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Sunday Book Review: July 13, 2025, The Best Books on History Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. For the month of July, we look at the FT’s recommendations for top books in the summer of 2025. In this episode, Tom reviews the FT’s list of the top books on history for the Summer of 2025.

  1. Sceptred Isle by Helen Carr
  2. Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Jill Eicher
  3. Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-Sung by Fyodor Tertitskiy
  4. The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley

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FT’s Best Books of Summer for 2025: History by Frederick Studemann.

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December 18, 2022 – The Top Books on History Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider four books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we consider some of the FT’s top books of 2022 on history:

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble

We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush by Andrea G McDowell 

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

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Business Book of the Year – ShortList