20th Century History

For 40 years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet...

The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the...

The second volume of Ray Monk's biography of Bertrand Russell focuses on Russell's tragic and moving relationship with his first son John. It traces the story, from Russell's ecstacy at...

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public...

The book titled This I Cannot Forget: Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow by the author Anna Larina. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Fidel: A Critical Portrait by the author Tad Szulc. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Utopia in Power: History of the U.S.S.R. from 1917 to the Present by the author Mikhail Geller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

In 2005 an old canister of film was discovered in a Devon church. How it got there was a mystery and its contents were tantalizing. The grainy black and white...

Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's authorsubjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life...

The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein...

This is a brilliant reinterpretation of the negotiations between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin that divided Europe and laid the foundations for the cold war. Gardner argues that the quest for...

The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,...

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...

This is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold...

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The book titled Ataturk by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine by the author Jasper Becker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on...

Two centuries later, the French Revolution-that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy-continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only...

The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world. In...

The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment...

Rex Wade here presents a new history of one of the pivotal events of modern history, combining his own long study of the revolution with the best of contemporary scholarship....

The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Gwynne Lewis provides the first short introductory history of the French Revolution to relate the social, economic and cultural to the intellectual and political. Combining interpretive narrative with thematic analysis,...

The book titled A House with Four Rooms by the author Rumer Godden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom" brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive...

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For...

Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the...

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...

This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...

Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett's Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the...

The book titled The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist by the author Anthony Glees. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Mary Ward (1851-1920) had a furiously active public career, her literary and philanthropic activities transforming her from an eminent Victorian into a pre-eminent Edwardian. The granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, she...

The book titled The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder by the author David Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1940, Edmund Wilson published "To the Finland Station", a study of the growth of the idea of communism. This book examines the lives of such men as Bukharin, Koestler,...

In the summer of 1992, accompanied by Philip Marsden, the exiled poet Zofia Hinska stepped into the Belorussian village where she had spent her childhood. The Bronski House is in...

Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra- like...

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness....

With the publication of her landmark bestseller "Paris 1919," Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" ("The Philadelphia Inquirer"). Now she brings her...

In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...

The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...