20th Century History

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan...

The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society in the aftermath of the Second World War This last volume...

A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today After the...

Originally published in 1954, this book presents a concise explanation of the way in which production and prices are determined in the Western world. The text was written with two...

This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take...

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by...

Maureen O'Hara was born for Technicolour. Her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes made the screen crackle with electricity. Her bold Irish bearing cast her as the prototypical strong,...

*One of The Village Voice 's Favourite Books for 2012* This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and...

How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are...

This book presents for the first time a clear narrative analysis of the central events of the Islamic domains between the rise of the Abbasids and the Salijuq invasion. It...

Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...

This introduction to the Suez crisis covers the background, the invasion, and its aftermath. The text presents key primary sources, analysis of the significance of the sources discussed, and their...

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy,...

One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991-along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this...

This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story...

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction-a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He...

This concise text describes the swift and steady growth of the many small, isolated and self-sufficient societies that made up the fledgeling British Papua and German New Guinea colonies towards...

Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in...

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their...

After living abroad for 20 years, Henry James returned to his native America and travelled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida. This a journal describing his feelings on...

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...

'A gripping story of family betrayal, full of passion and anger ... moving and memorable' Rose Tremain 'Harrowing, poignant and ambitious ... a definite for book clubs' Nina Bhadreshwar What...

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking . One thing in...

Greta Garbo's uniquely photogenic beauty belies her great talent as an actress, as her performances in "Queen Christina" and "Camille" prove. A hint of a Garbo smile, touch, or glance...

Governments throughout Australia have been confronted with a daunting array of problems in the 1980s and 1990s. These include severe constraints on public enterprise, a crisis in the state banking...

'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest Man...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....

Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for America's National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way this frighteningly powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the entire...

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...

'An ingenious piece of historical reconstruction. It reads like a spy thriller.' Tom Gilling, author of Start Digging, You Bastards! In January 1941, the dapper, slightly built Major Hashida arrived...

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever...

This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age...

This book describes the background and course of the eight-year-long Gulf war and provides a general assessment of its political, economic and social effects on the rest of the world,...

Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He...

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin,...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...

The book titled Goldwyn: A Biography by the author A. Scott Berg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The author has spent the last twelve months in Moscow, interviewing wherever he went, and everywhere finding people eager to exercise their new freedom to speak without fear. From their...

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The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to...

The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This book, published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cold War, is a graphic account of this long-running global drama, which encompassed moments of high tension,...

This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders...

Art Nouveau defines the elegant, decorative style that flourished from the early 1880s to the beginning of World War I. This international movement came at a symbolic moment in time--when...

An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....