Two Academics Share British Academy Book Prize

For The Guardian, Donald MacLeod writes…

\”An acclaimed biography of Hitler and an account of the medieval English \”empire\” shared the first British Academy book prize, announced yesterday.
The judges said both Ian Kershaw\’s second volume on the Nazi leader, Hitler: 1936-1945, Nemesis, and The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343, by Rees Davies, fully deserved the prize as works of impeccable scholarship which were accessible to the general public.\” More