28 Modern History MODERN HISTORY


The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.


- Albert Einstein


74214 TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER


by Christopher Hitchens In a polemical masterpiece, the author accuses the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor of the USA of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for international law have led to kidnapping, torture, and murder. Despite the fact that, in the author’s opinion, Henry Kissinger’s every action


demonstrates on the part of the former Secretary of State a callous indifference to human life and human rights, and a morally repulsive record, he has rigidly confined himself to those ‘identifiable crimes that can and should be placed on a proper bill of indictment’. These include the deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina, deliberate collusion in mass murder in Bangladesh, the suborning and planning of murder of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation - Chile - with which the US was not at war, master-minding a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus, the incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor, and personal involvement in a scheme to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington DC. Foreword by Ariel Dorfman. A shocking 247 pages with two appendices: A Fragrant Fragment and The Demetracopoulos Letter. £14.99 NOW £6.50


74170 1900s: Britain in


Pictures by Paul Richardson This important collection of hand- picked images from the Press Association’s unique archive illustrates a decade of life in Britain that saw, inter alia, the end of the Victorian era, the growth of the Labour and Women’s Suffrage


movements, the first powered flight and the disastrous 1908 London Olympics. Photographs have always been central to its work, and the PA’s unrivalled collection of over 15,000,000 pictures now forms a visual history of the nation. Most of these photographs have lain unseen since they were first used in the newspapers of their day. Here are families enjoying a rare outing to the cliffs in Folkestone, shiny-shoed, bowler-hatted men accompanying women with long sleeves and ankle- length skirts on Yarmouth sands, a jolly crowd revelling in the excitement of the Epsom Derby and ‘ladies’ hard at work on a farm. An irresistibly nostalgic 300 softback pages packed with archive b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £6


74171 1910s: Britain in


Pictures by Paul Richardson The archives of the Press Association yield a unique insight into Britain’s recent past. The decade represented by these images encompasses a time of profound change in British society.


The Great War, not the ‘War To End All Wars’ as was thought, but an apocalyptic occurrence nonetheless, dominates those years. But, even before that, there had been conflict between ordinary Britons and their masters. A new industrial unrest was seen on a large scale in the strikes at the beginning of the decade. Women were prepared to die in their struggle to gain the vote. In Ireland, an armed uprising took place. In Russia, the Royal Family - closely related to Britain’s own - were executed. Meanwhile, working people such as the Scottish lasses, who travelled to ports around Britain, were stoically carrying on with their task of cleaning and packing seasonal fish catches, and miners were racing their pet whippets. A fascinating 300 softback pages and as many archive b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £6


74208 SPIES AND COMMISSARS: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service


Recounts the extraordinary story of the men and women who fought for Bolshevik Russia and those in the West who tried to subvert their plans. It is the untold story of how many of the Western powers were determined to prevent Lenin and Trotsky from spreading their Communist ideals around the


world. When the Revolution as well as Russia’s premature exit from World War I pushed the Allies into withdrawing their embassies, the usual diplomatic routes to basic information had been cut off, and neither side knew much about the other. Into this void stepped a bizarre miscellany of people. These included the British diplomat Robert Bruce Lockhart who, with Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, engineered a plot to bring down Lenin. On the other hand, the American journalist, John Reed, and the famous writer of children’s adventure stories writer Arthur Ransome were both attracted to the new Communist regime. Meanwhile, in London and Berlin, Lenin’s commissars, Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Ioffe and Lev Kamenev, were aiming to influence foreign policy to the Bolsheviks’ advantage, as well as trying to secure the business deals that were vital for the regeneration of Russia’s collapsed economy. All these mavericks were soon joined by others: opportunistic


businessmen seeking a quick profit, intellectuals hoping to create a new world order, reporters looking for good copy, and even society ladies seeking excitement. 440 pages with maps, postscript and rare b/w archive photos.


£25 NOW £6.50


74185 ISRAEL: A History by Martin Gilbert


60th anniversary edition, fully revised, updated and enlarged by Sir Martin Gilbert, this is the most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published. Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage. During two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world,


prayed for a return to Zion. Until the 19th century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe. From these beginnings the book traces the events and personalities that would lead to the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948. From that point on, Israel’s history has been dominated by conflict - Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Two new chapters cover the last ten years and the continuing conflicts both internal and external, the persistent plans and negotiations and the ever-present avenues of hope. Rich in detail with a grand and heroic narrative. 786pp with maps and 32 pages of illus. £25 NOW £8


73429 THE CONSERVATIVES: A History by Robin Harris


Surprisingly, given the influence of the Conservative Party and its members, there has not yet been a single volume history as authoritative as this. In a lively style, Harris takes as his starting point the larger-than-life personalities who have led the party, analysing in forensic details the careers of Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Hague and Cameron and the political ideas that formed them. Superb pen portraits of some of the most powerful men - and one woman - in 200 years of British politics. 632pp with 32 pages of colour and b/w plates. £30 NOW £10


