Michael Burleigh’s Christmas Wishlist

We asked some of our brilliant authors for books they’d like to give- or get – for Christmas. This time it’s the turn of Michael Burleigh, brilliant author of Moral Combat: A History of World War II, due to be published by HarperPress in 2010. Pre-order your copy here.

Last Christmas friends gave us Caroline Clifton-Mogg’s Secret Gardens of London (Thames and Hudson). I’ve leafed through it several times this year, in the hope that it might help transform our very small back yard.

Maybe some kind soul will give us Alexandra D’Arnoux’s Secret Gardens of Paris this year, although I fear the back yard will remain a yard throughout 2010.

I love reference books so perhaps another generous friend will poney up for the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary? At £250 they will have to be quick since the price rises to £275 after 31st January.

Finally, I’ve been slowly and selectively repurchasing memorable books which I sold during a rough patch. Things like Gregory of Tours History of the Franks (Penguin).

I’ve always been interested in late antiquity/the early Middle Ages, so any sources from those times would be very welcome, since I plan to revisit them in my dotage.

I’d also like the several volumes of the Pentagon Papers which I need for a future project…..should anyone have a set hanging idly around.

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