20th Century History

No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016 celebrates the strength and diversity of contemporary art from Papua New Guinea, exploring works created from the mid 1960s, through Independence in...

Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills... It's 1920 and Britain is trying to move on after World War 1. Clementine, who nursed on the front and suffered her own losses,...

The Sydney Olympics and Paralympics brought to the world's attention the army of fifty thousand volunteers who got the Olympic show on the road. Max Walker, a sporting hero himself,...

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,...

Roland Dallas'' biography of the late King Hussein of Jordan is the story of an extraordinary man, the survivor of several assassination attempts and a man who was equally at...

The motor car has had a firm grip on our col lective imagination since the first prototypes were designed over 100 years ago. Highlighting the years 1945-1975, this book covers...

This work documents the best graphic design from the contemporary music scene, one of the principal arenas of experimental graphic design. The book features CD covers, record sleeves and packaging...

A documentation of the Renault Centre (winner of four awards), describing how it was designed and engineered, using documentation from the Foster Associates' archives. The author argues that it is...

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...

Based on exclusive access to MI5 documents and newly discovered Russian papers, the true fate of the Romonovs. The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial...

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...

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. ** WINNER OF THE OVERALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AND BEST...

In summer 2007 former president Jimmy Carter caused uproar when he described George W. Bush's foreign policy as the worst in history. Not because people disagreed, but because it was...

The Clinton Tapes was a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, Clinton met with...

Branch interviewed President Clinton 78 times between 1993 and 2001 for roughly two hours each time. The President's side of those conversations formed the basis of his own memoir. Branch,...

1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words- 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate- short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a peculiarly...

On the afternoon of 1 March, 1815, a fleet of ships dropped anchor off the southeast coast of France. After ten months in exile on the island of Elba, the...

'The sudden appearance of an Australian school of painting is one of these blessed events which help to free the arts from the iron grip of historical determinism. We now...

For nearly 75 years, the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe with an iron fist. Conceived in 1917, the empire grew to the size of a large continent with satellites in...

This biography of Richard Rodgers chronicles the life of the composer by covering five decades of Americal musical history. It is a portrait of a complex man. The biography covers...

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global transformation is not as new as our pundits...

This biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts. What emerges is a picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and...

A most anticipated literary biography... The author of the much-loved My Brilliant Career had a remarkable career of her own. Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and,...

This is the full story behind Stalin's last, most complex and most puzzling conspiracy unravelled for the first time through access to previously unseen secret Soviet documents. On 13th January...

Continuously updated and revised prior to the release of this first English edition, "Picasso: Life and Art" is a single volume assessment of the artist and his work available. Daix's...

Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many...

The book titled The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by the author Edmund Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

A vivid account of the year 1967 and what impact it made on the Middle East and the rest of the world. 1967 did not mark the beginning of the...

Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot - the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known...

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House , welcome to Mordrake Manor... It's 1923 and at Mordrake Manor, a forbidding house on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem...

This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp...

'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE 'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS 'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERS It...

'Hugely entertaining history' - Mojo Between the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time. Their original...

A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess Diana Diana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels....

To mark the cetenary of the Easter Rising, and with extra material, this is the biography of Eamon De Valera by Tim Pat Coogan - the sharpest contemporary observer of...

The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had...

'Impossible to put down ... This is a book about coming out of hell, about great evil, about the triumph of the human spirit, and about the great goodness on...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding...

Albert Campion travels to Dorset as he attempts to get to the bottom of a series of shocking events connected to a TV adaptation of one of Evadne Childe's famous...

I was Top Gear 's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also...

** Endpapers available for a limited time only, pre-order to guarantee your copy now!** The games are over. Let chaos reign. Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds,...

'Sensory and visceral from page one . . . M. L. Rio is a force to be reckoned with' JENNIFER EGAN 'The sleaze of the Stooges, the energy of the...

Bursting with vibrant colour and imagination , advertising art made a dramatic leap in maturity as it soa red into the free love and ''me'' decades. Blik catches the wa...

A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA's Federal Theater Project. Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the...

This story poses a profound question - do we accept the hand that fate deals us, or do we battle to make the most of the life we have and...

This expose documents how a small group of Westerners came to be the victims of a form of diplomacy which was widely believed to have died out in the Middle...