The $75,000 Cundill Prize, now down to three nominees, will be announced on November 20. Still standing, should you want a lot of reading in the next week:
·
Gary Bass – The
Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide (Knopf)
A horrifying story of the
Pakistani state’s genocidal war on the people of Bangladesh – and America’s sad
record of complicity.
·
Richard Overy – The
Bombing War: Europe 1939-45* (Allen Lane)
An
extraordinary survey of aerial warfare in every theater of World War II.
·
David Van Reybrouck – Congo:
The Epic History of a People (ECCO)
An
intensely personal examination of the self-destruction of the Congolese state.
From the Cundill press release:
The winner of the 2013 Cundill Prize was Anne Applebaum for Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956. On winning the prize, Applebaum said: “It’s wonderful that this prize is not just for ‘non-fiction’ but for well-written, deeply researched history, which is one of the most difficult and time-consuming literary forms that exists. It's also wonderful that the award is generous enough to be of real help to the historians who win it. I am enormously honored to have been last year’s laureate."
