20th Century History

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English 'Spain is different,'...

The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over...

A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...

New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...

A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its...

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme- the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated...

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the...

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...

An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to...

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...

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously....

In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters...

Classic nature writing for bird lovers - a portrait of Britain's ordinary garden birds, and the woman who opened her doors to them. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times...

The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in...

2021 is the 35th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust 'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to...

The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020 Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror...

The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to...

The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...

The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was...

The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a...

'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices - how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...' It...

A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of...

Isaac Bell returns for another white-knuckled mission in a new installment of the thrilling series Summer, 1914. At a private meeting on Woodrow Wilson's presidential yacht, the President addresses the...

A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British...

The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost...

For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to...

A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as an incomparable politician, deal-maker and uniter Franklin D. Roosevelt is a...

The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern...

A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...

An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...

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...

An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...

The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to...

Iron Curtain is an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning, and a haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be. Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year'...

The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war...

The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self,...

The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...

A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British...

'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing...

The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women...

A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important...