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PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Award
The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award. The books are to be of high literary merit, but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the English PEN. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the s and s; on her death in she bequeathed £, to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.[1] Each year's winner receives £2,[1]
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in over PEN centres around the world.
Winners and shortlist
A blue ribbon () denotes the winner.
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- Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
- Paul Fussell, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, – (joint winners)
- Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, –
- Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (joint winners)
- Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
- Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
- Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West –
- 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
- Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War
- Mark Thompson, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front –
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- 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 –
- Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from BC to Cleopatra[2]
- Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food
- Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
- David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
- James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, –
- Mark Bostridge, The Fateful Year: England
- Jessie Childs, God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
- Ronald Hutton, Pagan Britain
- Robert Tombs, The English and Their History
- Jenny Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars
The shortlist was announced 7 June [6] The winner was announced 10 July.[7]
- Sarah Bakewell, At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
- Susan L. Carruthers, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
- Dan Cruickshank, Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
- Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, –
- David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History
- Tim Whitmarsh, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
The shortlist was announced 22 March [8] The winner was announced 24 June [9]
The winner was announced 4 December [10]
- Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
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The shortlist was announced on 29 October [11] The winner was announced on 1 December [12]
- Anita Anand, The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the Raj
- Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
- Hazel Carby, Imperial: A Tale of Two Islands
- Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
- Caroline Moorhead, A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
- Thomas Penn, The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
- Roel Sterckx, Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding
The shortlist was announced on 14 October and the winner on 7 December.[13][14]
- Barbara Demick, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
- Chris Gosden, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
- Sinclair McKay, Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
- Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
- Ben Wilson, Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
The shortlist was announced on 7 October [15]
- Rebecca Birrell, This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
- Raphael Cormack, Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s — honourable mention[16]
- Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire
- Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
- Ian Sanjay Patel, We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
- Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy[17]
The shortlist was announced on Thursday, November 2nd, [18]
- Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean, Abolition Revolution (Pluto Press)
- Anna Della Subin, Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Granta)
- Calum Jacobs, A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game (Merky Books)
- Philippe Sands,The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
- Julieann Campbell,On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath By Those Who Were There (Monoray)
- , Kojo Koram, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press)[19]
The shortlist was announced on 14 November [20]
- Caroline Dodds Pennock, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (W&N)
- Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of –85 (Yale University Press)
- Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany – (Allen Lane)
- Ian Rutledge, Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War (Saqi Books)
- Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld) [21]
- Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Virago)