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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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