Modern - 20th Century - General
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Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed
$18.95 Add to cartSenan Molony caused a worldwide media flurry in 2017 by revealing publicly that there was an uncontrolled coal bunker fire aboard Titanic. Experts held the fire would have significantly weakened a for
- Author: Molony, Senan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055496
- Language: English
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Our Smallest Ally
$14.99 Add to cartOur Smallest Ally by William Wigram is a compelling account of the vicissitudes and events that befell the Assyrian nation, Britain’s smallest ally, during World War One. Dr. Wigram, a long-standing m… [more below]
- Author: Wigram, William Ainger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0982712413
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Read moreThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
$26.99 Add to cartAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had … [more below]
- Author: Pedersen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190619120
- Language: English
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11:40: Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS Titanic
$50.00 Read moreA new in-depth study into those pivotal moments, both leading up to the striking of the iceberg, and across those crucial minutes afterwards, during which the fate of Titanic, and the 2,208 souls aboa
- Author: Payne, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803991763
- Language: English
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Death in Poland: The Fate of the Ethnic Germans in September 1939
$16.99 Add to cartThe expulsion and mass murder of the ethnic Germans in Poland before and at the start of World War Two was by no means restricted to the Bloody Sunday of Bromberg, a massacre that is all too often dow
- Author: Dwinger, Edwin Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1777543606
- Language: English
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Great Escape: Great Escape
$17.99 Add to cartExtravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what the… [more below]
- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 074326116X
- Language: English
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The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How Mi6 and the CIA Work Together
$35.00 Read moreGripping, deeply researched, and authoritative, the history of one of the closest intelligence and security relationships in the world
The Special Relationship between the United States and Britain i- Author: Smith, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763686
- Language: English
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
$25.99 Add to cartRobert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson “our greatest living modern historian.” As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where w
- Author: Conquest, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393320863
- Language: English
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Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the Cia’s Covert War in China
$34.95 Add to cartAgents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity–and fut
- Author: Delury, John P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501765973
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
$40.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743262131
- Language: English
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
$42.99 Add to cartThis is the history of temperance and prohibition as you’ve never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world l… [more below]
- Author: Schrad, Mark Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190841575
- Language: English
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus–one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and ha… [more below]
- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1541736125
- Language: English
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Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
$32.50 Add to cartA thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini–Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe–and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0062967258
- Language: English
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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
$37.00 Add to cartThe Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today–especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows ho… [more below]
- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 19 2007
- ISBN10: 052170314X
- Language: English
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Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing…richly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World Wa… [more below]
- Author: Paradis, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 150110473X
- Language: English
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug
$30.00 Add to cartThe hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1585742406
- Language: English
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
$27.00 Add to cartThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it
Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamen- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 014311672X
- Language: English
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Vintage women grayscale coloring books for adults – retro coloring books for adults: Vintage household old time coloring book
$9.99 Add to cartA remarkable collection of vintage inspired grayscale coloring pictures! If you are looking for a relaxing activity to clear the mind, this is the book for you!
This Vintage women grayscale coloring bo
- Author: Holmes, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 8064321239
- Language: English
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$21.00 Add to cartIn this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0812974476
- Language: English
