20th Century History

A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel. When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our...

The book titled Stalin: Man and Ruler by the author Robert H. McNeal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the bestselling author of "The Snow Geese" comes a mesmerizing tribute to an adored older brother. When William Fiennes was a small boy, his parents inherited an extraordinary home:...

In 1979 Rees helped Andrew Boyle unmask Anthony Blunt, the fourth man, but by then Rees himself was dying of cancer. Was Rees himself actually a spy? The recent opening...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

The book titled Gentleman Spy: Life of Allen Dulles by the author Peter Grose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

The book titled The Second World War Diary, 1940-45 by the author Hugh Dalton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship - tender, strained, and in the end tragic - between a young Englishwoman who...

Susana Walton tells the story of her life with William Walton to the time of his death in her arms in Ischia, Bay of Naples. She includes anecdotes and reminiscences,...

The book titled Lilliput Goes to War by the author Kaye Webb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the...

West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

One of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was also a prolific and gifted writer. Besides producing diaries, short stories, dramas, reviews, and...

This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...

After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...

Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching...

The first freely elected head of state in Russia's 1000-year history, Boris Yeltsin ended Soviet military occupation of Eastern Europe, introduced the free market economy and, most importantly, forged and...

The book titled Travels Through the Third World by the author Brian Schwartz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...

A KGB colonel who defected to the West and an expert on the intelligence community reveal the inside story of the Soviet KGB and its penetration of Western government and...

The book titled Selected Letters: v. 2 by the author Marcel Proust. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this follow-up to the bestselling Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed (2011), Mandy Wiener examines the nexus between organised crime figures, corrupt police officials and powerful politicians. Ministry of Crime...

Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...

This book explores the background to the cataclysmic changes which have occurred in the former world communist systems. It applies the idea of civil society - a traditional concept of...

The book titled The Red Web: MI6 and the KGB Master Coup by the author Tom Bower. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

An original study of the influence of American art on art of the 20th century and the works of such people as Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry...

First published as a two-volume history "British buses before 1945" and "British buses since 1945", this combined volume is updated to bring the story up to the end of the...

This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...

This provocative analysis challenges the belief that, in the first half of this century, Australia was dependent on Great Britain. Instead, "Markets, Money and Empire", suggests that Australia enjoyed considerable...

The book titled Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History by the author John W. Young. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

The book titled The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by the author Roy Mottahedeh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Today, vibrant contemporary cultures are flourishing in the Pacific Islands. Instead of mimicking Western culture, artists there are leading the way. Discover the new art of the Pacific in this...

The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...

How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

With a foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Major, The Queen: The Diamond Jubilee is a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, from...

Modern globalisation is producing far-reaching changes for communities, regions and nations, and creating new types of social, political and economic challenges and opportunities. More than just being an economic phenomenon,...

In 1900 the great European Empires stood prosperous and strong in the centre of the world stage, surrounded by an aura of glamour and optimism. By 1945 the old order...