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

In this superbly researched examination, Charles Loft exposes the political failures that bankrupted the railways...  Read More >>

On June 10, 1944, Waffen-SS soldiers destroyed the French village of Oradour. In her study, Andrea Erkenbrecher...  Read More >>

A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart...  Read More >>

The first complete account of the secret battle of Skyline Ridge, 1972, when a ragtag Laos-Thai army supported by...  Read More >>

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. Trauma and Truth examines key works...  Read More >>

How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond...  Read More >>

"Behind the scenes of America's first TV war. ""With the proliferation of televisions, news networks strived to...  Read More >>

A superb photographic survey of the industrial railway scene in Britain throughout the 1960s and 1980s.  Read More >>

A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World...  Read More >>

"A Marine's Story ""Okay, Buddy, Let's Go! Hoorah!"" Mike lived by the Marine Sniper mantra: One shot, one kill....  Read More >>

Nuclear weapons were used to stop enemy troops, with 40 targets attacked and 70-100 10-KT weapons fired. There was...  Read More >>

This book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation – the compelling social research project...  Read More >>

In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to...  Read More >>

The greatest biography yet written on the man who made China  Read More >>

Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and...  Read More >>

This book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation – the compelling social research project...  Read More >>

This penultimate volume in the series, Volume 9, covers the period from the Japanese Surrender through the Chinese...  Read More >>

Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 19641985 is about how Brazilians and European solidarity networks...  Read More >>

"Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps...  Read More >>

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects...  Read More >>

Autobiography of a retired policeman  Read More >>

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years...  Read More >>

It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on...  Read More >>

Swift Sword is a powerful true account of the Marines of Mike Company, who faced overwhelming odds in a brutal Vietnam...  Read More >>

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects...  Read More >>