20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

The incredible story of how Australias greatest maritime mystery was solved.In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australias wartime fleet, an...

Edition of young men's magazines from just before the First World War, presenting a vivid and touching picture of life at the time. The Angels' Vo...

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.'Rich in detail and drama. Enthra...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...

''The best book about the subject I have ever read'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times''Halik Kochanski''s Resistance reads less like a work of history an...

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire. (Fred Ross). Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would stay...

Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fa...

Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell''s richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A T...

Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discov...

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World His...

This absorbing book brings together the true stories of fifty service men and women from North Lancashire and Cumbria. Tales of life in the militar...

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 ...