20th Century History

Sort by:
28 Books Found
February 2022
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

$34.99$12.00
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

$15.00
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

$34.99$12.00
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily...
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

$14.99$12.74
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

$50.99$15.00
Author: Clyde Haberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

$24.99$12.00
Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

$24.99$21.24
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

$34.99$12.00
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

$59.99$50.99
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

$22.99$19.54
Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
Catch-22

Catch-22

$19.99$16.99
Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

$22.99$19.54
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

$24.99$21.24
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

$32.99$28.04
Author: Virginia Nicholson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Interesting, gorgeous, wonderful.... this book displays the best of bohemia itself - playful, dazzling, original' Julie Burchill, Spectator 'Racy,...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

$22.99$19.54
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

$29.99$25.49
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

$26.99$22.94
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

$22.99$19.54
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
My Remarkable Journey

My Remarkable Journey

$32.99$12.00
Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

$35.00$29.75
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Island Song

Island Song

$29.99$10.00
Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

$24.99$21.24
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Kyiv

Kyiv

$32.99$12.00
Author: Graham Hurley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. 'Historical fiction of a...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

$22.99$19.54
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...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

$22.99$19.54
Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

$29.99$25.49
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Into the Fire

Into the Fire

$32.99$12.00
Author, Glenn Patterson Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 240 Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer... 'I tore through it' Erin Kelly 'Perfect storytelling' Victoria Selman 'A wicked plot'...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

$22.99$19.54
Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...