Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 books

The ‘Summer of Love’ brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary...  Read More >>

Stories, statistics and meticulous maps reveal new insights into forgotten rural history of 1953 East Coast Floods....  Read More >>

A detailed, illustrated guide to the Czech vz. 50 police pistol and the modernized vz. 70 version.  Read More >>

Senator Charles ‘Mac’ Mathias was a lifelong Republican who won every election in a 26-year congressional career...  Read More >>

La literatura contra el olvido. La historia real del únicoápied noiráejecutado por el gobierno francés durante la...  Read More >>

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In 1968, the country was in total chaos. There were war demonstrations and sit ins on college campuses and in the...  Read More >>

A rare and detailed insight behind the curtains of a Major Crime Department, which includes the hunt for notorious...  Read More >>

After World War II liberation of Jersey in the Channel Islands, 19-year-old Jean Parris discovers that a teacher...  Read More >>

The Old Dominion's defense of democracy... The Commonwealth played a central role in United States involvement...  Read More >>

Takes the reader back to the era of industrialisation during the time of apartheid in South Africa. The book makes...  Read More >>

This searingly honest but humorous account explores the realities of war - the tightrope between success and disaster,...  Read More >>

She’s also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons, Amory and Shep, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic...  Read More >>

"Kolyma: The Frozen Hell of Stalin's Siberia In the annals of world history, where tales of hope coexist with narratives...  Read More >>

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Historical reappraisal – history of the University When the Vienna School of Applied Arts was elevated to...  Read More >>

Asa Williams was the controller of a C-141 attempting to land at Kadena, Okinawa. The C-141 crashes into a Learjet...  Read More >>

"The 1st Battalion, 9th Marines (1/9), was born on the Marine Corps' 142nd birthday in 1917. Over the next 97 years,...  Read More >>

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On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China’s former paramount leader and now a revered elder...  Read More >>

This book takes a compelling look at how bilateral diplomacy in an era wracked by the Cold War created a culture...  Read More >>