20th Century History

'An unmissable reading treat' Lancashire Evening Post 'Beautifully written and emotionally charged . . . impossible to put down' HAZEL GAYNOR A heartwrenching and evocative wartime novel, perfect for fans...

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...

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact...

Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, adapted from...

WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power,...

The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama...

THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey...

Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Mies Giep- these are names that most of us recognize. What is less well known is the story of the thousands of other ordinary non-Jews...

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

This book is about the Royal Air Force Career of Tom Clark, who joined the RAF as an Aircraft man just before WW2 in June 1939. After "Dunkirk" he trained...

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that...

Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. 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...

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...

The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the...

Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years...

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...

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...

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris...

The book titled An Interrupted Life by the author Donald Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Heavily illustrated title covering the advance of the US, Canadian and British Armies west into Germany in 1945. The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west...

The book titled An Honourable Defeat: Fight Against National Socialism in Germany, by the author Anton Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

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...

This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...

Details how the Jews in Bulgaria were rescued from deportation to Nazi concentration camps by a crew of public and private individuals.

The book titled Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973 by the author Julie Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...

The book titled A History of Soviet Civilization by the author Andrei Sinyavsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first...

Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring and important. 'From 1939 to 1941, with Europe at war and the United States...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending...

"A masterpiece. . . . Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form."-Anthony Beevor "As gripping as any novel."-Robert Harris "A...

A major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars Intelligence gathering was essential to both sides in the First...

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick "A remarkable piece of historical detective...

Devoted wife, White House maid, reluctant activist... A stirring novel inspired by the life of an unsung heroine, and real-life crusader, Lizzie McDuffie, who as a maid in FDR's White...

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in...

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...

The book titled From a Roman Window: Five Decades of the World, the Church and the by the author Rosemary Goldie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...