Hessell-Tiltman Prize - Winners and Shortlist

Winners and Shortlist

Blue ribbon = winner

2011

• Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
• Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided
• Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean
• Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939-1945

2010

• Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity
• Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian London
• Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon

2009

• Mark Thompson, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919

2008

• Clair Wills, That Neutral Island
• Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
• Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914
• Leo Hollis, The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
• Frederick Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

2007

• Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
• Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection
• Deborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
• William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
• J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World - Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
• Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

2006

• Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
• Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
• Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

2005

• Paul Fussell, The Boys' Crusade (joint winners)
• Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (joint winners)
• Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker - The Last Days of the Third Reich
• Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
• Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

2004

• Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
• James Buchan, Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
• Norman Davies, Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw
• Richard A. Fletcher, The Cross and the Crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700

2003

• Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Society
• William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India
• Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion that Shook Henry VIII's Throne
• Munro Price, The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil
• A.N. Wilson, The Victorians

2002

• Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers