20th Century History

Celebrates the centenary of Arcadia, the South African Jewish Orphanage from 1906 to 2006. It includes the stories and recollections of over 120 of the children of Arcadia and the...

The conflicts in Kosovo and East Timor, looked at side-by-side by Noam Chomsky, starkly illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. Chomsky convincingly argues that humanitarianism...

The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a...

The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different...

Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. Native...

Journey into the heart of Europe, 1918 - a world left ravaged by World War 1, and on the cusp of radical change. Daniel Schoenpflug's A World on Edge paints...

The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the...

Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it...

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction. The first battle book from...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."- Entertainment...

In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence-forever known as Lawrence of Arabia-recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with...

An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...

This text explores the conflict that began in 1756 and ended in 1763, generally known as the Seven Years War, which the author believes laid the foundations of the British...

The phenomenally successful FORGOTTEN VOICES series, based on eye-witness accounts taken from the Imperial War Museum's vast sound archive is now collected together for the first time. LEST WE FORGET...

Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munich - namely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger war - American presidents...

An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition ) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how...

'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...

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...

A nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation - and the iconic DH60 Moth in its centenary year 'Vivid and entertaining' TLS 'A wonderfully affecting, highly entertaining, at times...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania --pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...

News about the ongoing situation in Iraq dominates the news. From the almost daily terrorist incidents to difficulties encountered by the U.S. forces there to manage the changeover of power...

There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds...

This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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 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 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...

The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born...

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...

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...

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**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...

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...

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...

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...

Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Where the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its full extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North...

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...

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....

Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...