangladesh
David Brion Davis-The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Knopf)
The conclusion of 50 years work on the history of slavery - He won the History Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture in 1967, and a National Book Award for The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution in 1976. Looking forward to reading this.
Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy-The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press)
Read it last month, not bad; it had some interesting contrarian arguments. It was a finalist for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize 2014
Richard Overy-The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 (Allen Lane)
Just starting to read this. It looks very promising. Also a finalist for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize 2014
Notes: Overy's "The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945" is actually an abridged version of "The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945" that for some peculiar reason seems to be nearly three times as expensive, at least the amazon.ca prices
. Warning, after I bought The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 at Kobo I realized it was a kepub
David Van Reybrouck-Congo: The Epic History Of A People (Fourth Estate)
I believe this is a translation of his 2010 book Congo Een geschiedenis. Adding this to my TBR, looks very interesting
Geoffrey Wawro-A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (Basic Books)
On my TBR; I don't often see material in English on the end of the Hapsburg Empire.