History / 1945-1989

The Badlands: More Stories from Midnight in Peking (A Penguin Special)

by Paul French

More tales of intrigue in Old Peking from bestselling author Paul French

Through portraits of eight residents of Peking's infamous Badlands district, Paul French brings the area and 1930s Peking vividly to life....

The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from TheWar of the World (Penguin Tracks)

by Niall Ferguson

Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional...

The Roaring 20's and the Wall Street Crash: Good Times, Deep Pockets and Poverty

by Nick Shepley

The Wall Street Crash was an epic failure of the financial system at the start of the 20th Century, but it alone did not cause the Great Depression. This edition of Explaining Modern History looks at the deeper...