History - Modern - 20th Century

"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history."--Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow HorsesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The...

"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history."--Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow HorsesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The...

"Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam--bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups--should be required reading."--New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard...

The first book available in English by André Barbault, the great French master astrologer; The Value of Astrology offers incisive, captivating insights into the origins, classical tradition and modern uses of astrology. These include:  Rigorous understanding of mundane astrology.  An incisive outline...

From the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West that could be...

COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR - #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us--as if watching a movie--the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion,...

A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East The Ottoman Empire's collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Florida Book Awards Gold MedalNew York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the...

"Anyone who wants to learn more about sniping needs this book in their library." -- Infantry MagazineSimo Häyhä (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909After close on twenty years of warfare with the police, alternated by brief spells of imprisonment and daring escapes, the notorious Spanish brigand known as "El Vivillo" has recently been laid by the...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 128, November, 1908 Barmaid's Steeplechase. The Greatest Horse-Race on Record. The Promotion of Petroff. The Humours of a Rectorial Election. The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists. Climbing in the "Land of Fire." The Spider's Web. Dolphin=Hunting. A...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 129, December, 1908A ladys account of the fearful ordeal she underwent as a young girl on an estate in Natallocked up in a tiny church, whither she had gone to practise a Christmas voluntary, with a huge...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 130, January, 1909One of the most striking characteristics of the Westerner is the high regard in which he holds womankind. Even in the roughest mining camps a woman is absolutely safe, and is treated with a consideration...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909Another instalment of a fascinating budget of adventure narratives. This month we publish accounts of a fight to the death between a whale and a school of thresher sharks; a nest-robbers terrible battle with an...

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 132, March, 1909 A further instalment of a budget of breezy little narrativesexciting, humorous, and curioushailing from all parts of the world. This month's collection deals with a thrilling fight between a jaguar and a boa-constrictor, the...

"Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding." --Naomi Klein "This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers." --Hisham Matar "A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing...

The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.D., honors the six-million Jews and millions of other victims of the Nazis during...

The Newly Revised and Updated Edition In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes...

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars." Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images, The World War I Book explores the historical...

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans'--and nation's--unhealed traumas In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those...