20th Century History

The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's...

A beautifully evocative novel spanning 1950s Ireland to modern day America, from the author of bestselling Ask Again, Yes Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west...

From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, "Comrades" tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It...

A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief...

The bestselling author of PRESIDENT KENNEDY presents a stunning account of the brilliant and isolated man who destroyed his own presidency. PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White...

What transformed moral citizens into guillotine cannibals during the French Revolution and the Great Reign of Terror? The answer, argues Eli Sagan, is the same force that has killed millions...

Introduced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Ubuntu collection is a unique series of exquisitely produced small-format books that take inspiration from Ubuntu and are each founded on the work and...

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All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies...

The renowned attorney and author of Chutzpah examines several of the most controversial and sensational court trials of the past thirty years, offering insight into how they have shaped present-day...

First published in 2002.The aim of this book is to analyse and dispute a widely-held theory of Britain's 'economic decline' since the mid-nineteenth century, and to offer an alternative view...

"Stunning revelations...This is an account that long will be consulted by anyone trying to understand not just Iran but warfare in the 21st century...an important book." -Tom Ricks, "New York...

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book...

In May 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish activist named Alexander Rubowitz was abducted in broad daylight from the streets of Jerusalem. At the abduction scene, a gray hat was found, purportedly...

An indispensable introductory textbook that provides students with a genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. Paul Nugent explores a range of key concerns...

Originally published in 1992 to commemorate the centenary of Australia's oldest political party, this study contains an additional chapter which covers the two Paul Keating challenges and the political reversals...

Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, `Titanic Lives' is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history....

The author destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The...

Joint Investigation Teams have been adopted in several EU as well as non-EU documents as a new instrument to facilitate mutual legal assistance. This book provides professionals dealing with criminal...

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An inside perspective to global diplomacy from one of the world's foremost diplomats. Today, we find ourselves in arguably the most dangerous geopolitical situations of modern time. Outlining key moments...

Now available in a new and beautifully produced edition, this important examination of Modigliani's art focuses on the enigmatic genius of the avant-garde. One of the most recognisable artists of...

Dominik Schmitt (*1983) is primarily interested in philosophical and biological questions about the self and the unimaginably vast network of causes and effects to which everything in life is subject....

Recounts Keith Adams' Tasmanian childhood in the Great Depression and fifty years of extraordinary desert and crocodile safaris in an old Buick to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Borroloola.

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James Tissot is one of a small group of Victorian artists whose work is even more popular today than in his own lifetime, his paintings of elegant women in superb...

The paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) reveal more about 19th century taste than those of any other artist of the era. His elaborate reconstructions of ancient Rome depicting elegant...

- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2008'The train of events leading up o what has been called South Africa's epiphany has long been crying out...

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'I can't...

Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the most significant natural history expeditions. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the...

Long Island is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: a stunning novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and reignite a love once thought lost forever. The...

This visual bonanza shines the spotlight on 750 striking advertising posters for the musicals and plays of Broadway's golden age and shares untold behind-the-scenes stories. Fans of the theatre will...

By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie' was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful'...

An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold...until now. thoroughly researched and compelling a chilling account The Sunday Telegraph In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together...

The most famous rupture of European art in the 1890s was the Vienna Secession. It gave its name both to a unique form of art and to an extraordinary generation...

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In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity...

The Holy Alliance, later 'The Entity', a secret spy service, has been used by the Vatican for over five centuries to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on...

In this comprehensive survey of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe exposes the history of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Locating the...

John Darwin's After Tamerlane , a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of massive erudition and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire , he...

Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres and...

Sprinzak paints a disturbing portrait of the dark side of Israeli politics, exposing the shift from ideological dissent to violence and terrorism, culminating in the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. His...

Since the mid-19th century the art and practices of war, spurred on by the revolution in technology, have changed fundamentally and at increasing speed. It has therefore become supremely difficult...

The seventies are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. They encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret...

'We all disappeared', wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly...everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Globalization and Its Discontents comes a corruscating analysis of the boom and bust of the 1990s - how and why it happened, how the...