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

The volume addresses important challenges to historical science in the 21st century. History plays a central role...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization...  Read More >>

My father William Christian Dethlefsen served in the Army air Corp during WWII in North Africa and Italy and my...  Read More >>

Wie präsentieren sich die konkurrierenden Parteien in den Wahlkämpfen der wechselvollen Jahrzehnte zwischen 1949...  Read More >>

Über das subversive Potential agierender Körper  Read More >>

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure...  Read More >>

The extraordinary story of an unconventional marriage. A mesmerizing meditation on love and loss Alison Light met...  Read More >>

Covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry,...  Read More >>

Nazi concentration camps were built close to local populations all across Europe. These nearby communities were...  Read More >>

War is hell is an understatement! Kenny knew something was wrong as his best friend tripped a wire. For a couple...  Read More >>

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Building on his previous research into how apartheid templates of ethnic separatism, and its popular mobilisations,...  Read More >>

1988-1996: A circumnavigation of the Mediterranean in an old Bentley; a ride west from Moscow on a Russian version...  Read More >>

A thorough account of the Catholic Left and its resistance to the Vietnam war.  Read More >>

Die Forderung sibirischen Erdgases und der Pipelinebau nach Europa waren das letzte industrielle Mammutprojekt der...  Read More >>

Während Religionsgemeinschaften häufig zugeschrieben wird, inhärent demokratieaffin oder demokratiefeindlich zu...  Read More >>

This book is an unvarnished look at the life of a helicopter pilot and his year in Vietnam. He arrived at the beginning...  Read More >>

This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on...  Read More >>

Das 1991 als deutsch-französisch-polnisches Gesprächsforum ins Leben gerufene Weimarer Dreieck bezieht sich auch...  Read More >>

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and...  Read More >>

A history of the Brunei Rebellion, which was the trigger for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation of the 1960s....  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever access to his...  Read More >>

Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay...  Read More >>

Blue Monday delves into the unforgettable day in Canadian baseball history that saw the LA Dodgers go on to the...  Read More >>

"Another 22 Helicopter Rescue missions from the Vietnam War as told by the very youthful aircrews who flew those...  Read More >>