20th Century History

"Crisis and Commitments" is the first volume of the "Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts from 1948-1975". This book covers the domestic and international politics of Australia's...

Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm, this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. this time, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take a leap forward...

Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance....

The British Left has developed a long way since the early days of electoral reform signalled by the Great Reform Act of 1832. In this book, Kenneth O. Morgan, one...

In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should,...

Almost seventy-five years ago, MI9 dreamt up the most audacious escape and evasion plan of World War Two. Formulated by Airey Neave, one of the first men ever to escape...

The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...

This lavishly illustrated book brings to light the diverse work and the growing influence of this early 20th-century Japanese artist and designer. Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942), little known until recent years,...

Documents the outstanding accomplishments of the British Eighth Army, under the command of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, which successfully battled the forces of the Axis powers in battles at Sidi...

There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds...

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recounts more...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett,...

Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. This revelatory new biography draws on thousands of...

This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved Presidents. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has...

The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the...

An outspoken memoir from General Janis Karpinski, telling the real story of the tragic and shameful events of 2004 from first-hand experience. Karpinski was the first and only female General...

The book titled Hard to Go Bung: World War II Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1945-1962 by the author Rosalind Smallwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

In May 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company under the command of an Australian army captain, supported by a U.S. Marine artillery detachment,...

This volume traces the waves of Egyptian influence which swept Europe and North America from the first modern use of Egyptian themes in a painting by Poussin in 1647 to...

The book titled Harrods: The Story of Society's Favourite Store by the author Sean Callery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the Studebaker and the Slinky to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in...

A re-translation of the Dutch original edition, this book contains Karini's fourteen letters to a girl in Amsterdam which are some of the most powerful of her surviving letters.

The definitive overview of this highly influential and innovative art movement.

Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, Arte Povera is the most complete overview of this movement ever published.

What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the...

By the mid-1990s, American trade with the Pacific nations--Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and others--will be twice as large as our commerce with countries across the Atlantic. Now...

The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides...

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of...

This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover...

Roger Phillips first met American cookery writer Leslie Land at a mushrooming foray in upstate New York in the summer of 1989. They discovered shared passions for gardening, food and...

Original visual material based upon exhaustive picture research from untapped archives, private collections and Jewish museums in Israel, America and Europe. Jewish studies is an area of massive interest for...

The book quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters and documents, giving a depiction of Britain's first modern war through the authentic voice of the combatant, and...

This volume focuses on the history of the United States through stories of human freedom aspired to and won, beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and culminating in...

An authoritative and magisterial survey on the Holocaust by one of the world's leading experts “A masterful synthesis that draws on a lifetime of learning and research." --Publishers Weekly (starred...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...

The book titled The Years of Lyndon Johnson: v. 1: Path to Power by the author Robert A. Caro. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This book defines war, rather than liberty, as the primary means by which peoples of North America have defined social, cultural, and political boundaries for the last half-millennium. From the...

On 15 February 2003, an estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London to protest against the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of that tragic conflict, the...

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic...

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed...

Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage, humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed. The overthrow of Muamar Gadaffi has...

In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and,...

A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today's threats from rogue states. For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes...

Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors...