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Award

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award.

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020 shortlist

The books are to be of high literary merit, but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the English PEN. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s; on her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.^[1] Each year's winner receives £2,000.^[1]

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners and shortlist

A blue ribbon () denotes the winner.

2000s

2002

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2005

• Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
• Paul Fussell, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 (joint winners)
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