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Previous Winners, Shortlists and Judges

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1999   Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (Penguin)
2000   Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness by David Cairns (The Penguin Press)
2001   The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (Macmillan)
2002   Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Margaret Macmillan (John Murray)
2003   Pushkin: A biography by T.J. Binyon (HarperCollins)
2004   Stasiland by Anna Funder (Granta)
2005   Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe (Picador)
2006   1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber)
2007   Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
   
 
 
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