20th Century History

Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Noam Chomsky is one of the worlds most respected linguists, yet his radical political ideas, while attracting legions of followers...

Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...

Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...

Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...

Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...

Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the...

Author: Will Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats...

Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...

Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...

Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...

Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...

Author: Imperial War Museum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Can you crack the toughest codes of the 20th century? Imperial War Museums have created a cryptographic challenge...

Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...

Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy...

Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...

Author: Sean McMeekin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant...

Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...

Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...

Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...

Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...

Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...

Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis...

Author: Frank White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer's morning in 1940. Following Dunkirk, the fate of the whole war will...

Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...

Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...

Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...

Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...

Author: Dan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready...

Author: Sebastian Haffner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty...

Author, MR William I Hitchcock (University of Virginia) Format, Microfilm Number of Pages, 454 American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from...

Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this...

Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...

Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...

Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...