A slightly smaller selection of new history books from November 2025 (in the UK, in hardback) - nevertheless they are all welcome! The three I am looking out for are:
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Mexico: A 500-Year History, by Paul Gillingham. Big thick national history books are always a bit of a gamble, but given that Mexico has such an interesting history this one may be worth it!
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El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness, by Giles Tremlett. A key figure in modern European history but not someone I know much about, Franco (and the Franco period) is someone (something) I would like to understand better.
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On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All, by Arnoud S. Q. Visser. The flipside of wisdom: I would hope for plenty of amusing anecdotes!
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there.
The full list:
- 📕 Eleanor: On the Trail of England's Lost Queen
- 📘 El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness
- 📔 The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
- 📗 Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
- 📙 On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All
- 📓 Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
- 📒 Little Kingdoms: An A-Z of Early Medieval Britain
- 📙 Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar
- 📘 Mexico: A 500-Year History
- 📔 Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire
