The Shortlist
Allan Mallinson | 1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War | (Transworld Publishers)
David Scott | Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power | (HarperCollins)
Mark Mazower | Governing the World: The History of an Idea | (Penguin)
Emile Simpson | War From The Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics | (Hurst Publishers)
Anne Applebaum | Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 | (Penguin)
John Philip Jones | Johnny: The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton | (Pen and Sword Books)