Storia / 1945-1989

The American YMCA and Russian Culture: The Preservation and Expansion of Orthodox Christianity, 1900-1940

di Matthew Lee Miller

In The American YMCA and Russian Culture, Matthew Lee Miller explores the impact of the philanthropic activities of the Young Men’s Christian Association on Russians during the late imperial and early Soviet...

The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

di Joshua Kurlantzick

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war-and the steep price he paid for failing

Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante...

The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race

di Richard Bak

The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero

The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators...

Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race

di Christopher Hale

The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land-and the sinister consequences

It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed...

1959: The Year Everything Changed

di Fred Kaplan

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America

While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal...

A Companion to Richard M. Nixon

di Melvin Small

This companion offers an overview of Richard M. Nixon’s life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the evolution and current state, of Nixon scholarship.

• Examines the central arguments and...

The Making of a World Trading Power: The European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy Round Negotiations (1963-67)

di Lucia Coppolaro

Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage. One of the first key arenas in which the new organisation began to make its...

Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain: Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation

di Stephen Heathorn

Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized and contested....

Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Memory of All That

di Richard Carr

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of...

Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics

di William Stevenson

William Stevenson may be best known for his friendship with and books about another William Stephenson, otherwise known as Intrepid, whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history. Originally...

Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics

di Claudia Koonz

From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler's Women's Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise...

The Nazi Organisation of Women

di Jill Stephenson

The Nazi's were implacably opposed to feminism and women's independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics....

Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History

di Ruth Milkman

As paid work becomes increasingly central in women's lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century...

1963: That Was The Year That Was

di Andrew Cook

1963 is a compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, national and international politics. This year alone saw: the Beatles' first number one; Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream'...

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism

di David Boyd Haycock

George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry...

The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

di Stephen Harding

The true story of US & German soldiers fighting side by side in the final days of WW II

The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power

di Michael Ezra

Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights...

The Poles in Britain, 1940-2000: From Betrayal to Assimilation

di Peter D. Stachura

Stachura provides an important, original analysis of the Polish community in the United Kingdom, adding up to a provocative interpretation of the Pole's position in British society. The chapters add to our understanding...

Medicine, the Market and Mass Media

di Virginia Berridge & Kelly Loughlin

This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of...

The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War

di Nicolas Lewkowicz

The book analyses the role of the German Question in the origins of the Cold War. The work evaluates the transformation which occurred in Germany and the post-war international order due to the inter-Allied...