20th Century History

J.P.Harris and F.H.Toase present a documented account of armoured warfare worldwide and look towards its future. Armoured forces have played dramatic roles in the 20th century and their operations have...

For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "The Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural...

No President has taped Oval conversations so thoroughly or found himself in as much trouble as Richard Nixon. He and his heirs fought for years to keep hours of these...

When Anchee Min left China in 1984 her knowledge of English was minimal. She tried to write this autobiography in her own tongue, but found it impossible. Only with the...

On 17th June 1972 five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building in Washington DC. That event - the circumstances which created...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...

The book titled King George VI by the author Sarah Bradford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Churchill (1874 1965) was one of the 20th century s most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a...

One of the most celebrated living artists in Latin America, Fernando Botero has gained international fame capturing the whimsy of life by painting corpulent and comical figures. His wide ranging...

More than 800 treasures of 19th- and early 20th-century art are reproduced in this book, which is in the same style as the successful "Paintings in the Louvre". The author,...

The book titled Picasso by the author Laura Payne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep...

The book titled The Inheritance by the author Samuel G Freedman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

By the time of her death in 2003 at the age of 96, Katharine Hepburn had long been an American institution. The following year, Cate Blanchett's striking depiction of Hepburn's...

This is an account of the events which led up to and followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The authors answer the many questions that still remain about the events of...

Features the great news stories which have broken in upon broadcasting throughout the BBC's prestigious 75-year history. Events include the moon landing, the deaths of Kennedy and Diana, the Suez...

Although John F Kennedy is perhaps the best-known American president of the 20th century, the many previous biographies ignore the importance of his formative years, just before WWII, when his...

Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon--the plain-speaking president, "Give 'em Hell Harry," the chief executive who put "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk. But Alonzo L....

Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI, Queen...

'A layered, beautifully written, and deeply moving novel. Karissa Chen masterfully blends love, music, history, and heartbreak to create a sweeping tale that spans decades and continents' Abi Dare '[...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...

Two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound, passion, innovation, and love of the arts that the renowned jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams shared with the world. Mary's Idea...

When a burned book falls into the hands of a young bookbinder, she uncovers a tale of forbidden love, a fortune lost ... and murder - which puts her own...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

If asked to name an Australian woman scientist from the past, very few could. Let's change that. Histories of Australian science largely overlook women. Their absence gives the impression that,...

What will the future of work, social freedom and employment look like? In an era of increased job insecurity and social dislocation, is it possible to reshape economics along democratic...

My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life. Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a...

Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly , Interesting Times offers a personal tour...

'One of the most immersive novels I've ever read . . . a thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Lovely and lyrical; a warm and wonderful intersection between journalism and fiction. This...

The book titled The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by the author E. J. Hobsbawm. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled An Interrupted Life by the author Donald Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Arthur Boyd is unquestionably one of Australia's greatest artists, his popularity and international reputation matched only by that of his friend and brother-in-law, Sidney Nolan. Throughout the course of a...

This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John...

The book titled The Death of a President: November 1963 by the author William Manchester. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation,...

Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts which still grace our seas. Cruising Yachts, his design manifesto, first...

The book titled Boxing: The Golden Years: Volume 2: Vol 2: 1950-1960 by the author Michael J. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The first comprehensive study of the various assassination attempts on Hitler - and a history of the Third Reich from an illuminating new angle. Most people have heard of the...

This first full-length biography of the Jewish-German trial lawyer Hans Litten won the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for outstanding work of contemporary history. During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers,...

Heavily illustrated title covering the advance of the US, Canadian and British Armies west into Germany in 1945. The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west...

WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO AND MCKITTERICK PRIZES 'A stunning debut novel' Kamila Shamsie 'An impressive, gripping...

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...

THE SECRET SERVICE. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed--and a country...

From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy...

The book titled VIETNAM WAR (TEXT BOOK) by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Hunt for Martin Bormann, Charles Whit ing, who interviewed all the leading participants, reveals t he true story of what happened to the "Brown Eminence". It i s...