20th Century History

Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimk'e (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career,...

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,...

Throughout his career in the CIA's elite Clandestine Service, David Doyle was the most senior Briton in the entire organisation. Having seen action at D-Day and with OSS, his CIA...

The book titled There Shall be Wings: RAF from 1918 to the Present by the author To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the RAF, the author has interviewed over 150...

Although he rarely gave interviews and never held elected office, Santamaria became widely known through his regular commentaries in the Australian and in his magazine News Weekly . Building on...

Like Angela's Ashes meets Bhowani Junction meets Empire of the Sun, a never less than engrossing, beautifully written memoir that reads like a novel. Kwan is an awkward, clumsy half-caste...

This book identifies Anthony Blunt as not the fourth man but the first man, who recruited everyone else into the net, but managed to convince his interviewers that he was...

'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The generation that survived the second World War emerged with...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...