20th Century History

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

'A remarkable account of the Packer family.painstakingly researched.will enthral anyone with an interest in the media'. - Kate de Brito, The Daily Telegraph Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, came to...

In 2005 an old canister of film was discovered in a Devon church. How it got there was a mystery and its contents were tantalizing. The grainy black and white...

Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's authorsubjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life...

The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein...

Cesarani describes how the immigration policy of Clement Attlee's post-war government actually favoured Eastern Europeans over non-whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Despite protests from MPs Dick Crossman and Tom Driberg,...

An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . . . Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne...

This is a brilliant reinterpretation of the negotiations between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin that divided Europe and laid the foundations for the cold war. Gardner argues that the quest for...

The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,...

The Fairchild family have it all. At least that's what anyone watching the family of billionaires board the opulent Titan Pacifica would think. But as Sydney Harbour Bridge starts to...

''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. --- The Telegraph 'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery...the...

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...

This is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold...

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The book titled Ataturk by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive, revelatory account of the GDR's Cold War espionage activities against the UK: their goals, methods, sources -- and recruits. Before the collapse of Communist East Germany the country...

How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl? Shortlist ABIA Biography of the Year 2025...

The book titled Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine by the author Jasper Becker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on...

Two centuries later, the French Revolution-that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy-continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only...

Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongola before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the...

The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world. In...

The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment...

Rex Wade here presents a new history of one of the pivotal events of modern history, combining his own long study of the revolution with the best of contemporary scholarship....

In this volume Ivan Berend looks closely at the fateful decades preceding World War II and at 12 countries whose absence from the roster of major players was enough in...

The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Gwynne Lewis provides the first short introductory history of the French Revolution to relate the social, economic and cultural to the intellectual and political. Combining interpretive narrative with thematic analysis,...

The book titled A House with Four Rooms by the author Rumer Godden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Hugh Dalton: A Life by the author Ben Pimlott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom" brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive...

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For...

Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the...

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...

This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...

Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett's Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the...

A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance 'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all...

The book titled The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist by the author Anthony Glees. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right,...

Mary Ward (1851-1920) had a furiously active public career, her literary and philanthropic activities transforming her from an eminent Victorian into a pre-eminent Edwardian. The granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, she...

The book titled The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder by the author David Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny,...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices...

A classic from the leader of the pop art movement - published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery (October 2007-February...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence....