20th Century History

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in...

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...

Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy...

This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...

'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities...

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing...

Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic...

John Curtin remains a venerated leader. His role as Labor's wartime supremo is etched deep into the national psyche: the man who put Australia first, locked horns with Churchill, forged...

On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. On a dark November night, Mary Poppins...

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Just when Jane and Michael Banks thought...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...

Life in the Folds makes use of an encrypted alphabet as a typographical and visual resource in approaching the project created by Carlos Amorales for the Mexican pavilion of the...

With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden stories behind the...

Drawing on her unique set of contacts Katie Nicholl recounts the royal brothers extraordinary lives and reveals William and Harry's real characters as they become front line soldiers and modern...

Written by Nigel Watson of the Antarctic Heritage Trust, and illustrated with Jane Ussher's stunning photographs, historic images and never-before-seen ephemera, this is the first book to fully document and...

This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon after its first publication in 1993; it it remains one of the most sought-after naval reference books. And with good...

Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...

Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...

An in-depth exploration of digital art, featuring artworks and interviews from 21 leading artists working with AR, VR, generative art, glitch art, data-driven art, and more. Art is rooted in...

In this collection of works by more than 25 contemporary ice artists, discover a fascinating art medium defined by its ephemeral nature. Merging creativity and engineering, today's ice artist can...

'This important back is written in many tones - lyrical, sardonic, angry, heartbroken.' Raimond Gaita, author of Romulus, My Father In Leave to Remain- A Memoir, Abbas El-Zein tells his...

"At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full... [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century."-David...

The essential historical references and documents in this volume reflect the character of the United States during the Revolutionary War. This compilation includes the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up...

"Eeeewww. Fake Barbie clothes." Those four words verbalise the faint disgust yesterday's savvy kids felt when, in the midst of doll play, an inferior, generic, or "clone" dress or top...

THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that...

Over the last century Britain has witnessed a royal family saga compelling, tumultuous and heartwarming. The constitution has been thrown into crisis by an abdication, royal divorces have become commonplace,...

Elizabeth R applies the classic formula of the Brief Life to the most recognized yet still mysterious woman in the world, Queen Elizabeth II. For more than thirty years Robert...

The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients...

At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...

"Rebel Hearts" is a detailed and revealing account of the psychological underworld of Irish Republicanism. Kevin Toolis has investigated the lives of men and women who, for the 25 years...

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates...

In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of...

"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...

In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...

This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

In her compelling memoir, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil shared the incredible story of her life in the turbulent world of Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s....

During the blitz on London in 1941, a sailor on leave couldn't wait to get back to his ship. "At least there," he said, "you can fire back at an...

David Remfry MBE RA has long been fascinated by the relationships that develop between dogs and their owners. In this charming new book, his delicate portraits in watercolour and gouache...

It has been said of Michael Zagaris' photographic oeuvre that it is the "last untouched rock archive." Zagaris was responsible for shooting everyone in the rock music scene in San...