Year	Title	Author	Wins	Lists	Imprint
1999	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	John W. Dower	5	6	The New Press
	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam	Frances FitzGerald	3	4	Little, Brown
1998	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Jared Diamond	3	3	W. W. Norton
1985	Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White	Joseph Lelyveld	3	3	Times Books
2023	Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,	Tania Branigan	1	5	W. W. Norton
1998	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa	Adam Hochschild	3	4	Mariner Books
	Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire	David Remnick	3	4	Random House
2025	King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation	Scott Anderson	1	4	Doubleday
1996	A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution	Orlando Figes	3	3	Jonathan Cape
2002	Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War	Margaret MacMillan	3	3	John Murray
2023	Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century	Joya Chatterji	2	3	Yale University Press
2022	The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics	Mae Ngai	2	3	W. W. Norton
2004	Empire of Cotton: A Global History	Sven Beckert	1	3	Penguin Books
2019	Maoism: A Global History	Julia Lovell	1	3	Knopf
1979	Munich: The Price of Peace	Telford Taylor	1	3	Vintage Books
2019	A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution	Toby Green	1	5	University of Chicago Press
2001	Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis	Ian Kershaw	1	3	Allen Lane
2016	Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe	Judith Herrin	2	4	Princeton University Press
2013	The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914	Christopher Clark	2	4	Allen Lane
2021	Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast	Marjoleine Kars	2	2	The New Press
1977	Mussolini's Roman Empire	Denis Mack Smith	2	2	Longman
2004	The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia	Richard Overy	2	2	Allen Lane
1991	The Quest for El Cid	Richard Fletcher	2	2	Hutchinson
1960	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	William L. Shirer	2	2	Simon & Schuster
2020	Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire	Sujit Sivasundaram	1	3	University of Chicago Press
1978	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century	Barbara W. Tuchman	1	2	Ballantine Books
2016	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets	Svetlana Alexievich	1	2	Random House
1959	The Age of the Democratic Revolution: Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800	R. R. Palmer	1	2	Princeton University Press
2015	The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire	Susan Pedersen	1	2	Oxford University Press
2017	The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars	Daniel Beer	1	2	Basic Books
2007	After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000	John Darwin	1	2	Allen Lane
2003	Marianne in Chains: In search of the German Occupation 1940-1945	Robert Gildea	1	2	Macmillan
2009	Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe 1807 to 1814	Dominic Lieven	1	2	Allen Lane
	The Search for Modern China	Jonathan D. Spence	1	2	W. W. Norton
2009	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945	Saul Friedländer	1	2	HarperCollins
2002	White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India	William Dalrymple	1	2	HarperCollins
2011	Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War	Stephen R. Platt	1	1	Atlantic Books
1965	Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946	Theodore W. Friend III	1	1	Yale University Press
	Canada, A Story of Challenge	J. M. S. Careless	1	1	Not yet sourced
2018	Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy	Serhii Plokhy	1	1	Penguin Publishing Group
1982	China: Alive in the Bitter Sea	Fox Butterfield	1	1	Bantam Books
	Conquest, Coexistence, and Change: Wales 1063-1415	Rees Davies	1	1	Oxford University Press
1981	Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France	John McManners	1	1	Oxford University Press
	Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910	Richard Evans	1	1	Oxford University Press
1978	Death in Paris, 1795-1801	Richard Cobb	1	1	Oxford University Press
	European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750	Jonathan Israel	1	1	Oxford University Press
2001	Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and its Peoples 8000BC-AD1500	Barry Cunliffe	1	1	Oxford University Press
2020	Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs	Camilla Townsend	1	1	Oxford University Press
	Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800	Christopher Wickham	1	1	Oxford University Press
1991	Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair	John Bossy	1	1	Yale University Press

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