20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstandi...

After the fall of France and the allied retreat from Dunkirk, Hitler proposed the planned invasion of Great Britain. A secret aerial reconnaissance...

The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the...

The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the inco...

'No man, even the greatest, stands alone. This is the beautifully researched fate of those extraordinary men who stood behind Winston when it matte...

The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it u...

This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Defiants in England against the Luftwaffe and from Mal...

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the paramount Allied sabotage force of the Second World War. Its job - in Churchill's words - was t...

For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan's coastal towns and cities in the late 1970...

From early September 1944, Allied special forces teams were deployed in the occupied Netherlands to strengthen the armed resistance and gather inte...

This is the definitive account of a mission thought to be an impossible one. A powerful depiction, an astounding tale of courage and bravery by men...

In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentiet...

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the four...

In every movie, every television show, every novel of wartime intrigue, one phrase stands out as typically German: Show me your papers. The German ...

In 1921, a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named t...

This second volume focuses on the daily life of the German soldier when they werent involved in combat operations. It was during these breaks in th...

In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentat...

Richard Muller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin's metalwor...