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• ↓ The best books on Battles, recommended by Iain MacGregor
• ↓ AUDIOBOOKS Agrippa by Robert Harris 🎧 Winner of an Earphones Award for a truly exceptional audiobook from Audiofile (now part of Kirkus Reviews) “A fictional memoir of Agrippa, the friend and right-hand man of Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. It’s by Robert Harris, who has a knack for writing page-turners based on historical sources.”—Five Books editors
• ↓ HISTORICAL FICTION The Pretender by Jo Harkin ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction “The story is gloriously told, wild with the intrigues, plots and counter-plots of the War of the Roses as experienced by a boy who might be everything and nothing. There is so much to admire: the wit, the use of language, the imagination, the tone and the most difficult skill of all, the sifting of history into a page-turner.”—Katharine Grant, historical novelist and prize judge
• ↓ HISTORY The Holy Roman Empire by Peter Wilson “Peter Wilson is one of the best British experts of German history, and this book is a masterpiece…It is very unusual to describe the history of the Holy Roman Empire from its medieval beginnings to its dissolution in 1806.”—Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, historian
• ↓ NONFICTION BOOKS The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness by Cal Flyn 🏆 Winner of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing “The book is a history of the idea of ‘wilderness’, as told through a series of ten journeys to some of the world’s most isolated locations—from the Sinai Desert to the Antarctic peninsula.” —Cal Flyn, Five Books deputy editor
• ↓ FICTION The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 🏆 Winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction “If you want to feel warm and lovely, The Correspondent is the book to read. I adored it. It is told entirely through letters between Sybil, the protagonist, and whoever she may be writing to…It’s the kind of book that will keep you up until 3 o’clock in the morning.”—Salma El-Wardany, prize judge
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"The weapons and tactics of war may change, but the human experience of battle does not, argues Iain MacGregor, author of Battle: The Moments that Transformed Warfare from Ancient Greece to Ukraine. He highlights five books that bring that experience to life, from the ordinary soldier at Agincourt to the brutal realities of the Pacific War and the Falklands."

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"Historical fiction can be both a valid and a valuable mode of examining unrecorded or forgotten figures in history, argues the award-winning novelist Alice Jolly. That is especially the case for women's history, which is so often thinly documented. Here she highlights five immersive novels that foreground female stories."

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The best books on Battles, recommended by Iain MacGregor

AUDIOBOOKS Agrippa by Robert Harris 🎧 Winner of an Earphones Award for a truly exceptional audiobook from Audiofile (now part of Kirkus Reviews) “A fictional memoir of Agrippa, the friend and right-hand man of Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. It’s by Robert Harris, who has a knack for writing page-turners based on historical sources.”—Five Books editors

HISTORICAL FICTION The Pretender by Jo Harkin ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction “The story is gloriously told, wild with the intrigues, plots and counter-plots of the War of the Roses as experienced by a boy who might be everything and nothing. There is so much to admire: the wit, the use of language, the imagination, the tone and the most difficult skill of all, the sifting of history into a page-turner.”—Katharine Grant, historical novelist and prize judge

HISTORY The Holy Roman Empire by Peter Wilson “Peter Wilson is one of the best British experts of German history, and this book is a masterpiece…It is very unusual to describe the history of the Holy Roman Empire from its medieval beginnings to its dissolution in 1806.”—Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, historian

NONFICTION BOOKS The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness by Cal Flyn 🏆 Winner of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing “The book is a history of the idea of ‘wilderness’, as told through a series of ten journeys to some of the world’s most isolated locations—from the Sinai Desert to the Antarctic peninsula.” —Cal Flyn, Five Books deputy editor

FICTION The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 🏆 Winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction “If you want to feel warm and lovely, The Correspondent is the book to read. I adored it. It is told entirely through letters between Sybil, the protagonist, and whoever she may be writing to…It’s the kind of book that will keep you up until 3 o’clock in the morning.”—Salma El-Wardany, prize judge