20th Century History

Revealing the Midget Class Submarines from X-Class to Stickleback. The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a...

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...

The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet they are fascinating from the point of view of...

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.

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...

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...

Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines...

A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain -...

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 guide to English literature from 1900 to the present day. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding modern literature, drama, poetry and the contemporary historical background, with...

OUT OF THE PAST is the first book of its kind to encompass the history of homosexuality from 1869 to the present, drawing on the experience of ordinary men and...

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'Vividly...

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...

Alec Cobbe (b.1945) established his reputation as a conservator of Old Master paintings before specializing in the redecoration and rearrangement of historic interiors as homes for masterpieces. His list of...

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...

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...

"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...

'Victoria Selman is an exciting and powerfully fresh voice' Patricia Cornwell 'Gravely compelling, sophisticated, terrifying' Chris Whitaker 'An absorbing and captivating read, this held me in its thrall from beginning...

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...

Many buildings erected during the Victorian age had no precedents, such as railway stations, large hotels and factories. New structures had to be planned from first principles and architectural styles...

Originally presented as Slade Lectures at Oxford University, the chapters of this book address a non-specialist readership and do not hesitate to condemn familiar but second-rate buildings like the British...

A LIFE OF HENRI MATISSE- VOLUME ONE, 1869-1908 'Spurling's account of Matisse's first forty years is gripping, full of shocks and colour, judicious and informative' A.S. Byatt, Guardian 'A terrific...

Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a read'... Love grows where you least expect it... July...

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

Art Under Fire focuses on the wars that have been such an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years; showing how war changed art in the twetieth century and how...

The colonial architecture of the 19th century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do...

The book titled Modern Painters by the author John Ruskin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In fin-de-siecle Venice, the designs by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser for the Wiener Werkstatten were informed by the intellectual movement of that time. In the following years, many of...

This volume presents the history of the Archigram Group which revolutionized British and European architectural thinking in the 1960s. Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Warren Clark and Dennis Crompton proposed a...

The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...

Mather's designs eschew ethnic reference to establish a family of coolly considered dining environments. John Welsh discusses Mather's three London-based restaurants -- ZenW3, Zen Central and Now & Zen --...

Sean O' Casey's Irish plays, among them "Juno and the Paycock", arguably place him amongst the great playwrights of the 20th century. This book explores the myth of O'Casey's slum...

A funny, intimate memoir by Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood , which recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls - the first and second time -...

An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number-one...

Insightful, gossip-filled memoir from legendary British fashion designer renowned for colourful, intricate designs who dressed everyone from rockstars to royalty. 'A vivid and compelling picture of the broader fashion landscape...

The latest novel by twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices...

Often described as the 'gay Gatsby' - Dancer from the Dance is the 1970s cult classic of gay liberation. 'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our...