20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which T...

President Ronald Reagan's folksy way with words and evocative delivery earned him the moniker The Great Communicator. From witty political challeng...

The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians. After the cheering stopped, American desert...

The Interim LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first ...

A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of CambodiaA richly detailed study that goes a long w...

As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India''s independence. Prime Minister Churchil...

A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from ...

How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing such catastrophi...

On June 14, 1919, a Vickers Vimy biplane lumbered into the air from a field in St Johns, Newfoundland. More than sixteen hours and 3,000 kilometres...

Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within ...

This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, k...

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among wes...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award.Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket cat...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalins dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.  In this compelli...

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...

Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani. Employing an insightful Judeoce...

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by...

Journey into the heart of Europe, 1918 a world left ravaged by World War 1, and on the cusp of radical change. Daniel Schönpflug's A World on Edg...