20th Century History

Despite having once been sacked from the shadow front bench, Boris Johnson is still widely seen as one of the stars of the Conservative Party. His distinctive appearance ('Like a...

David Williamson is one of Australia's most significant and celebrated cultural figures. For over thirty years his plays have been the mirror to which many Australians have turned to see...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still...

The book titled Schieffer & Gates : Acting President (Hbk) by the author Bob Schieffer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Both highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Jim Cairns played in shaping Australian public life. Jim Cairns is a familiar sight around the markets...

The book titled The Pendulum Years by the author Bernard Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...

This is the first new Gore Vidal collection since Armageddon and A View From the Diners Club. Among the subjects covered are Mark Twain, John Updike, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman...

The years 1953-54 were marked by the conquests of two unattainable peaks - Mount Everest and the Four Minute Mile. But the dream of setting a new track record for...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES 'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero...

'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...

Are we alone in the universe? The History Hunter examines an unexplained disappearance to find out. In 1978, a young pilot vanishes during a routine flight over a notorious stretch...

Dozens of people have helped to create a new world over the past hundred years - some well remembered and some that have been forgotten. "People Who Influenced the World"...

This work features gifts from foreign dignitaries to GDR party leaders, as well as birthday and anniversary presents given to SED politicians. Several selected objects are also used as the...

Coups and Uprisings that Changed History; Revolutions have been called the motors of history. They have overthrown centuries-old regimes and empires, brought new and powerful ideas into the forefront of...

Set against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia, a mesmeric tale from the author of the award-winning bestseller The Light Between Oceans, which has sold five million copies...

With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby...

Mandela traces the life and work of South Africa's first democratically elected president. Beginning with his early years in a tiny village in the Transkei, the title follows him to...

For the first time ever, in one indispensable book-and-DVD package, "The New York Times" presents its complete front pages. The book reproduces a selection of 300 front pages covering the...

The book titled The Complete Military History of the Vietnam War by the author Douglas Welsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An unparalleled collection of rare international newspapers bring the historic events of WWII to life as they were reported, Beginning in 1919 with a report of the Treaty of Versailles,...

This account follows the vicious post-D-Day battles fought by the U.S. First Army amid the hedges, ditches and earthen walls of inland France. Illustrated throughout with battle maps and archival...

This account of Columbia starts in 1924 when the studio first opened; since then it has made over 3000 movies. Every feature-length film (running 50 minutes or longer) released by...

All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born Easter 1916, W B Yeats Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation,...

Italian artist Lucio Fontana tore apart the modern art establishment - literally. Trained initially as a sculptor, Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that...

Many of the worlds greatest pioneers, record- breakers, and achievers over the last century have been women. This anthology highlights some of the most accomplished women in the fields of...

The Chief and the Empire uncovers the extraordinary true tale of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi - the first influential Maori leader to cross the Tasman - whose curiosity...

In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her...

The year 1989 was the start of a monumental shift in world history. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the introduction of the World Wide Web, the unparalleled...

From Fishponds to Warships: Pearl Harbor provides a sweeping view of the region's past, from geologic origins to fishpond days, through the tense moments before and after the attack, and...

A rich, immersive novel about war, memory and loss, spanning three generations of one family BAD RELATIONS tells the story of a family fractured by history, geography and desire. On...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...

Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills... It's 1920 and Britain is trying to move on after World War 1. Clementine, who nursed on the front and suffered her own losses,...

The Sydney Olympics and Paralympics brought to the world's attention the army of fifty thousand volunteers who got the Olympic show on the road. Max Walker, a sporting hero himself,...

This unique work of reference provides a comprehensive record-from Tangier in 1662 to Bosnia in 1994-of every country in which each regiment has served. It includes details of all campaigns,...

Roland Dallas'' biography of the late King Hussein of Jordan is the story of an extraordinary man, the survivor of several assassination attempts and a man who was equally at...

The coup of August 1991 brought an end not only to Gorbachev's political career but to the entire Soviet Union: communism imploded, the Berlin Wall had been dismantled, Germany reunified,...

A documentation of the Renault Centre (winner of four awards), describing how it was designed and engineered, using documentation from the Foster Associates' archives. The author argues that it is...

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...

At its heart, this book is an examination of how a new structural material - mass-produced steel - came to be first applied to the buildings of one of the...

In summer 2007 former president Jimmy Carter caused uproar when he described George W. Bush's foreign policy as the worst in history. Not because people disagreed, but because it was...

The Clinton Tapes was a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, Clinton met with...

Branch interviewed President Clinton 78 times between 1993 and 2001 for roughly two hours each time. The President's side of those conversations formed the basis of his own memoir. Branch,...

1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words- 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak...

'The sudden appearance of an Australian school of painting is one of these blessed events which help to free the arts from the iron grip of historical determinism. We now...

This biography of Richard Rodgers chronicles the life of the composer by covering five decades of Americal musical history. It is a portrait of a complex man. The biography covers...

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global transformation is not as new as our pundits...