(ISBN 1-86207-068-7, Granta Books, London, September 1997, pp. viii + 307, hardback).
Reprinted November 1997, December 1997. Paperback September 1998, reprinted October 2000. Book club edition: January 1998 (softback preview book club).
Revised edition, with a new Afterword January 2001 (ISBN 1-86207-395-3). pp. viii+371,
Reprinted July 2002 and subsequently; now in twelfth printing.
German edition: Fakten und Fiktionen. Über die Grundlagen historischer Erkenntnis; hardback, pp. 288 (Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, September 1998, ISBN 3-593-
36058-6).; paperbound Studienausgabe October 1999.
US edition: In Defense of History (W.W. Norton, January 1999, ISBN 0-393-04687-7), hardback, 287 pp., paperback January 2001.
Korean edition: ISBN 89-7139-530-3 Sonamoon Publishing Co., Seoul, September 1999
Turkish edition: Tarihin Savunusu. Imge Kitabevi, Ankara, December 1999, pp. 315 (ISBN 975-533-259-6).
Japanese edition: ISBN 4-7710-1118-4, Koyo Shobo Publisher, Kyoto, May 2000, pp. 206.
Swedish edition: Til historiens försvar; SNS Förlag, Stockholm, October 2000, pp. 303 (ISBN 91-7150-788-4).
Portuguese edition: Em defesa da História. Temas e Debates, Lisbon, December 2000, pp. 294 (ISBN 972-759-227-9).
Italian edition: In difesa della storia. Sellerio editore, Palermo, June 2001, pp. 289 (ISBN 88-389-0).
1673-X).
Chinese edition October 2003. ISBN 957-732-452-6 Chu Liu Book Company, Taiwan. 373pp.
Serbian edition, Criticka publishers, Belgrade 2007, ISBN 978-86-379-0992-7, 456pp.. Swedish mass market paperback edition with Afterword and also a new Foreword by Lars Margusson, SNS Förlag, 2008, ISBN 978-91-85695-73-7, pp. 364.
Chinese simplified character edition with Afterword, 352pp., Beijing,, Guanxi Normal University Press, ISBN 978-7-5633-7885-2, March 2009.
Greek edition with Afterword, 375pp., Athens, December 2009, Savalas Social Sciences Publishers, ISBN 978-960-449-841-3.
Ukrainian edition forthcoming.