2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Adam Hochschild

Offers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world….

Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Sean Wilentz

The Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich Series

Richard J. Evans