20th Century History

During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...

What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public...

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...

The book titled To Encourage the Others by the author David A. Yallop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain,...

The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In...

This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that...

Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era. The Edwardian era is often eclipsed in the...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

"The story of Windrush must not be sterilised, or overly simplified. It is not only a story of successful integration, sport and cultural icons, or even everyday heroes like my...

Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried...

This is the story of Flight Lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol of the RAF, whose Tornado was shot down over Iraq during the Gulf War. The book charts their...

A dazzling study of four figures who flourished in - and defined - the early years of the twentieth century. In his account of four characters, each of whose importance...

Since his retirement in 1979 after successive spells as British Ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn and Paris, the author has been prevented by the Foreign Office from publishing these revealing diaries....

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...

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...

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the...

Did your sweetie money stretch to Spangles and sherbet dips? Did you beg you parents for a chopper bike or a frisbee? This collection of reminiscences, original advertisments and personal...

The 1950s - Liberty bodices, suspender belts, little blue waxed paper twists of salt in packets of crisps, black Bakelite phones, and Ford Populars, Sooty puppets and Meccano sets. The...

Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....

The book titled The Pendulum Years by the author Bernard Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...

A rich, immersive novel about war, memory and loss, spanning three generations of one family BAD RELATIONS tells the story of a family fractured by history, geography and desire. On...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global transformation is not as new as our pundits...

A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess Diana Diana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels....

I was Top Gear 's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also...

The book titled King George VI by the author Sarah Bradford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Churchill (1874 1965) was one of the 20th century s most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

In 1936, King Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American divorcee. From her birth in Pennsylvania to her lonely end in Paris, this book traces...

As the centenary of his birth approaches, Anthony Eden remains one of the most controversial figures in the political history of 20th-century Britain. Using unpublished archival material, much of it...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the...

'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.' Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she...