20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

Plt Off Oliver Ormrod, better known as 'Sonny' to his RAF compatriots due to his youthful appearance, was just four days past his twentieth birthda...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best...

The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...

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 ...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had kn...

'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the contin...

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull ...

The very grubby coalface of foreign policy I found the entire book most horribly addictive Independent One of the unexpected responses to reading ...

Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating con...

A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million pe...

It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of T...

A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing Caitlin Moran Newman is a brilliant writer Observer A fr...

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description ...

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided ...

Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biogr...

'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in Decem...

FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery...

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every fronti...

A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace p...

The Sunday Times bestseller A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021 Highly readable deserve...

Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards i...

The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything h...

Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells Americas greatest untold story: the United States rise to world dominance un...

First published in 1916, A.L. Fowlers book of household tips is an indispensable guide to effortlessly becoming a domestic goddess. With long-forgo...

Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Grazianos intriguing book fuses t...

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stali...

The life of Gandhi, in his own words150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra'Generations to come will scarce believe that...

London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment ...

THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...

An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.T...