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Allen Lane History Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Allen Lane History books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Allen Lane History series? Start with "Mitrokhin Archive (By: Christopher Andrew,VasiliMitrokhin)" (1985) and follow publication order through all 49 books.
The complete Allen Lane History reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Mitrokhin Archive (By: Christopher Andrew,VasiliMitrokhin)
1985

The Anatomy of Fascism (By: Robert O. Paxton)
1994

In Search of Nature (By: Edward O. Wilson)
1996

Russia's War, 1941-1945 (By: Richard Overy)
1997

Prague in Black and Gold (By: Peter Demetz)
1997

How the Mind Works (By: Steven Pinker)
1997

The Chan's Great Continent (By: Spence)
1998

Evolution in Mind (By: Henry Plotkin)
1998

The Meaning of It All (By: Richard P. Feynman)
1998

Official Secrets (By: Richard Breitman)
1998

Lourdes (By: Ruth Harris)
1999

The Boy King / Tudor Church Militant (By: Diarmaid MacCulloch)
1999

British Prime Ministers and Other Essays (By: A.J.P. Taylor)
1999

The Greek Achievement (By: Charles Freeman)
1999

Gladstone (By: Richard Shannon)
1999

Cassandra's Daughter (By: Joseph Schwartz)
1999

Rembrandt's Eyes (By: Simon Schama)
1999

The Faustian Bargain (By: Jonathan Petropoulos)
2000

Something New Under the Sun (By: John Robert McNeill)
2000

Berlin (By: David Clay Large)
2000

Troublesome Things (By: Diane Purkiss)
2000

Enlightenment (By: Roy Porter)
2000

The New Penguin History of Scotland (By: William W.J. Knox,R.A. Houston)
2001

Interrogations (By: Richard Overy)
2001

Peninsular War (By: Charles J. Esdaile)
2002

The Blank Slate (By: Steven Pinker)
2002

Treason by the Book (By: Jonathan D. Spence)
2002

Blood and Guts (By: Roy Porter)
2002

Four Colors Suffice (By: Robin J. Wilson)
2002

The Cross and The Crescent (By: Richard Fletcher)
2003

Trial Of The Cannibal Dog (By: Anne Salmond)
2003

Flesh in the Age of Reason (By: Roy Porter)
2003

Empire Made Me (By: Robert Bickers)
2003

The Struggle for Mastery (By: David Arscott Carpenter)
2003

1914-1918 (By: David Stevenson)
2004

The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century (By: J.M. Roberts)
2004

La Vie En Bleu (By: H.R. Kedward)
2005

Mussolini's Italy (By: Richard J.B. Bosworth)
2005

Restoration (By: Tim Harris)
2005

United We Stand (By: Alastair J. Reid)
2005

Easter 1916 (By: Charles Townshend)
2005

The German Trauma (By: Gitta Sereny)
2005

Revolution (By: Tim Harris)
2006

The War of the World
2006

Forgotten Wars (By: C.A. Bayly)
2007

Fateful Choices (By: Ian Kershaw)
2007

The Force of Destiny (By: Christopher Duggan)
2007

Napoleon's Wars (By: Charles J. Esdaile)
2007

Disinherited (By: Henry Kamen)
2007
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