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Waterloo — Bernard Cornwell -
King Leopold's Ghost — Adam Hochschild -
The Opium War — Julia Lovell -
The House of Rothschild — Niall Ferguson -
Napoleon — Andrew Roberts -
Citizens — Simon Schama -
The Age of Revolution — Eric Hobsbawm -
The Romanovs — Simon Sebag Montefiore -
China: A History — John Keay -
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown -
The Great Game — Peter Hopkirk -
Diamonds, Gold and War — Martin Meredith -
India: A History — John Keay -
The Victorian City — Judith Flanders -
Empire — Niall Ferguson -
The Transformation of the World — Juergen Osterhammel -
The Scramble for Africa — Thomas Pakenham -
Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall