History / 1945-1989

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970

by David Browne

“One of the most entertaining and informative books of the year…to be enjoyed not only by rock fans, but by anyone interested in popular culture and social change.”--NPR.org

History at War: The Campaigns of an Historian

by Noble Frankland

History at War is a unique book. It throws light on important unexplored aspects of the pursuit of historical truth. It tells how, alone among historians, Noble Frankland fought in the bomber offensive during...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

by Rosemarie Morgan

Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggests new directions in Hardy studies. While several collections have surveyed...

From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation: Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

by Lisa K. Perdigao

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Perdigao considers works by writers from William Faulkner...

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

by Lorraine Sim

Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that dominated the cultural thought of her time, Sim draws on the major novels and on a number of shorter...

Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

by Lucy Le-Guilcher & Phyllis B. Lassner

From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry, including Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. In the first collection devoted...

The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Shaping a Late Style

by Bethan Jones

Taking D. H. Lawrence's late poetry as her starting point, Bethan Jones adopts a broadly intertextual approach to Lawrence's poetry that places it in the context of his prose works and his reading in mythology,...

Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions

by Edward J. Ahearn

Edward J. Ahearn shows that together, works from literature and the social sciences can illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Whether viewing Charles Baudelaire alongside Emile...

Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction

by Andrea Adolph

Examining female characters in Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk, Andrea Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food are used to locate women's embodiment within...

English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950

by Petra Rau

This is the first systematic analysis of the relationship between representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature, the construction of English identity and the negotiation of modernity. Major...

Preparing for Blockade 1885-1914: Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare

by Stephen Cobb

It is argued in this book that, from the 1880s there was a widely shared, but largely unwritten, strategic acceptance in British naval thinking that in a war with a major power the response would be to attack...

From East of Suez to the Eastern Atlantic: British Naval Policy 1964-70

by Edward Hampshire

The book explores British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-70), analysing how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with...

LRRP Team Leader: A Memoir of Vietnam

by John Burford

Vietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in precision...

Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

by Wyatt Bonikowski

Bonikowski examines how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed in novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf. Situating his study with respect...

SE 5/5a Aces of World War I

by Norman Franks & Harry Dempsey

The SE 5/5a British single-seat aircraft was one of the major fighting scouts of the last 18 months of the war in France during World War I and was a true workhorse of the Royal Flying Corps, handling fighter-versus-fighter...

The State and Business in the Major Powers: An Economic History 1815-1939

by Robert Millward

In the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World.

This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business...

Royal Navy Aces of World War 2

by Andrew Thomas & Chris Davey

The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) served with distinction in every theater of war throughout World War II. From its poorly equipped beginnings - it started the war with few suitable, modern, carrier-born fighters - to...

Reluctant Warrior

by Michael Hodgins

"ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end."...

Churchill's Channel War: 1939-45

by Robert Jackson

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the launch of Operation Overlord, the Channel saw continuous action during World War II, and was the world’s most fought-over waterway. In this fascinating account, Robert Jackson...

Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam

by Joseph T. Ward

The letters Joseph War, one of the elite Marine Scout Snipers, wrote home reveal a side of the Vietnam war seldom seen. Whether under nigthly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred...