The World Over: History and Politics

Prizewinning historian Antony Beevor is the bestselling author of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, which received the Royal United Services’ Institute Westminster Medal; The Battle for Spain, which received the La Vanguardia Prize; Paris After the Liberation 1944–1949; Stalingrad, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and The Fall of Berlin 1945, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award. He is the recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. His latest book is Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Viking). In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive which was to become the greatest battle of World War II.

Gerald Posner is the author of eleven books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, a finalist for the Pulitzer in History.  Posner has written dozens of articles for national magazines and papers and has been a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, CBS, and MSNBC. In his latest book, God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican (Simon & Schuster), Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in perhaps the most influential organization in the history of the world. This is a rare exposé and an astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger dilemmas of the world’s more recent history.