2009 Mary Beard, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (Profile Books) Margaret M. McGowan, Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession (Yale University Press) 2008 John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global Story of Empire (Allen Lane) Rosemary Hill, God’s Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) 2007 Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (Atlantic Books) 2006 Evelyn Welch, Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale University Press) Christopher Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 (Oxford University Press) 2005 David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) 2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Frances Harris, Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin (Oxford University Press) Julian T. Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Oxford University Press) 2003 Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (Macmillan) William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (HarperCollins) 2002 Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples (Oxford University Press) Jerry White, London in the 20th Century: A City and Its Peoples (Viking) 2001 Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane) Mark Mazower, The Balkans (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Allen Lane) 2000 Andrew Roberts, Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing (Granta Books)