20th Century History

In 1991, after the Wall came down and the archives of Eastern Europe opened up, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the building that housed the files of the Stasi, the...

Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...

Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...

From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and...

With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...

As the EU enters an increasingly uncertain phase after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Euroscepticism continues to become an increasingly embedded phenomenon within party systems, non-party groups and within the media....

Born in Turkey in 1904, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to see his mother die of starvation, his sister abandoned to an orphanage (where she...

"Recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

The book titled Monet by the author Vanessa Potts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For the best part of the 20th century, Germany has either united the world in anger or driven it apart. Its late appearance on the European scene in 1871 might...

From Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, through successive attempts on Everest from Shipton in the 1930s through to Hillary's successful climb in 1953, and on through the conquest of...

The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real...

The book titled The Experience of World War II by the author John Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The most secret of agents are those known as "illegals", the committed professionals who adopt a carefully-crafted false identity and live in a host community as an unsuspected mole, often...

'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the...

In this riveting portrait of authoritarianism in peril, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the relentless battle between dictators and the people challenging their rule. We are witnessing an...

A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency, and with it came easy money, seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the financial crash in...

The book titled A Woman Named Jackie by the author C.David Heymann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is about the Royal Air Force Career of Tom Clark, who joined the RAF as an Aircraft man just before WW2 in June 1939. After "Dunkirk" he trained...

The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world's deadliest militia " Putin's Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of...

Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...

Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...

In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know . . .Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also...

From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 ....

A cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces a former Black Panther's tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader. Russell Shoatz was a gang member from age...

Set in 1940s Paris, this bittersweet, international bestseller is the perfect novel for fans of A Man Called Ove , My Name is Lucy Barton and The Guest Cat A...

Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...

This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally published in 1980, and was the first comprehensive and fully researched attempt to inform a wider public of the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS WRITING OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS A GUARDIAN...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

"Brings a creepy new note to Spencer's long-running series" Kirkus Reviews The discovery of a body on a local allotment site re-opens an unresolved cold case for Monika Paniatowski and...

The story of photography's first practicable colour process is also the story of fashion as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s....

The book titled The Great Betrayal by the author Nicholas Bethell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendome, the Hotel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American...

This volume forms part of the "Life and Times" series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical figures. This title is about the life and...

In May 2006, following a closely and bitterly fought referendum, Montenegro finally regained the status of an independent nation that it had lost in 1918 - the most recent chapter...

The book titled The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism by the author William Pfaff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Supported by an exhibition at Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2024, to be followed by an international tour, this is the first retrospective of one of China's most important photographic artists....

Since his retirement in 1979 after successive spells as British Ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn and Paris, the author has been prevented by the Foreign Office from publishing these revealing diaries....

For five years, journalist William Echikson has reported from Eastern Europe, travelling from Poland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south, documenting the daily struggle against the Communist system....

For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during...

A fresh, stimulating look at Adolf Hitler and his dictatorship throughout the study of ten key aspects. Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg...