20th Century History

The games are over. Let chaos reign. Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds, she won San-Er's bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the...

It's 1947 on a U.S. Army base near Roswell, New Mexico, and eleven-year-old Kate's friend and neighbor, Billy, shows her a secret. A CIA agent arrives at Billy's house, to...

Like Angela's Ashes meets Bhowani Junction meets Empire of the Sun, a never less than engrossing, beautifully written memoir that reads like a novel. Kwan is an awkward, clumsy half-caste...

The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as...

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...

In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...

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...

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress...

In 1945 Britain emerged triumphant and victorious from the Second World War. On 26 July, after a landslide Labour victory, Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and the nation looked forward...

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium. British seaside resorts enjoyed phenomenal popularity for much of the twentieth century....

'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to...

"A warmhearted story that will resonate with anyone who has ever dreamed of reinventing themselves." - Kirkus Reviews It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different....

A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have...

On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner...

The catalog published for the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in 2000 retraces all of the projects by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957), through documentation of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * With shocking revelations that made headlines all across the country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind...

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...

"A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring...An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman ." New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "Told with warmth and grace,...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism. This catalogue raisonne of is a complete repertory of his painted work, from his...

' In The Poet's Game , Vidich confirms his place in the pantheon of the new generation of spy novelists. Once again, his elegant, finely developed characters add nuance and...

The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...

The book titled The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

"Soviet Foreign Policy Today" focuses on the highly personal nature of Gorbachev's leadership and the links between his domestic and foreign policy. To place Gorbachev's radical alternatives to Soviet policy...

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the most important books of our...

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and...

When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the...

Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...

An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually...

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de...

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...

This beautifully illustrated volume explores the inextricable link between Ai Weiwei's art and his politics. "Everything is art. Everything is politics," says internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs...

Contemporary artists examine the human condition from all sides in this riveting collection of American art that questions how we represent ourselves in the 21st century. In an age of...

The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly unknown aspect of his oeuvre to the public for the first time. Aside...

he Royal Academy's popular Summer Exhibition has been an annual event since 1769. Today, around a thousand works are chosen each year from over 12,000 entries. The exhibition, which includes...

The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul...

The first publication to bring together three major twentieth- century photographers - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert - presenting their artistic responses to three great world cities across...

Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science...

Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...

The first book to recount the extraordinary story of Fleet Street's Murder Gang. The Murder Gang recounts the remarkable true story of the elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime...

The real woman behind our throne, her life and loves As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture...

Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth...