2014 Cundill Prize shortlist

[bfisher]

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.

[JSWolf]

The problem is that some publishers are releasing new ePub as ePub 3 and Kobo is taking epub 3 and converting them to kepub. So if it's a new eBook, there's a chance it could be sold as kepub from Kobo.

[Xanthe]

Thanks for posting that list. The one on the Congo looks very interesting.

[bfisher]

It was published first in Dutch, and has been available in French for several years. I was really glad to see that it is now available in English.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is that some publishers are releasing new ePub as ePub 3 and Kobo is taking epub 3 and converting them to kepub. So if it's a new eBook, there's a chance it could be sold as kepub from Kobo.

Thanks, I'll watch that in the future. If I had realized, I would probably have got it at amazon.

[rollei]

Great list! Some books here worth checking out.