20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding...

The Great War - An Illustrated History looks at the causes of the war and the actual events themselves. Naturally, much of it covers the war on the...

Few events in the history of Belfast have had such a profound effect upon the memories of its citizens as the blitzing of the city in April and May...

A remarkable tale of a local airman, this book is based on a true story. It is a tribute to all those who the author describes as 'helpers' - the m...

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of th...

Britain's role and performance in the two World Wars continues to generate considerable debate but the wars are rarely considered together. Leading...

This is the story of one of the thousands of Polish Families who were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan by the Soviets in 1940. The Glindzicz fami...

During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns...

As the architect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini remains one of the most inspirational and enigmatic figures of the twentieth...

Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous strug...

At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000 personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside members of D...

In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular s...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal, northeast of Australia, launching the first major Allied offensive against Jap...

The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we dont always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the di...

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scape...

At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical...

This book is a catalogue of disaster - literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentiet...

Hans Schaufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as ...

On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had long and distinguishe...

The Territorial battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers (149 Brigade) served with distinction in France and Flanders from 1915 until May 1918. I...

Crammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death, over 1.5 million Armenians were murder...

The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despi...

The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Art...

Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared g...

Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding it...

Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dr...

On 19 February 1927, the city of Shanghai fell silent as a general strike gripped the factories of the industrial district. A magnet for foreign tr...

Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of conce...

Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove...

Asia After Versailles addresses an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The Co...

The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politi...

**Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the m...

This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of historical accounts have focused on the regular arm...

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, students of history will revisit the causes, conduct and aftermath of ...

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only dec...

In 1962 Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became independent countries; Barbados followed in 1966. In the years leading up to these events, the hist...

This book explores the history and ideas of the Scottish Conservative Party since its creation in 1912. You might not believe it now, but the Scott...

Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done f...