Book Recommendations

Each week at 8pm Talking History features interviews with the authors of the newest and most cutting-edge history books. Here you’ll find the titles and authors of these highly recommended reads.

Here are the last few weeks of Talking History’s ‘Book Of The Week’ – starting from last to first.

All The King’s Men by Saul David
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom by Alvin Jackson
A Loss of Innocence Television and Irish Society 1960-72’ by Robert Savage
Great Discoveries in Medicine with William Bynum & Helen Bynum
Stewart Lansley ‘The Limits to Inequality: How a Soaring Income Gap Caused the Crash
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom by Alvin Jackson
Saul David – All the Kings Men
Peter Englud on The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of WW1
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Window & Mirror – RTÉ Televison – 1961-2011 by John Bowman
‘Guerre de La triple Alianca’ Volume Two with Professor Thomas L Whigham
Love & Capital: Karl and Jenny Mark and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
Masters of the Post by Duncan Campbell Smith
Vanished Kindoms: The History of Half Forgotten Europe with Norman Davis
Sexuality in Europe: A 20th Century History by Dagmar Herzog
The GAA County by County by Professor Mike Cronin
Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland & Australia by Editors Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward
The Friar of Carcassonne by Stephen O’Shea
The Battle for Cork: July – August 1922′ by John Borgonovo
Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising by Fearghal McGarry
Warlord: The Life and War of Winston Churchill by Carlo DeEste
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History by Jeremy Black
The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw.
Last Days of the Soviet Union by Conor O’ Cleary.
On the Run – The Story of an Irish Freedom Fighter. Translated by Micheal O’hAodha, Edited by Ruan O’Donnell
Evenings Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofsky
The IRA 1956-69: Rethinking the Republic by Matt Treacy
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and Catching Himmler – My Extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division, by Tom Renouf
Gladstone: Ireland & Beyond, Mary E. Daly & K. Theodore Hoppen, editors
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution with Father Brendan Purcell
Russia a History by Martin Sixsmith
Privilege & Poverty – The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander Williams by Gordon Ledbetter
The Picture of Dorian Grey Edited by Nicholas Frankel
Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots & Revolts in Ireland Edited by William Sheehan & Maura Cronin
Romantic Revolutionary: Bolivar and the War against the Spanish Empire in South America by Robert Harvey
The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at Roman Games, by Garrett G. Fagan
Faith Under Fire:Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War, by Edward Madigan
Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War by David Edgerton
The Wild Coast Travels on South Americas Untamed Edge by John Gimlette
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: James Kelly & Martyn J. Powell, editors
Hugh Trevor Roper: The Biography, by Adam Sisman
Pitt The Elder: Man of War by Edward Pearce
Deadly Deception: The Real Story Behind Operation Mincemeat by Denis Smyth
Destiny of the Soldiers Fianna Fail, Irish Republicanism and the IRA 1926 – 1973 by Donnacha O’Beachain
Australians, Vol. 1: Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally
Why The West Rules For Now by Ian Morris
Simon Wiesenhal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev
The History of the SDLP by Sean Farren
In The Ould Ago by Johnny McKeagney www.folklorebook.com
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilisation by Richard Miles
JFK in Ireland by Ryan Tubridy
Shadow of the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shooting by Barry Kennerk
News from the Republic: Ireland in the 1950s by Tom Garvin
Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland’s Lost Soldier by Ralph Reigal & John O’Mahony
Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide by Professor Amanda Claridge
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone
Race for the South Pole The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies by Dr Ian Mortimer
The Reluctant Taoiseach: A Biography of John A. Costello by David Mc Cullagh
American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
Egyptian Dawn: Exposing The Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt by Robert Temple
The Second World War: A Military History with Gordon Corrigan
The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Noberto Fuentes
Renegades: The 2016 Proclamation with Gerard O’Neill
Florence on Five Florins a Day by Charles Fitzroy
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shepard
Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation by Professor Jack Rakove
In the Ranks of Death : The Irish in the Second World War by Richard Doherty
Polybius by Brian Mc Ging
Knight by Michael Prestwich
Survivors: Jewish Self Help and Rescue by Bob Moore
History of Ireland by Tom Bartlett
The Battle of Waterloo by Jeremy Black
Precarious Childhood by Moira Maguire
The Search for Justice by Brian Maye
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
The Battle for Limerick City by Padraic Og O Ruairc
Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams
Let Our Fame Be Great by Oliver Bullough
Tales of War: Great Stories from Military History for Every Day of the Year by WB Marsh and Bruce Carrick
We Were There by Robert Fox
A Book Around The Irish Sea by David Brett
Irish Birmingham: A History by Dr Jim Moran
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
SIPTU: Organising History by Francis Devine
The Churchills: A Family Portrait by Celia and John Lee
Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924 by Kevin Mc Carthy
Nine Wartime Lives by James Hinton
Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb with Andrew Rotter
In Search of the Promised Land: The Politics of Post War Ireland by Gary Murphy
Irish Franciscans 1534 to 1990 by John Mc Cafferty & Edel Breatnach
Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish Patriotism for a 5 Pound Note by Donal Mc Cracken
History of Christianity by Diarmuid Mac Culloch
Mrs Delaney and Her Circle by Mark Laird
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Portrait in Failure by Shane Leslie
In My Own Time by James Downey
Behind the Green Curtain by Ryle Dwyer
The Lives of Eliza Lynch by Ronan Fanning & Michael Lillis
Mrs Delaney History Meets Fiction by Beverley Southgate
Dickens by Michael Slater
Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials by Myles Dungan
Responding to the Ryan Report, Tony Flannery
Lemass by Tom Garvin
Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe’s Discovery of the East by John Man
Crown & Shamrock by Mary Kenny
The Highlander by Tim Newark
We Will Remember Them: Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War by Max Arthur
Tschaikovsky by Roland John Wiley
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts
Forgotten Voices of Burma, by Julian Thompson
Churchills Bunker, by Richard Holmes
Hitler’s Gamble with Giles Mc Donagh
Hearts & Mines: The British 5th Division Ireland 1920-1922, William Sheehan
The Literature Police, by Peter Mc Donald
Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis by David Faber
The Rise & Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
Longest Siege by Rob Lyman
Terrorism by Richard English
Dunkirk: The men they left behind, by Sean Longden
Freedom to Choose: Cork & Party Politics in Ireland, 1918-1932 by Minister Micheal Martin
Dunkirk, Anthony Beever
The Uses and Abuses of HIstory, Margaret Mc Millan
The Captain and the King by Myles Dungan
Major Farran’s Hat by David Cesarani
Blood on the Banner, The Republican Struggle in Clare by Padraig Og O Ruairc
Germany 1945 by Richard Bessel
Noel Browne, Passionate Outsider by John Horgan
Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon
Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO by Clair Wills
50 Things You Didn’t Know About 1916 by Mick O’Farrell
Terrible Queers Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History by Brian Lacey
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
Patrick Hilllary: The Official Biography by Dr John Walsh
Ireland’s Unknown Soldiers by Terrence Denman
Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battles of the Pacific by Larry Smith
Ireland’s Unknown Soldiers by Terence Denman
Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
The News from Ireland by Maurice Walsh
A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
Queens Consort by Lisa Hilton
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle by Bryn Hammond
Jack Lynch A Biography by Dermot Keogh
We Declare by Richard Aldous
Our War, Ireland and the Great War by John Horne
Pompeii by Mary Beard