20th Century History

The first book to tell the glamorous story of Hollywood in Rome and the women who made it legendary. Roman Holiday is the heady tale of Rome during the 1950s...

Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Severely burned by napalm, she ran from her burning village and was captured on film. Denise Chong relates Kim's experience and recovery...

In the late Eighties, Guns n' Roses were the biggest, baddest, band on the planet, a rock n' roll juggernaut that played era-defining songs like Sweet Child 'O Mine and...

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "An exquisitely told ... beautifully realised historical tale." - Mrs B's Book Reviews "A haunting and beautiful tale, weaving fiction and history together." - Demelza,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris...

First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the...

The Everfresh studio is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collaborate...

This priceless historical document features firsthand accounts from top levels of leadership in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, chronicling the struggle to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat....

The Extension of the Franchise 1832-1931, covers the changes that took place in the size and composition of the electorate in Modern Britain and how those changes came about.

The "golden age" between 1901 and the outbreak of World War I was generally a time of innocence and joy for Edwardian children. They were, however, still closely supervised and...

In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...

Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets....

From the multi-million-selling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in...

Prominent individuals from all walks of national life who died between 1986 and 1990, can be found in this volume of "The Dictionary of National Biography". The roll-call of distinguished...

'Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous . . . Oh, the stories I tell!' To a young girl the life...

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the...

March, 1917 Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood - the only home she has ever known - has become her...

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Martin Bormann. Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved...

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded with Franklin D. Roosevelt for help....

'Chillingly original' Max Hastings 'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor 'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum 'Britain's most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered'...

The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...

The book titled Images of Music by the author E. Auerbach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" ( The New York Times Book Review ) aviation history...

In But Enough About Me , legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert...

The book titled The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History by the author Larry Kimmett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Masterpieces by the author Kahlil Gibran. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Pictorial History of the Post War Years from 1946 to the 1990s by the author Neil Wenborn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as having '"tons of guts"' -CLARE MULLEY, author of...

History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's...

One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader...

An epic and profound new novel from Sebastian Faulks, author of the Sunday Times bestseller BIRDSONG The epic and profound new historical novel set in post-World War Two Britain, from...

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson...

Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman...

Packed with more than 700 photographs, many seen in print for the first time, this title tells the story of conflicts around the globe from, and including, World War One.

This book showcases the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago's Chess Studios in January 1969. Taken by the only photographer present, some of these photos were originally shown on...

The book titled Historical Fact-World War11o/P by the author Amanda Oneil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolutionaries to action? What were they...

The first extensive history of the relationship between the UK Conservative Party and the European Union. The Conservative Party has been in power for 47 of the 65 years since...

It describes not only the story of the estate and its very foreign owners, but also that of the English in eastern Sicily during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not...

Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in...

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole...

A complete account of the British maritime contribution to victory in World War II. For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence...

More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle....