History / 1945-1989

Best Selling / Page 15

icon Subscribe to feed

Browse

Best Selling

New Releases

 

Category

Delete 1945-1989

 

Price

All (577)

Free (0)

Below $5 (2)

Below $10 (83)

Below $15 (392)

Delete Price range

From :
To :
OK

 

Protection

All (577)

DRM Free (3)

DRM (574)

 

Language

English (577)

French (24)

German (4)

Spanish (0)

Italian (9)

More options

History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice

by Berber Bevernage

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something 'absent' or 'distant.' Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often...


How the Cold War Began

by Amy Knight

On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a Soviet espionage network in North America. His defection —...


Japan Since 1945: From Postwar to Post-Bubble

by Christopher Gerteis & Timothy S. George

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan’s significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays...


Substitute for Power: Wartime British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939-44

by Stefanidis

Organised thematically and geographically, this book explores British wartime propaganda directed at the Balkans from the outbreak of the Second World War to the German withdrawal. It addresses not only the...


A Shameful Act

by Taner Akçam

A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian

In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through...


The Whisperers

by Orlando Figes

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression

 

There have been many accounts of...


The War of the World

by Niall Ferguson

Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern...


Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government

by M. Stanton Evans & Herbert Romerstein

Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world’s superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public....


Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska & Rachel Duffett

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the era of total war. The analysis ranges from...


Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945

by Ralph Jessen & Lydia Langer

The volume focuses on processes of transformation in the retail business in several European countries mainly during the second half of the 20th Century. After World War II, structures, practices and the culture...


The Indian Army, 1939-47: Experience and Development

by Alan Jeffreys & Patrick Rose

This volume examines the Indian Army between the outbreak of war in 1939 and the partition of India in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth...


Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador

by Ellis Briggs

Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years he was ambassador to seven countries; the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru,...


Uses of Force and Wilsonian Foreign Policy

by Frederick S Calhoun

Frederick S. Calhoun Examines the policies Woodrow Wilson pursued during the seven military interventions he undertook between 1914 and 1919 to develop a specialized vocabulary describing how force is employed...


Indian Summer

by Alex Von Tunzelmann

An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties--set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400...


Sweet and Low

by Rich Cohen

Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and...


The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget

by Andrew Rice

From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today’s Africa

From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an...


The Age of Great Dreams

by David Farber

In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study,...


The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

by Frances Stonor Saunders

The astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome’s Campidoglio...


The Long Gray Line

by Rick Atkinson

The first trade paperback edition of the New York Times best-seller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Atkinson.

This is the story of the twenty-five-year adventure of...


A Woman's Crusade

by Mary Walton

Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement.  Upon...