20th Century History

Thousands of people have died at the hands of terrorist groups who rely on state support for their activities. Iran and Libya are well known as sponsors of terrorism, while...

A year-by-year history of people and events telling the story of jazz and the personalities which have formed this music style. Beginning at the turn of the century, the text...

This study offers a personal look at the progenitors of glasnost and perestroika. The book examines the first tremors of change felt during the 1950s thaw and the dissidents and...

John Dizikes tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural enviroment of America. The book includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences and theatres throughout...

A gripping period mystery about three women who solve a string of murders in their idyllic Californian neighbourhood. After all, who better to catch a killer than the women who've...

In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...

In the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin became an increasingly distrustful despot. He habitually picked on and humiliated members of his inner circle,...

The book titled The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr.Petiot by the author Thomas Maeder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a reassessment of Emperor Hirohito's reign and a social portrait of the 20th-century transformation of Japan. Hirohito was one of the longest reigning monarchs in world history. Coming...

'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth...

Chronicles the author's life in the mid-1960s, when she was struggling to come to terms with existence after the deaths of both her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. Coping...

The book titled Masks: Created by Celebrities to Help Young People Succeed - Calendar: by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A biography of Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the first Polish Narxist worker's party. A dynamic public figure, she was a powerful revolutionary, and a renowned theorist and speaker. This is...

The book titled Unfinished Journey by the author Yehudi Menuhin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...

'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes...

This third volume of Proust's letters covers the period when the writer was at the height of his powers, though he remained in bed in his cork-lined room for six...

Contrary to the claim that a diplomat is paid to lie for his country, former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd contends that from Machievelli to Metternich, from Sir Edward Grey to...

The book titled Adventures on the Freedom Road by the author Bernard-Henry Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris. The bureau's brief: to forewarn Tsardom of terrorist plans and, if possible, to defuse acts of terrorism against high...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence...

Russian musicians have left an indelible mark on 20th-century music. From composers to musicians, the Russian 'school' is admired universally. This book contains essays on the following great Russian musicians:...

Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism. Journalist, novelist, and poet Ilya Ehrenburg...

A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...

Officers from the U.S. Embassy, Scotland Yard, and MI5 broke into the bedroom of suave young American code clerk Tyler Kent. They found him standing beside his unmade bed, wearing...

This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...

The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. Roy Foster's new book looks at the roots of the changes which came with an almost completely unexpected wave of...

The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the 20th century "could have been Germany's century". In 1900, the country was continental Europe's leading power, its material strength and...

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W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded...

No composer has had a greater influence on the music of the twentieth century than Gustav Mahler. And in Mahler Remembered, Norman Lebrecht, an acknowledged authority on the life and...

Eric Gill was a typographer and lettercutter whose typefaces still feature in our lives, especially his Perpetua and Gill Sans. He was also a sculptor and wood-engraver. He was a...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...

A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more...

Robert Craft worked alongside Stravinsky during the last 23 years of the composer's life, collaborating with him in writing books and conducting his music. Now he has taken a further...

This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...

The book titled Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? by the author Richard Symonds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ramachandra Guha is one of the world's foremost historians and writers on cricket. Here he is offering three books to Picador. The first will be an Indian history of a...

In the late 1980s, when she began keeping a diary, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics - after Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, she was often spoken...

The book titled Khrushchev on Khrushchev by the author Sergei Khrushchev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until...

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem,...