20th Century History

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992 it changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Never before had a senior...

Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, Winston Churchill will always be remembered for his leadership during the Second World War. His...

At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie...

General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...

The first ever authorized history of the British Security Service (MI5) To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...

In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in three government departments and...

Wilhide (expert on interior design) offers the first thorough examination of British architect Lutyens's work in interior and furniture design, revealing its enduring relevance and appeal. She traces the development...

Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the...

1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor...

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 'Supremely enjoyable . . . With a...

1979. Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets. After ten brutal homicides and the biggest police...

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded with Franklin D. Roosevelt for help....

Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own...

Elsewhere is the definitive oral history of British skateboarding. Told chronologically from the beginning of its identity shift to the start of the new millennium, the book explores the lasting...

Don't miss the brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller... Will a dark shadow destroy her family? As a servant below stairs at the big manor house,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times 'The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor' THE OBSERVER 'This isn't a book; it's...

For fans of ME ME ME, this is the next chapter in Charlotte Crosby's life - Celebrity Big Brother winner, MTV presenter, fitness DVD and book bestseller and one of...

A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026, ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR A football fan's dream come true. Every complete UK PANINI sticker album 1978-1993 reproduced together for the first...

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...

This is a book sure to delight designers, social historians and anyone with an interest in this style-defining decade. "The 1950s Look: Recreating the Fashions of the Fifties" takes the...

A heavily illustrated journey through the first decade of the 20th century, the first in a series of 10 books outlining the key events of the century by best-selling author...

On 21 March 1918, Germany initiated one of the most ferocious offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on allied positions in a series...

When writing his magnificent life of Robert Peel, Douglas Hurd found himself caught up again in a debate that has always fascinated him as a former diplomat and Foreign Secretary...

Out of this emotional turbulence came the poem "The Waste Land". Carole Seymour-Jones seeks to show that the poem cannot be understood without reference to the marriage. Based on papers...

A vivid, seminal portrait of early 1980s Britain- a period that changed Britain forever The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread- of Cold War...

One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the Sunday Times and Literary Review , Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a...

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...

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A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied,...

The work of internationally renowned photographer Anthony Osmond-Evans has featured in publications throughout the world. With this book, he presents a pictorial tour of the diverse peoples and landscapes of...

Pocket manual detailing the training and operations of the British pilots, ground crew and anti-aircraft gunners. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young...

An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake At its peak, the...

The Commandos were Britain's first-ever special forces, formed in 1940 using volunteers from all three services. After the war, Commando units of the Royal Marines engaged in virtually every military...

'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT 'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday 'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily Mail The cruel teachers. The pashes on other...

Critically acclaimed, candid, unsparing, surprising and darkly funny, this memoir of a 1970s upbringing by the much-loved broadcaster Justin Webb is as much a portrait of that strange decade as...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024 'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard...

Packaging is something of a hot topic at the moment, but in our eagerness to get rid of as much of it as possible we need to be careful not...

The Extension of the Franchise 1832-1931, covers the changes that took place in the size and composition of the electorate in Modern Britain and how those changes came about.

An epic and profound new novel from Sebastian Faulks, author of the Sunday Times bestseller BIRDSONG The epic and profound new historical novel set in post-World War Two Britain, from...

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson...

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman...

The first extensive history of the relationship between the UK Conservative Party and the European Union. The Conservative Party has been in power for 47 of the 65 years since...

'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest Man...