20th Century History

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

The 2024 Elizabeth Longford prizewinning biography of the founder of Impressionism Based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, Jackie Wullschl ger's enthralling biography is the first account...

Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel. She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST...

Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....

Profiles extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history and who formulated their impressions-in fiction, diaries, letters, autobiographies-between 1880 and 1945.The book explores how the women...

The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The entertaining biography...

Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendome, the Hotel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American...

An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of Modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in Spring 2022. Ukraine is at a...

When Joseph Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918, he already knew her parents well - they had been in the underground revolutionary movement together before the Bolshevik uprising. There was...

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the vast Soviet Empire have led to an unexpected revival of nationalism in Europe. Long-forgotten claims, minority conflicts, and nationalist...

This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

The Enlightenment had dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies. Man's quest for ecstasy and trancendance flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the...

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

The book titled Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45 by the author Maggie Craig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...

Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...

Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Traces the image of the horse in photography and shows such animals as work horses, thoroughbreds, and military horses

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...

How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...

This successor to the phenomenally popular Artspeak: A Guide To Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords chronicles international art from realism through surrealism. An invaluable guide through the intricacies of the...

Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimk'e (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career,...

Children's writer and Carnegie medallist Jan Mark has selected 44 stories which include moral tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, adventure stories, and school stories; they are inhabited by good and...

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the...

With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby...

For the first time ever, in one indispensable book-and-DVD package, "The New York Times" presents its complete front pages. The book reproduces a selection of 300 front pages covering the...

The book titled The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era by the author Alexis Gregory. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This unique work of reference provides a comprehensive record-from Tangier in 1662 to Bosnia in 1994-of every country in which each regiment has served. It includes details of all campaigns,...

At its heart, this book is an examination of how a new structural material - mass-produced steel - came to be first applied to the buildings of one of the...

Stalin's monstrous regime was built on the most intricate secrecy and until now, little has been known about the inside workings of his leadership or his personal life. Edvard Radzinsky...

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. HOLY MADNESS probes into the psyche...

Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to...

In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...

A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable...

Rather than simply celebrating the 'triumph of liberty', Jack Rakove's new history of the American Revolution will stress the ambiguous legacy of the revolution, a legacy that ranges from liberty...

There is little available on the dramatic and colourful history of the Spanish monarchy. Experienced author and historian John Van der Kiste provides a readable and anecdotal look at one...

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the...