20Th Century category: 9982 books
The American West
A New Interpretive History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An...
by Whittaker Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
#1 New York Times bestseller for 13 consecutive weeks!
"As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire." - PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
"One of the dozen or so indispensable books of the century..." - GEORGE...
by Anthony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence...
Three Armies on the Somme
The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World...
Great Catastrophe
Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide...
Imagining Tombstone
The Town Too Tough to Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
When prospector “Ed” Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he’d find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West—a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomtown, in...
The Bomb
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery.
In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard...
Hubris
The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation,...
The End of Tsarist Russia
The March to World War I and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
**An Economist Best Book of the Year
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
Winner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History)
One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Commemorating the October 2017 centenary of the Russian Revolution, an anthology of wide-ranging voices and scholarship throwing fresh light on this momentous historical event.
This October the world commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution, one of the crucial moments of the twentieth...
The Value of Labor
The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
At the heart of today’s fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Martha Lampland explains in this fascinating look...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
Comprehensive Coverage of the Twentieth Century’s First Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
You're no idiot, of course. You know that World War I was the Great War, and you're familiar with its images; muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no-man's land of craters and barbed wire.
But when it comes to understanding its causes, why it dragged on for four years, and how it set the stage...
The Deep Dark
Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America’s richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine. Mining there, as everywhere, was not an easy life, but regardless of the risk, there was something about being underground, the lure of hitting a deep vein of silver. The promise of good money and the...
by Philip L. Fradkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention....