20Th Century category: 9982 books
Collision of Empires
The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Although the myriad of alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century proved to be one of the primary triggers for the outbreak of the First World War, much of the actual fighting between these three nations has been largely...
JFK Assassination
50 Years On in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
JFK Assassination 50 Years on in 60 Minutes
Contents Introduction The JFK Assassination: The Timeline The Life and Presidency of John F. Kennedy : The Childhood of a Legend, The Rise to Power, The Presidency The Accepted Version of Events : Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald (A case for the...
Citizen Soldier
A Life of Harry S. Truman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
When Harry S. Truman left the White House in 1953, his reputation was in ruins. Tarred by corruption scandals and his controversial decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, he ended his second term with an abysmal approval rating, his presidency widely considered a failure. But this dim view of Truman...
Massacre in Malaya
Exposing Britain's My Lai
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first book to draw upon new files from the British National Archives, it also features interviews with veterans from both sides of the conflict to expose the truth behind the Batang Kali massacreThe Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) was the longest war fought by British and Commonwealth forces in...
A Dance with the Dragon
The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking...
by Peter J. Ling
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public’s largely positive appraisal of this...
by Prof. Edward J Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Mustafa Kemal was one of the 20th century's greatest combat commanders. Born in Salonika to a middle–class family, this book follows the life of a great commander who served in the Italo–Turkish War of 1911–12 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 before taking command of the 19th Division based in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century.
Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the...
Munich 1919
Diary of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned out to be a decisive turning point in the fate...
We Called Each Other Comrade
Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Featuring a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography of all titles published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, this updated record chronicles the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United States history. These pioneers of the...
France since the 1970s
History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Until the mid-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced...
Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this...
by Richard S. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The 1980s and early 1990s were remarkable for the triumph of conservatism in the United States and its closest allies. The victories of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the United States were complemented by the electoral successes of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Brian...
The Good Pope
The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church--The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary—a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church’s past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors seem like voices of another age.”
—Time magazine
“The story of Good Pope John is...