20th Century History

The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....

The first book to analyze the critical partnership among the Navy, industry, and science forged by World War II and responsible for producing submarines in the United States until 1961,...

It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the...

This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India....

One of the most revealing biographies of a Hollywood film star in recent times, this book discloses the truth about Clint Eastwood and dispels the carefully preserved mysteries of his...

Keating and his Party Room is the first comprehensive account of a full term of the proceedings of the Labor Party Room - the Caucus - where the Party's actions...

Flying from an aircraft carrier is one of the most difficult things to do in all of aviation. This is the story of a group of young Australians who joined...

Steampunk is a resurgent art, cult, and lowbrow movement celebrating the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blending in modern scientific advances--synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog...

The book titled Front Line Despatches: Australians at War 1845-1972 by the author Nic Van Oudtshoorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A survey of Victorian style and design, covering key movements and featuring seminal work by key designers - from Morris and de Morgan to Voysey and Mackintosh. The Victorian period...

With an introduction by Virginia Nicholson Saturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out,...

7 Principles for Finding Meaning in Life & Work NEW EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of...

We called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as 'the most dangerous man alive.' But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry....

Enter into a world where fashion is Victorian punk, technology hasn't surpassed the steam engine, and inventors' workshops are filled with bizarre gadgets and contraptions that you haven't imagined in...

Becky Sharp is determined. Determined to get away from the dead-end town where she grew up, determined to make a place for herself in high society, and determined to reach...

World War II was the most widespread war in history. In this devastating conflict, the great world powers formed two alliances - the Allies and the Axis. Great Battles of...

There can't be many people who have never heard of Nelson Mandela. His has become a household name, a name respected by everyone everywhere, from grandmothers to schoolchildren. Not so...

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...

Leslie H Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what...

The book titled THE Great Depression by the author R Y MCELVAINE. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction. The first battle book from...

Investigative journalist Frank Walker's Maralinga is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servicemen, scientists treating the Australian population as lab rats and politicians sacrificing their own people...

Based on a series of lectures given by Professor Jenner in New Zealand shortly after Tiananmen square, this book examines the peculiarity of Chinese history, and of the unique burden...

The Fastnet Race is the world famous yacht race from the Isle of Wight to the Fastnet Rock off the southwest coast of Ireland and back. The race of 1979...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Updated with enlightening new material , this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank 's diary, "the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust" (...

Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time....

One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the...

The thrilling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper -...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Unleash Your Inner...

Taschen's Decorative Art series, whose six installments now span the 20th century up through the 1970s, carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine's Decorative Art yearbook. Published annually from 1906...

In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina. Hickory is a...

In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap...

'An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness' THE TIMES 'Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder...a guaranteed good read' STYLIST 'Witchcraft, murder, and...

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve...

Leading the way in housing design and marketing, and setting the pattern of Australian detached housing, AVJennings built over 66,000 homes between 1962 and 1982. How this was done with...

The book titled The Arts and Crafts Movement by the author Robin Langley Sommer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

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China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the...

The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual...

Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney Foundation Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley Afterword by Vijay Prashad In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one...

p>The 1960s was a decade like no other hellip; the culture, the music and the fashions. It also saw a surfing boom that bred innovation in surfboard design, changes in...

Mies in Berlin is an important reconsideration of a key figure of the modern movement. It offers an in-depth look at the continuous and complex evolution of the architect's design...

An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...

This book shows how a discriminating eye can uncover an assortment of practical and decorative finds at antique shops and flea markets, and offers creative ways to adapt them to...

In this text, Dorothy Rowe demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of...

A TAXONOMY OF OFFICE CHAIRS is an exhaustive visual history of the office chair. The book illustrates over 180 of the most innovative office chairs, from the 1840s to the...

This book is both an absorbing social history and a comprehensive reference guide to 19th-century British and American artists who took Venice as their inspiration. The first part of the...

The definitive career biography of one of our greatest performing artists, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth in early 2009. Ballet dancer; mime artist; make-up artist; musicals...