Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 books

16265 books were found.

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture,...

Author: Dr Bodie A. Ashton (Universität Erfurt, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350331563
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness...  Read More >>

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Author: John Link
ISBN: 9781009490269
Format: Paperback
$72.42

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century,...  Read More >>

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture,...

Author: Dr Bodie A. Ashton (Universität Erfurt, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350331570
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness...  Read More >>

Clearing Vietnam: Anatomy of a U.S. Army Land Clearing Team

Clearing Vietnam: Anatomy of a U.S. Army Land Clearing...

Author: Terry T Brown
ISBN: 9781631322259
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Clearing Vietnam: Anatomy of a U.S. Army Land Clearing Team, captures the conditions and encounters of a young combat...  Read More >>

A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War

A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective...

Author: Sandrine Kott ,  Arby Gharibian
ISBN: 9780231210157
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Diving into the archives of international organizations and associations, Sandrine Kott provides a new account of...  Read More >>

Battle of Kontum, 1972

Battle of Kontum, 1972

Author: Matt Jackson
ISBN: 9781960249135
Format: Paperback
$79.17

"...Ben Het has tanks in the wire! ""Hawk Claw is engaging,"" the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile...  Read More >>

A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War

A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective...

Author: Sandrine Kott ,  Arby Gharibian
ISBN: 9780231210140
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Diving into the archives of international organizations and associations, Sandrine Kott provides a new account of...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Images: A New History of Photographic Cultures in Egypt

Decolonizing Images: A New History of Photographic Cultures...

Author: Ronnie Close
ISBN: 9781526165954
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt's local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the...  Read More >>

The Innocents: A Photographic Essay of Vietnamese Children During the Vietnam War

The Innocents: A Photographic Essay of Vietnamese Children...

Author: Bedford Lee Chandler
ISBN: 9781916770775
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The poignant images in this book reveal the anguish, terror, bewilderment, and happiness of children born into a...  Read More >>

Dien Bien Phu: Un Coin d'Enfer

Dien Bien Phu: Un Coin d'Enfer

Author: Bernard Fall ,  Michel Carriere
ISBN: 9782251455341
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Le samedi 8 mai 1954, l'avion de commandement capte le tout dernier message expedie par les Francais de Dien Bien...  Read More >>

Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike: before, during and after

Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike:...

Author: Richard Williams ,  Amanda Powell
ISBN: 9781800995031
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A unique perspective on the 1984 85 UK Miners' Strike from a husband-and-wife team who reported on it in person...  Read More >>

Second Chance at First Love: A Heartwarming Second Chance Romance

Second Chance at First Love: A Heartwarming Second Chance...

Author: Marion Kummerow
ISBN: 9783948865689
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Can love exist when all hope is lost? A broken war hero He was ready to give his life for his country. But...  Read More >>

Taipan Snake Pit

Taipan Snake Pit

Author: Michael D Guard
ISBN: 9798869039521
Format: Paperback
$44.85

"TAIPAN SNAKE PIT discloses the tribulations of the Vietnam helicopter war, and provides deeply moving insight into...  Read More >>

Gardens in the Midst of War: Saigon 1973 - 1975

Gardens in the Midst of War: Saigon 1973 - 1975

Author: Karen Kaiser
ISBN: 9798988581130
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In the spring of 1973, a young American couple, Karen and Steve, heads to Saigon, Republic of [South] Vietnam where...  Read More >>

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution...

Author: Tania Branigan
ISBN: 9781783352661
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years...  Read More >>

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism...

Author: Paul Preston
ISBN: 9780008522155
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of...  Read More >>

Grenada Gambit: Navigating Nuclear Relations in the Cold War

Grenada Gambit: Navigating Nuclear Relations in the...

Author: Timothy Anglea
ISBN: 9798869125309
Format: Paperback
$79.17

"Grenada Gambit: Navigating Nuclear Relations in the Cold War Explore the gripping narrative of ""Grenada Gambit,""...  Read More >>

Turning Points: The Role of the State Department in Vietnam (1945-75)

Turning Points: The Role of the State Department in...

Author: Ambassador Thomas J Corcoran ,  Ret )
ISBN: 9798874683542
Format: Audio
$190.05

Details how the US State Department attempted, and failed, to save South Vietnam from North Vietnamese aggression...  Read More >>

Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human...

Author: Michael J. Cangemi
ISBN: 9780817361266
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies...  Read More >>

The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal...

Author: Xinran Xue
ISBN: 9781399406680
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Whatever Cause We Have: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in the Vietnam War

Whatever Cause We Have: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer...

Author: Dan Moore
ISBN: 9781476691688
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Dan Moore joined the Marines to serve in Vietnam and contribute to the anticipated American victory over communism....  Read More >>

The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan

The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against...

Author: Christopher Perkins
ISBN: 9789819970421
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of...  Read More >>

Crisis in the Caribbean

Crisis in the Caribbean

Author: Fitzroy Ambursley ,  Robin Cohen
ISBN: 9781032703442
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central...  Read More >>

Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human...

Author: Michael J. Cangemi
ISBN: 9780817321789
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies...  Read More >>

North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and...

Author: Andre Schmid
ISBN: 9780520392847
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a...  Read More >>

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