Books by Tim Bouverie
Tim Bouverie is a historian and journalist. His latest book, Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, won the 2026 Duff Cooper Prize. His first book Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. The book has been translated into eleven languages and is regarded as the first major narrative account of appeasement. Having studied history at Oxford, Tim worked on historical and political documentaries before joining Channel 4 News, where he worked for four and a half years as a political journalist alongside Michael Crick, covering two General Elections and the Scottish and EU referendums.
Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler
by Tim Bouverie
š Winner of the 2026 Pol Roger Duff Cooper PrizeĀ
” When you look at the title, you may think that it will be covering very familiar territory, given how many books have been written about the Second World War. But Bouverie writes so well, and with such freshness, that he completely hooks you…Itās an absolutely gripping read.” Read more...
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2026 Duff Cooper Prize
Andrew Holgate, Journalist
Interviews with Tim Bouverie
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The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938-1945
by David Dilks (editor) -
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Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946
by W. Averell Harriman with Elie Abel -
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Vichy France: Old Guard New Order, 1940-1944
by Robert Paxton -
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In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
by David Reynolds -
5
The White House Papers of Harry Hopkins
by Robert E. Sherwood
World War 2 Nonfiction Books, recommended by Tim Bouverie
World War 2 Nonfiction Books, recommended by Tim Bouverie
With hindsight, it seems inevitable that the Allies would eventually defeat the Axis powers in World War II, but at the time it seemed anything but. Tim Bouverie, author of the prize-winning Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, talks us through some of the best nonfiction books about the war and the alliances that led to Allied victory.
Interviews where books by Tim Bouverie were recommended
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Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler
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A Scandal in Kƶnigsberg
by Christopher Clark -
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
by Richard Holmes -
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John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
by Ian Leslie -
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Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe
by Adam Weymouth
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2026 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Andrew Holgate
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2026 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Andrew Holgate
Now in its 70th year, the Duff Cooper Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding work of nonfiction that combines originality, rigour and a strong narrative driveāthe kind of book that “general readers of serious nonfiction crave,” explains Andrew Holgate, former literary editor of the Sunday Times and one of this year’s judges. He talks us through the brilliant books that made the 2026 shortlist, from a fresh and revealing take on the defeat of Hitler to the politics of wolves in contemporary Europe.
