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

17128 books were found.

A Day in Hell on the DMZ: The Rocket Attack on Firebase Charlie 2 in Vietnam, May 21, 1971

A Day in Hell on the DMZ: The Rocket Attack on Firebase...

Author: Lou Pepi
ISBN: 9781476688398
Format: Paperback
$48.40

At ‘zero dark thirty’ on January 30, 1971, units of the US Fifth Mechanized Division left their firebases along...  Read More >>

Autobiographical Cultures in Post-War Italy: Life-Writing, Communism and Feminism

Autobiographical Cultures in Post-War Italy: Life-Writing,...

Author: Walter S. Baroni (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780755636112
Format: Paperback
$61.99

After the Second World War, two contrasting political movements became increasingly active in Italy - the communist...  Read More >>

Bravery Knows No Bounds

Bravery Knows No Bounds

Author: Norman Fry
ISBN: 9780992571399
Format: Paperback
$38.81

During the Vietnam War the New Zealand Defence Force deployed a number of individuals, a number of small military...  Read More >>

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University...

Author: Laurie Matheson ,  Tammy L. Kernodle
ISBN: 9780252044588
Format: Hardback
$239.00

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the...  Read More >>

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

Author: Paul Clayton
ISBN: 9781087900032
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident

The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian...

Author: Myroslav Marynovych ,  Zoya Hayuk
ISBN: 9781648250576
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the...  Read More >>

To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the...

Author: Emily B. Baran
ISBN: 9780228010555
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing...  Read More >>

Two Years to Serve: Recollections of a Drafted Marine: Half a Century after the Vietnam War

Two Years to Serve: Recollections of a Drafted Marine:...

Author: Thomas Elliott
ISBN: 9798885909419
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In 1966, at the age of 20, Thomas Elliott was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps. The transformation from carefree...  Read More >>

Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy

Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality...

Author: Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard (Lunds Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781108797184
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle...  Read More >>

China 1949: Year of Revolution

China 1949: Year of Revolution

Author: Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford China Centre, UK)
ISBN: 9781350336636
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"""Excellent."" The Economist ""A gripping account."" South China Morning Post ""Well worth reading."" The Morning...  Read More >>

Two Years to Serve: Recollections of a Drafted Marine: Half a Century after the Vietnam War

Two Years to Serve: Recollections of a Drafted Marine:...

Author: Thomas Elliott
ISBN: 9798885909402
Format: Hardback
$54.31

In 1966, at the age of 20, Thomas Elliott was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps. The transformation from carefree...  Read More >>

Republic F-105 Thunderchief: Peacetime Operations

Republic F-105 Thunderchief: Peacetime Operations

Author: Theo van Geffen ,  Gerald Arruda
ISBN: 9781913870669
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book not only gives in-depth accounts of various historical F-105 events, with inputs from the pilots involved,...  Read More >>

Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam: God, Redlegs, and Blueboys

Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam: God,...

Author: Robert Adams
ISBN: 9781088065341
Format: Hardback
$211.17

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Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties

Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global...

Author: Zeina Maasri ,  Cathy Bergin
ISBN: 9781526161567
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the...  Read More >>

A Soldier's Heart: The 3 Wars of Vietnam

A Soldier's Heart: The 3 Wars of Vietnam

Author: Raynold A Gauvin
ISBN: 9781039100930
Format: Paperback
$46.55

A Soldier's Heart is a moving and expansive memoir by Vietnam Veteran Ray Gauvin. The story takes us from the French...  Read More >>

A Soldier's Heart: The 3 Wars of Vietnam

A Soldier's Heart: The 3 Wars of Vietnam

Author: Raynold A Gauvin
ISBN: 9781039100947
Format: Hardback
$71.13

A Soldier's Heart is a moving and expansive memoir by Vietnam Veteran Ray Gauvin. The story takes us from the French...  Read More >>

Vietnam War: The Story of an Infantryman in Vietnam War (A Blue-collar Kid's Journey to the Vietnam War and Back)

Vietnam War: The Story of an Infantryman in Vietnam...

Author: Sandra Koch
ISBN: 9781774857618
Format: Paperback
$49.03

The south vietnamese are turning against their own government. Protests are daily events. Even the military is questioning...  Read More >>

The Golden Brigade: The Untold Story of the 82nd Airborne in Vietnam and Beyond

The Golden Brigade: The Untold Story of the 82nd Airborne...

Author: Robert J Dvorchak
ISBN: 9781637584699
Format: Paperback
$105.60

""An epic tale of a brotherhood forged by war--masterfully told by a lifelong journalist, war correspondent, and...  Read More >>

South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage...

Author: Edward Wilson
ISBN: 9781529426137
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing'...  Read More >>

From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, Carnage And Cooperation In Europe, 1918 – 1993

From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht:...

Author: Martin Holmes
ISBN: 9781032198149
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of...  Read More >>

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