20th Century History

'During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage... Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaak's story of heroism and sacrifice.'...

In September 1958, only minutes into a professional road race, Australia's best cyclist, Russell Mockridge, was dead, his head and body crushed under the wheels of a bus. The death...

The first political history of the Second World War, of building the Grand Alliance to defeat Hitler, by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler A landmark history of the...

Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's...

The full story of Britain's Special Operations Executive in Albania and the extraordinary challenges and conditions they faced. In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the...

In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American,...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more...

The gripping story of a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States in this definitive, controversial look at just how dark government can...

The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world in this Sunday Times bestseller All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of...

The beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo 'Frida will hold its place as the first comprehensive biography of this most visceral of artists' Observer 'Mesmerizing' Time Frida is...

Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a...

Richard tomlinson was recruited by M16, the British foreign intelligence service, during his final year at Cambridge University. He was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to...

An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...

Since her James Beard Award-winning first book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques , Suzanne Goin and her Los Angeles empire of restaurants have blossomed and she has been lauded as one...

A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...

Australia is about to become the international focus for good food and style as the world wakes up to the renaissance which has taken place in the last decade. Just...

Discover the story of London from behind the scenes. Imagine sitting across from a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth on the District Line, or being overtaken by Muhammad Ali on his morning...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

In this epic survey of two centuries of history, Misha Glenny - Britain's most distinguished commentator on the Balkans - gives general readers what they have long needed: a single...

The book titled House to House: An Epic of Urban Warfare by the author David Bellavia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Good Old Days by the author Klee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things 'Heart-smashed' by the death of the mother she ran from at age...

Tied to a Channel 4 television series in three one-hour parts, this is the story of the breaking of the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. That...

'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMAN From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant...

The world jeered when the Emperor of Iran served roast peacock to celebrate the anniversary of his Empire; the White House chef threw a tantrum and resigned when asked to...

For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory,...

The book titled Ataturk: the Rebirth of a Nation by the author Patrick Kinross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, told by James Swanson, author of the New York...

Goddess of the Automobile Age: The changing aspects of femininity and masculinity Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and...

Reine Sammut arrived in Provence when she was 14. She really started loving and preparing Provencal food when she met her husband and his family and started to discover the...

This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn and now again to 2010 by art...

The RAAF in Vietnam is the fourth volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts from 1948-75. Beginning with the earliest moves to attain a Royal...

The book titled The History of the Royal Air Force, 1939-89 by the author Chris Chant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In nearly half a century, Frederick Palmer reported on more different armies in action than any other journalist. Using Palmer's wartime notebooks and photographs, this book re-creates the journalist's journey...

World War II was the defining conflict of the twentieth century. This illustrated series, written and edited by esteemed military historians, takes readers back in history to the years between...

The Digger's View - WWI in Colour offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life...

This is an annotated translation of al-Tahtawi's "Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz", an Arabic account of a visit to Paris by a Muslim from the Near East. Its author, a...

The book titled MARCH TO VICTORY by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This work provides a comprehensive description of Islam's long and dynamic history. It provides a survey of the history of the Islamic world and of Islamic civilization from the time...

Unlock the secrets of the Mediterranean diet and discover a lifetime of health benefits with this beginner's guide and cookbook, written by a registered dietician nutritionist. The Mediterranean diet has...

First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, the first part of a three-volume pictorial history of the RAF, which contains many rare and previously unpublished photographs from collections...