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America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged
On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form....
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes this brilliant account of the post-war superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United...
Voices Against War
On 15 February 2003, an estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London to protest against the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of that tragic conflict, the...
The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air
In The Crash Detectives , aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes the reader inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present,...
Chief of Staff: Vol. II: World War II to Korea and Vietnam
The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the...
India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire
For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain's East India Company ruled enclaves of land in South Asia for a century...
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America October
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors...
Comrades: A World History of Communism
From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, "Comrades" tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It...
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
"Jeff Pearlman breaks down Tupac's life like a veteran sportswriter examining a dynasty. This detailed look at his life is the work of a writer who understands the ego of...
The Divorce of Nations: A Diplomat's Inside View as the Global Order
An inside perspective to global diplomacy from one of the world's foremost diplomats. Today, we find ourselves in arguably the most dangerous geopolitical situations of modern time. Outlining key moments...
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
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John Darwin's After Tamerlane , a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of massive erudition and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire , he...
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914
Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres and...
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade
'We all disappeared', wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly...everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep...
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last...
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991
THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...
Events that Changed the World: Over 100 Major Events that Have Changed
p>Events that Changed the World is a compilation of the most serious and memorable events that have occurred since the year 1900. Explorers take us to the top of Mount...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Abandoned?
The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Born in 1942?: What Else Happened?
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR** Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule...
Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -his success in seizing India's imagination...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of...
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline
The book titled High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline by the author Jim Rasenberger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator 'Enthralling...
Death Sat on a Pale Horse: the WW1 Experiences of Two Gunners of 3rd
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The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation....
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia
This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically arranged entries, and maps and diagrams integrated...
Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
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This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped
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A "magisterial" ( Sunday Times ) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk...
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
Factastic Millennium Facts
An insight into the milestone and events that have shaped our world over the last 1000 years. Packed with key political, social and cultural developments, it charts the march of...
Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology
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Visionaries of the 20th Century brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars,...
Amphibious Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations
A full history of the theory and practice of amphibious operations in the 20th century. The text takes the reader through a stage-by-stage account of amphibious tactical operations, and includes...
Ships without Names: Story of the Royal Navy's Tank Landing Ships of
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This is an illustrated account of these remarkable vessels which played a crucial role in the Allied offensives of the 1939-45 war. The American-built landing ship was a vessel of...
Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the
This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities...
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991
Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...