20th Century History

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...

In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues...

The name TIME-LIFE has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. Now, as the U.S. commemorates the 70th...

'Those looking for the next Lessons in Chemistry - a story of ferociously bright, feisty women holding their own in a man's world - may have found it ... this...

'Those looking for the next Lessons in Chemistry - a story of ferociously bright, feisty women holding their own in a man's world - may have found it ... this...

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...

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...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' ( The Times ) - also including puzzles and a quiz! Tom...

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...

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...

In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of...

The problem-solving capacity, and hence the democratic legitimacy, of national governments is being weakened by the dual processes of legal and economic integration in Europe; and the loss is not...

The book titled Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles by the author Ved Mehta. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

James Doty grew up in California, deeply poor, with an alcoholic father and an invalid mother who tried to commit suicide. His life was a dead end until the summer...

The book titled Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by the author Dominque Lapierre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Life and Times of Edward VII by the author Keith Middlemas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'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...

In September 1958, only minutes into a professional road race, Australia's best cyclist, Russell Mockridge, was dead, his head and body crushed under the wheels of a bus. The death...

In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American,...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more...

The beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo 'Frida will hold its place as the first comprehensive biography of this most visceral of artists' Observer 'Mesmerizing' Time Frida is...

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...

Richard tomlinson was recruited by M16, the British foreign intelligence service, during his final year at Cambridge University. He was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

The book titled House to House: An Epic of Urban Warfare by the author David Bellavia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Tied to a Channel 4 television series in three one-hour parts, this is the story of the breaking of the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. That...

'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMAN From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant...

The book titled Ataturk: the Rebirth of a Nation by the author Patrick Kinross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The History of the Royal Air Force, 1939-89 by the author Chris Chant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Digger's View - WWI in Colour offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life...

This work provides a comprehensive description of Islam's long and dynamic history. It provides a survey of the history of the Islamic world and of Islamic civilization from the time...

First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, the first part of a three-volume pictorial history of the RAF, which contains many rare and previously unpublished photographs from collections...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is a proper piece of journalism. It's a fascinating book. I read it from start to finish in a single sitting' Alastair Campbell, THE REST...

'Compelling' Guardian 'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times 'Excellent' The Telegraph 'Astonishing' The Times 'An eye-opener' Gavin Esler Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success....

Do boycotts work? Should arms sales be stopped? What about supplying weapons to the good guys? In How Wars End an international expert explains how we can act to bring...

'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....

The book titled Edifice Complex: Power, Myth and Marcos State Architecture by the author Gerard Lico. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines by the author Greg Bankoff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MOORE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China ....

'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN'An excellent short...

Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his...