US historian Anne Applebaum is due to be honoured with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at the end of the Frankfurt Book Fair on Sunday. The laudation was to be delivered in Frankfurt’s Church of St Paul by Irina Scherbakowa, a Moscow-born Germanist, historian and one of Russia’s best-known human rights activists. “At a time when democratic values and achievements are increasingly being caricatured and attacked, her work embodies an eminent and indispensable contribution to the preservation of democracy and peace,” the prize’s selection jury said in a statement. Appelbaum’s work has re…