20th Century History

Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads from time immemorial. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis...

In The Origins of Political Order , Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in...

From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou . 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE...

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict...

Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as...

Comparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avantgarde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,...

In the early morning of 9 April 1940, a fleet of German battleships entered the Oslofjord. Norwegian artillery delayed them long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to...

In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. This...

Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. The hospitality,...

A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland...

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie lived with his family and adorable dachshund, Lulu, in the beautiful city of Leipzig in...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel' Jodi Picoult 'It emotionally wrecked me' **** 'Fabulous' ***** 'Breathtaking' **** 'Heart-breaking' ***** 'A truly...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE A Financial Times , New York Times and Times / Sunday...

This absorbing study describes and illustrates the Indian Army forces that fought in five wars during the second half of the 20th century. The Indian Army is the world's largest...

Written by a noted authority, this fully illustrated study describes and depicts the machine guns equipping Soviet and Russian troops after 1945. Following the USSR's victory in World War II,...

An illustrated account of the development and action-packed service history of the Jaguar attack jet, featuring first-hand accounts from the pilots that flew it into combat. Developed as a joint...

An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations of Wilde Sau fighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich. In July 1943, the Nachtjagdverband...

Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy. After the American Civil War, the powerful US...

The SBD Dauntless dive-bomber was a key cog in the US Navy's aerial arsenal throughout the Pacific War. Although a product of aviation design in the mid to late 1930s,...

Following the American Declaration of Independence, communities from Boston to Savannah were forced to make a choice: to strike out for an independent republic, or remain true to the British...

For fans of ME ME ME, this is the next chapter in Charlotte Crosby's life - Celebrity Big Brother winner, MTV presenter, fitness DVD and book bestseller and one of...

A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting...

Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a...

CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR - SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET SOCIETY - MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Meticulously researched and unputdownable... splendidly atmospheric' - THE TIMES 'A wonderful book... an...

2026 PROSE Award Finalist in Art History & Criticism What was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the...

From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this Bloomsbury Revelations edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks ....

After the German attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krakow, were occupied by the Nazis in an administration which became known as the...

Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T'hami el...

The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States - former fast friends. Despite the US's relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a...

AT THE PLAZA is a pictorial record and anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel, The Plaza in New York. At the same time, it's a chronicle of the...

A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied,...

The most influential political writer alive today presents a state-of-the-world look at America's global power and politics 'As long as the general population is diverted to consumerism or hatred of...

Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom , former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the...

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...

'Heartwarming, nostalgic and poignant' Lucy Clarke 'Both achingly funny and poignant' Sally Page 'Tender and uplifting' Kate Storey Buy a lottery ticket Win your wildest dreams Lose everything...? One lucky...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...

'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style 'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan ' Mad Men meets White Lotus ' Red 'Stylish and twisting' The Times 'A...

Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...

The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas...

"Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. Take for example a small outlying...

'A spellbinding tale of love, lust, magic and betrayal in Imperial Russia... I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run....

A WATERSTONES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR A LITERARY REVIEW CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a cosy crime novel as you'll ever read' JANICE HALLETT 'A masterful voice...

In a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures. This inventive exploration...

As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...

"A classic story . . . delivers real news from Cuba in a lyrical way."-NPR Available for a new generation, Wendy Guerra's intoxicating and heartrending classic-a portrait of economically depressed...

'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...

On 14-15 May 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. It was among the top...