20th Century History

This long-overdue book charts the career of Sparks from 1969 1979. Every album and every song is examined, including some which are still officially unreleased. Beginning with their early recordings...

The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the...

The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service...

The sparkling sun, soft sand, and cool, clear waters of Miami have attracted elite visitors from around the world for well over a century, laying the foundation for a culture...

Since World War II, the US 101st Airborne Division has achieved legendary status. But within the ranks of the 101st there existed a rougher, tougher and more ruthless unit whose...

In August 1914, Russia entered the First World War, and with it, the Imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict from which they would not emerge....

Derek Pringle is finally ready to tell his story of cricket in the 80s. First chosen by England whilst still at university in 1982, Derek featured in the national side...

The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in...

Classic Stories of World War II is a collection of fiction and non-fiction excerpts from the works of world-class authors who lived through the conflict. Authentic and impassioned stories reveal...

David Eshel served in the Israeli Armed Forces and attained the rank of Colonel. In this book he describes 23 battles that stand out because of the bravery of the...

Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad...

Joe Read was 15 years old when he was caught up in a moment in history no one will ever forget. Winston Churchill called it 'a miracle of deliverance' when...

The images and words adorning the walls of East Timor reflect the country's tumultuous history, precarious present and hopeful future. They endow the social landscape with a rawness and honesty...

A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of...

Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge...

The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Originally published...

Now available in a new convenient format, this book is an accessible guide to the art of the twentieth century. A complement to the landmark The Art Book it showcases...

A New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year. A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history...

The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the world's leading thinkers and a startling picture of the turbulent world in which we live.

The first edition of "The New Cold War" was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous...

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers, both in and...

#1 Bestselling Author of Liar's Poker guides us through the mayhem From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled...

A collection of autobiographical writings by the most zanily imaginative and brilliantly barking commentator of the post-war era This is the second volume of Vonnegut's autobiographical writings - a collage...

A provocative, timely assessment of how 20th century world history was created, and what this history means for us today In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have...

An organisation that doesn't exist. A spy that can't be caught. Years ago, a spy was born... 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a...

Half-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S. Army's elite-the Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded...

The inspiring and entertaining memoir from national treasure and star of Only Fools and Horses, Sir David Jason Sir David Jason's career, from the outside, might seem like one glorious...

This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible, previously untold story of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit THE UNTOLD...

ONE OF THE OBSERVER 'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS' OF 2021 'Powerful and heartbreaking' OBSERVER 'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private languages, their shared...

Derek Pringle is finally ready to tell his story of cricket in the 80s. First chosen by England whilst still at university in 1982, Derek featured in the national side...

This history aims to provide an impartial view of one of the most controversial issues as it tells how the abortion debate changed the legal and political systems of Canada....

Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of...

George W. Bush's election and the fear and confusion of September 11 combined to allow a small group of radical intellectuals to seize the reins of US national security policy....

Modern Art takes the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situating these within five broader chronological themes. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, Dempsey proceeds through the essentials...

More than twenty-five years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Originally published in 2007, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's...

I was born, September 1985, in the vortex of the Lower East Side of New York: there were few rules of life and zero constraints on behaviour. If you were...

Schwab discusses how myriad Subsaharan African states have all but ceased to exist as organized entities, with some spiralling into complete disintegration. Several were propelled into tyranny, others collapsed into...

This is a new edition of the first volume of the biography of the poet Robert Graves, giving an account of his early development. The author - the poet's nephew,...

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion...

'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times ' The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read'...

Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban, suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by human figures. Her...

Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk to Britain s sea lines...

"The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love ... It'll be huge; it deserves to be" Marian Keyes, author of The Break London, 1940. Emmeline Lake and her...