History / 1945-1989

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

by Modris , Professor of History Eksteins

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere...

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

by Joan Reardon

This dishy and delightful, never-before-published correspondence between America's queen of food, Julia Child, and her confidante and mentor Avis DeVoto, shows not only the blossoming of a lifelong friendship,...

Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files: Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat

by Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre’s two bestselling accounts of World War II espionage are now available together exclusively as an ebook with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller, Double Cross. A New York Times Notable...

Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas

by David Wise

Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels...

Thunderstruck

by Erik Larson

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi,...

The Six Day War 1967: Sinai

by Simon Dunstan & Peter Dennis

In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June,...

Iwo Jima 1945: The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

by Derrick Wright & Jim Laurier

One of the decisive battles of World War II (1939-1945) in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as "The most savage and most costly...

The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French miracle halts the Germans

by Ian Sumner

Osprey's study of the Battle of the Marne, which was one of the decisive encounters of World War I (1914-1918), saving France from a catastrophic defeat that would almost certainly have knocked her out of the...

Vietnam Firebases 1965-73: American and Australian Forces

by Randy Foster & Peter Dennis

Impressive in terms of scale and structure, the Fire Support Base became a dominant element in ground maneuver during the Vietnam War. Initially a mobile base, it soon evolved into a semi-permanent and more...

German V-Weapon Sites 1943-45

by Steven Zaloga & Hugh Johnson

Designed to change the course of the war, the V-weapons required ambitious plans to defend their expensive and complicated launch sites. Steven J Zaloga describes the configuration and planned deployment of...

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War

by Neil Hanson

The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. An unassuming English chaplain...

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

by Piers Brendon

The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately,...

Albert Kesselring

by Pier Battistelli & Adam Hook

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in...

P-47 Thunderbolt Units of the Twelfth Air Force

by Jonathan Bernstein & Chris Davey

The P-47 Thunderbolt, originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor, became the principle US fighter-bomber of World War 2. First adapted to the ground attack role by units of the Twelfth Air Force in early...

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...

Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora

by Marika Sherwood

Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter...

History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750-2000

by Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich & FRANS LUNDGREN

This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media - including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography,...

Twentieth-Century Spies

by Neil Root

The deadly world of high-level espionage is on full display in this heart-pumping exposé on the world's most glamorous and dangerous jobs

A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth...

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

by Gregg Olsen

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard....

The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

by Hardy Green

Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam—each is the signature product...