20th Century History

This study offers a reassessment of the 1991 Gulf War, focusing on the role of biological and chemical weapons. The narrative reviews the events of the war, examines intelligence and...

The book titled Secrecy and Power: Life of J.Edgar Hoover by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...

This important book provides an invaluable guide to Scoland's new parliament. With his unique insight, gained in more than twenty years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Brian Taylor...

During the Cold War, both sides looked to govern artistic output. This is the story of the CIA's strategy to insinuate itself in every aspect of cultural life, in order...

Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country...

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War One: the British pioneer volunteers who...

This work combines a history of Hollywood with an analysis of how and why the entertainment capital of the world has consistently survived its own limitations to meet changing public...

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate...

From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us , an "extraordinary" ( The Denver Post ) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2019 Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe...

When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the...

In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere...

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...

The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then...

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict...

'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...

An accessible A-Z guide to best contemporary art made since 2000

In The Call of the Tribe , Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.The Nobel...

Following on from Osborne's first autobiographical book, "A Better Class of Person", this book looks at the period 1955 to 1966. It covers the foundation of the English Stage Company...

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in...

Seeking to reveal the cutting edge of the architecture scene in the USA, this text brings together examples of recent American housing and examines the meanings and origins of the...

`I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' These notorious words, spoken by Churchill in 1942, encapsulate his image...

The book titled America, Oil & the Islamic Mind: The Real Crisis is the Gulf between by the author Michael Youssef. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

This is a study of the political, social, and economic history of Britain during the period 1815-1906. The nineteenth century saw the building of one of the world's greatest empires,...

The book titled Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by the author Alan Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And...

The book titled War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970 by the author Brian Bond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials by the author Arnold C. Brackman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis...

In 38 Londres Street , Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...

The life of Gordon Langley Hall was full of mystery and riddled with rumour and scandal. The illegitimate son of two servants at Sissinghurst Castle, (home of Vita Sackville-West and...

Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also...

Exactly a hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution, and at...

The book titled The Second Russian Revolution by the author Angus Roxburgh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this irreverent, gossipy, questioning and amazingly well-informed inside story, BBC Arts Correspondent, Rosie Millard, identifies The Tastemakers, the cultural movers and shakers - artists, dealers, curators, art teachers, entrepreneurs...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...

The book titled The Sixties in "Queen" by the author S QUINN. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Life of Picasso magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irrestible narrative appeal. John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, with the collaboration of picasso's widow...

From Howell Raines and the "New York Times" to Roger Ailes and Fox News, America's most celebrated media journalist dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for...

Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary life of code-cracking genius, Alan Turing. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the...

In 1946, legendary broadcaster Norman Corwin traveled to 17 countries to document the postwar world for the radio series, One World Flight. Here, recently discovered and now published for the...

The painter and stained-glass designer William "Jock" Frater (1890-1974) was one of Australia's most prominent early Modernists. Today his work will be found in most public galleries and many private...