20th Century History

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....

At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...

In the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal-not just its practical policies...

In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor...

Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on...

Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art,...

Since September 11th 2001 and the commencement of the war on terror', the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between US foreign policy in the Middle East and...

The Great War Illustrated 1917 covers the battles at Arras, Passchendaele and Cambrai, the use of aviation and the role of the tanks. Some images will be familiar, and many...

One woman's harrowing story about life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After...

Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we...

Insightful, incisive & enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his...

Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A. N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward...

The finest book on Britains most popular rock n roll bandRead on ... Its all true Noel Gallagher Featuring an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher ahead of the Oasis Live...

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition of works on paper by thirty-eight 20th-century British women artists in a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels, complemented...

Covering over four decades of work, John Hall: Travelling Light is an exquisitely illustrated retrospective on one of Canada's most established contemporary artists. Hall's hyperreal paintings can be seen a...

The large-scale group exhibition, Material Girls, which this book documents, was an exploration of material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space, and...

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton through summer and fall 2015, curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art...

In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...

A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its...

As 20th century sport gallops headlong towar ds the millennium post in a blanket finish, Frank Keating as ks who and what was the best of the century. '

From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...

Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables,...

Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand. Pitman Shorthand was developed by Sir Isaac Pitman from 1837 and became the most...

Phil Collins was everywhere in the 1980s. He had more top forty singles in the US than any other artist during the 1980s: fourteen as a solo artist and eleven...

Collection of WW1 stereographs offers a unique photographic journey through the war that allows us to glimpse a realistic view only previously available to those that were there. The First...

After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of...

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla. This book adds to the Gallipoli story and the preceding Battleground books on...

'Wars are not won by evacuations' 'We can take it!' 'Westward look, the land is bright' This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous...

During World War II in Europe, the author's Field Artillery Forward Observer's telescope provided a unique view of American battles from Normandy to final victory in Germany.

This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...

Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son,...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect...

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...

A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film,...

This publication presents the report of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) during the 28th month period from May 25, 1973 when Archibald Cox took office as Special Prosecutor to...

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led....

Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. "Groove Tube" is Aniko Bodroghkozy's rebuttal...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...

Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous...

The economic power of US corporations and the virus-like power of American popular culture affect the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. The foreign policy...