20th Century History

An outstanding and unassuming woman, Jean has led an extraordinary life, bringing hope and joy to people living in some of the most dangerous areas of the Middle East. Jean's...

Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book...

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and her path to becoming one of the world's most influential voices, with reflections on hope, happiness and...

South Africa was at war. Mostly with itself. For those in power in the most infamously segregated of societies, the enemy was not just on the northern borders or in...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...

A carpenter and builder by trade, Paddy Doherty was strongly active in the Civil Rights agitation of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was on occasion a victim of...

This memoir of former CIA Deputy Director Duane R. "Dewey" Clarridge offers revelations about clandestine activities he supervised in the world's hot spots. He offers us an account of Iran-Contra,...

This gripping memoir by a former American intelligence operative is a vivid portrait of a spy at every stage of his life and career. Raised in various countries around the...

Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...

Since his retirement in 1979 after successive spells as British Ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn and Paris, the author has been prevented by the Foreign Office from publishing these revealing diaries....

A truly amazing story of death-defying bravery and escapeMajor Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His...

A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces...

Stella Rimington writes: 'Nothing in my life ever turned out as expected. Having originally chosen a safe career, I ended up as leader of one of the country's intelligence agencies...

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...

First time in Modern Classics Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is...

Published on the 80th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author's birth Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration...

A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials and Summer This volume contains some of Camus' most intimate...