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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.2 Excellent

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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe and Nazi Germany. His work si...

Contemporary Historiography British Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian whose work focuses on the social history of the Soviet Union, esp...

Contemporary Social Australian Soviet

8.9 Great

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Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham is a British medieval historian whose research examines Europe and the Mediterranean after the Roman Empir...

Contemporary Social Medieval Early Medieval

8.9 Great

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Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is a British economic historian who writes about modern Europe, Germany, and global financial crises. His 200...

Contemporary British Nazi Germany Economic

8.8 Great

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and legal scholar whose work examines Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and the He...

American Contemporary Jefferson Biography

8.8 Great

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E.H. Carr

E.H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, journalist, and theorist of international relations. His 1961 book What Is...

20TH Century British Soviet Diplomatic

8.7 Great

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a British classicist and historian of ancient Rome. Her 2015 book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome presents...

Classical Contemporary Public British

8.7 Great

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.7 Great

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Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower is a British historian whose research covers modern Europe, Greece, the Balkans, international politics, an...

Contemporary European British Balkan

8.6 Great

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Peter Heather

Peter Heather is a British historian whose research focuses on the late Roman Empire, the Germanic peoples, and the tran...

Contemporary Migration Late Antiquity British

8.6 Great

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Robert Bartlett

Robert Bartlett is a British medieval historian whose research concerns European society, religious change, political ex...

Contemporary Social Medieval British

8.6 Great

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Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a British historian known for narrative studies of twentieth-century conflict, especially the Second Wo...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.5 Great

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Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is a British classicist and ancient historian whose work covers Alexander the Great, Greek and Roman reli...

Classical Contemporary Ancient Greece British

8.5 Great

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Hugh Kennedy

Hugh Kennedy is a British historian of the medieval Islamic world, specializing in the early caliphates, the political h...

Contemporary Early Medieval British Islamic

8.5 Great

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Leslie Bethell

Leslie Bethell is a British historian whose scholarship focuses on Brazil and the history of Latin America. He is partic...

Modern Contemporary British Colonial

8.5 Great

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Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan is a Scottish military historian whose work focuses on war, strategy, and the First World War. His books in...

Military Contemporary British Strategic

8.5 Great

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Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is a British and German historian and writer specializing in Russian history. His book "A People's Tragedy...

Russian Contemporary Social British

8.3 Great

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Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts is a British historian and biographer whose books include studies of Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churc...

Military Contemporary British World War Ii

7.9 Good