20th Century History

The Console Chronicles will take you on a unique journey through the history of gaming platforms. Fifty years ago, the home console was an anomaly that predated when everyone around...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

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...

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James Falconer returns in the third House of Falconer historical novel from multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford. The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London...

The Dutch architect Willem Jan Neutelings (co-founder of Neutelings Riedijk Architects) is known as the architect of, among other things, the MAS in Antwerp and the Gare Maritime in Brussels'...

In the past before the era of photography flowers were reproduced in paintings or drawings. In Flowers in History some of the most appealing illustrations that depict nature's colourful splendour...

In the past before the era of photography flowers were reproduced in paintings or drawings. In Flowers in History some of the most appealing illustrations that depict nature's colourful splendour...

Islam, the second largest and the youngest of the major world religions, has changed the world and left its mark on human history since the appearance of the prophet Mohammed...

This series depicts worldwide events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or...

Now available in a new edition, this chronologically arranged volume covers a century and a half of masterpieces which beautifully capture the development of art in the modern age. Starting...

The editors of the acclaimed Hi-Fructose Magazine present a stunning visual exploration of the intersection between the worlds of wearable art and fashion; where technology, sculpture, experimental materials, and otherworldly...

The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong...

In May 1987 the US guided missile frigate Stark, sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf, was suddenly blown apart by the air force of Iraq. A fifth of the...

Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...

John Perkins' controversial expose', Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, became an international word-of-mouth sensation, a long-running New York Times bestseller, sold over 20000 copies in Australia and NZ. But...

'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING 'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain , then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN...

In late 1999 the world watched as a small country became the world's newest nation amid a frenzy of destruction and killing. Now, Deliverance tells the inside story of East...

On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...

The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...

In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the...

In 1970 the SAS was called in to support the Sultan of Oman's armed forces in their bitter struggle against a Communist-backed insurrection. The task in hand was not to...

Out of the ruins and savagery of Second World War, the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth...

As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of the nascent Czech Republic, Havel led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in February 2003....

At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown - a world of unimagined freedoms and...

A bullet in the right place can change the world... Rebecca da Silva , former crack sniper in the British Special Forces stationed in Afghanistan, is languishing in a dead-end...

Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-23 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in...

In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...

'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding 'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph 'An...

The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world 'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang 'Essential reading' Chris Miller, author of Chip War On the coast of southern China, an eccentric...

Set in 1950's America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with...

This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in...

The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American life Stadiums are monuments to recreation,...

The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American life Stadiums are monuments to recreation,...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...

Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary life of code-cracking genius, Alan Turing. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the...

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of...

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...

The Museum of Modern Art is known for its superb collection of artworks accrued over the last century. While previous Museum publications have brought together selections of masterworks, never before...

No single event since World War II has marked this country's foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete...

For five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard, corroborated intelligence on Argentine intentions over the...

Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...

"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...