20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world’s best-loved broadcasters, and a foreigner who helped Americans better...
by Yaffa Eliach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original...
L'affaire Dreyfus et la conspiration de l'État
Lutter pour la vérité et la justice
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’affaire Dreyfus en moins d’une heure !Fait marquant de l’histoire de France, l’affaire Dreyfus provoque de vifs débats en cette fin de XIXe siècle. La condamnation injuste du tristement célèbre Alfred Dreyfus sonne comme un signal d’alerte...
El caso Dreyfus
La conspiración del Estado francés y la lucha por la verdad y la justicia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el caso Dreyfus, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Entender el marco histórico en el que se produce el caso Dreyfus, con una Francia recién derrotada contra...
Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words...
I Was Vermeer
The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim...
by Richard Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award
This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).
Widely heralded as...
The Great Influenza
The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
The definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. "Monumental"-Chicago Tribune.
At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed...
Executing the Rosenbergs
Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper...
The Guns of August
The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
The Cold War
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet...
Fire in a Canebrake
The Last Mass Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On that July evening in 1946, the leader counted aloud and the mob of white men fired. Seconds later, the leader counted again, "One, two, three," and the mob fired once more. After the third and final volley of gunshots, the white men got into their cars and drove off, leaving the bullet-ridden bodies...
Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.
Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great.
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story...