Cundhill History Prize 2024

Cundill History Prize 'which showcases the very best that’s being written in history.'

Updated November 5, 2024
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
DuVal, Kathleen.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE * "An essential American history" (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Bass, Gary J.
Paper Book
ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD WINNER * MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE FINALIST * BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE LONGLIST * CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE FINALIST * A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals--the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg ACCLAIMED AS...
The Lumumba plot : the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination
Reid, Stuart A.
Paper Book
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- The New Yorker,...
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Joyce, Patrick.
Paper Book
"I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book...there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up." --Annie Proulx *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* A landmark history of the peasant...

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