20th Century History

At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. It...

The book titled Design Museum Book of Twentieth Century Design: Pocket Edition by the author Catherine McDermott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Accompanying a London Weekend Television series, this book traces the history of popular entertainment in London from the end of the 19th century to the present day. From the Victorian...

Failure to foresee and defend against the US terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001 has drawn unprecedented public attention to the intelligence services and modern-day global espionage. From the CIA's...

The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists, Victor Lustig, written by acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford. An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man...

It's time to peel away the layers of a cliche that is not just useless, but harmful. The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth...

The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...

The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that...

Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success;...

Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988...

Denys Lasdun (1914-2001) was one of Britain's most eminent architects, whose career spans the entire period of Modernism in British architecture. His notable buildings include the Royal College of Physicians...

A celebration of the work of architect, Nicholas Grimshaw. It includes his plans for the new Stock Exchange in Berlin, and the new railway terminus at Waterloo in London. It...

The book titled William Alsop: Buildings and Projects 1989-1992 by the author Mel Gooding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...

The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother,...

An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...

A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand...

The last of nine volumes in The Penguin History of Britain, this volume explains the political changes that transformed Britain in the 20th century and attempts to make sense of...

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after...

This groundbreaking book looks at the influence California and Mexico have had on each other's architecture and design in the 20th century. The histories of Mexico and the United States...

In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...

Evidence: Brook Andrew is an immersive installation and publication that draws on the rich and varied Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection to explore the theme of evidence. Brook...

Ravensbruck Concentration Camp is the worst atrocity ever committed solely against women, but today the name of the camp is barely known. From Ravensbruck's earliest days, when Himmler offered his...

The book titled Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present by the author Michael Hunter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements,...

Our world is getting more complex every day. Faced by a media run amok, a rapidly expanding global economy, the collapse of national and social boundaries and the profound impact...

Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter. 'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes...

The book titled World Cup Cricket, 1992: The Complete Illustrated Record by the author Patrick Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A riveting and thought-provoking insight into the processes by which Tony Blair has taken us to war more often than any other recent Prime Minister. No Prime Minister in modern...

Shortlisted for the National Year of Reading 2012 Award January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government...

The book titled Marches Past by the author Peter Fuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by the author Sebastian Faulks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? This book...

The first Ideal Home Exhibition opened in 1908, founded by the "Daily Mail" as a publicity tool and a way of increasing advertising revenue. The exhibition dealt with the "art...

Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 'Unique, dreamlike and poetic. I loved it.' DEBSEY WYKES, SAINT ETIENNE AND DOLLY MIXTURE It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North...

The book titled Edwardian Architecture: Style and Technology by the author Richard F. Fellows. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Richard Fellows' book explores the many influences on Edwardian architects. New methods and techniques, a mixture of tradition and progress, as well as the influence of the arts and crafts...

Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are...

This overview of the artist's life and work examines more than fifty years of painting and drawing.

An illustrated catalog of buildings that have won national architecture awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of the twenty-five "Books to Remember 2000" by the New York Public Library. In this...

The book titled Clinton: The President They Deserve by the author Martin Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"London" and "Paris" are the first two titles in a unique new series of city guides focusing on modern and contemporary art - a genuine gap in the art and...

From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-Land A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by...

Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect's impact on the work of others, extending globally and...

The book titled Ple Cnik, the Complete Works by the author Peter Kreeciec. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS After creating...