73826 THE THIRTIES: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner


The Thirties was a decade of extremes, in politics encompassing the farcical furore of the Abdication crisis and the murderous racism of Hitler’s Kristallnacht, and in entertainment ranging from Gielgud’s tragic Hamlet to Noel Coward’s frothy Private Lives. Amy Johnson piloted her plane from London to Moscow in less than a day, greyhound racing became the nation’s favourite sport, leading artists refused to exhibit at the frumpy Royal Academy and the Ashington ‘Pitmen’ painters mounted several successful exhibitions. In 1931 the government was in stalemate over financial cuts needed to restore confidence in the currency, with the Conservatives promoting tax cuts and Labour opposing benefit cuts for the almost 3 million unemployed. Public awareness finally led to the social welfare reforms of the post-war period. By the end of the decade only a third of the population were owner-occupiers. The Archbishop of York, William Temple, was a member of the Labour Party and Bishop Dick Sheppard’s Peace Pledge Union was a popular initiative, but the pro-Nazi Bishop Headlam of Gloucester undermined the Church’s attempts to achieve credibility as a populist political force. The author covers fashion, entertainment, sport, consumerism, women at work and attitudes in the face of the inevitability of war. 957pp, photos. £30 NOW £7.50


74147 1989: The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer


Subtitled ‘The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ the writer’s compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989 draws together vivid on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin. Here are leaders such as Vaclav Havel in Prague, Poland’s Lech Walesa, Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth in Budapest, and of course Mikhail Gorbachev. A brisk, first-person narrative. 254pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


71426 PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE: One Man’s Journey from Repression to Freedom by Charles Yeats


The author was brought up in Basutoland at a time when it was part of Britain’s Empire and he spent a term at Harrow School. He writes trenchantly of his concern that maybe we, in the West, have not fully realized the reality of a post-9/11 world, and of our social, environmental and moral responsibilities. As a conscientious objector, he endured several periods of solitary confinement at the infamous Detention Barracks. 210pp, illus and map. £12.99 NOW £1.50


72849 VINTAGE FASHION: Classic 20th Century Styles and Designs by Ottilie Godfrey


Vintage clothes are big business and this gallery of 20th century fashion illustrates how to get the authentic look. A couture landmark was Chanel’s Little Black Dress of 1926, but when stocks and shares crashed on Wall Street, hemlines followed suit, and the Thirties featured more flowing lines. The swinging sixties would change all that, with London leading the world in fashion with names like Mary Quant, Jean Muir and Biba, and seventies Retro picked up themes from everywhere, then Madonna and Princess Diana were not afraid to go their own way. 128pp, softback, colour and archive images.


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72776 PORTRAIT OF AN ERA: An Illustrated History of Britain 1900-1945


by Juliet Gardiner et al A weighty publication from Reader’s Digest brimming over with some 650 b/w photos from the world famous Getty archive. We begin with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and a rather splendid formal portrait of the next queen,


Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, with her compliment of six pageboys on the day of her husband’s coronation in 1902. The interwar period brought the Jazz Age when “flappers” Charlestoned the night away, and back in the real world we had the General Strike, the Depression, the abdication of Edward VIII and the rumblings of another war. The ensuing destruction of WWII and ultimate victory all came at a terrible cost, then the General Election of 1945 saw war-winning Churchill become an election loser, and the beginnings of the welfare state and NHS. Quality photos and expert analysis. 559pp, 9½” × 11½”. £25 NOW £10


72022 MARCHING TO THE FAULT LINE


by Francis Beckett and David Hencke Subtitled ‘The Miners’ Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain’ chapter headings include ‘The Shadow of 1926’, ‘Enter Thatcher, Stage Right and Scargill, Stage Left’, ‘The Great Strike’, ‘The Battle of Orgreave’, ‘Pit Managers’, ‘Moscow Gold and A Fatal Libyan Kiss’, ‘Eleventh-Hour Talks’ and ‘The Post-Strike World: Lost Money, Lost Influence, Lost Reputations’. Here is the full inside story of the strike, from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to back room negotiations and life on the picket line. Reveals a series of ‘dirty tricks’. 303pp, paperback, shocking photos. £8.99 NOW £3.50


72366 THE EXPO FILES by Stieg Larsson Along with the creation of Salander and the Millennium Trilogy, professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and Editor-in-Chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. The articles are on right-wing extremism, racism, violence against women and women’s rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Despite death threats and financial difficulties, Larsson never ceased to fight for his firmly held principles. 186pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £2.50


72538 ORDER! ORDER! A Parliamentary Miscellany by Robert Rogers


Here are all the famous clashes, rivalries and great events of parliamentary history, such as the fire in 1834 that destroyed the medieval buildings, the dramatic attempts to blow up and bomb Parliament and the Prime Minister who was assassinated while he walked along its corridors. No, we did not know that one either! As entertaining as it is informative, and written with the intimate knowledge of an insider, this is altogether a fascinating collection. 243 pages, b/w illus. £14.99 NOW £3


72634 SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE: Writings on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama


Professor Simon Schama CBE is an Edward Gibbon for our times. His review of Roy Jenkins’s biography of Churchill gives Schama the opportunity to look at the whole Churchill myth, both the adulation and the sly deflation. His article on Ruskin’s hatred of Dutch painting is a superb aesthetic meditation, and Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Rampling, Isaiah Berlin all get the Schama treatment. Two articles on the significance of 9/11, a few days and a year afterwards, are both equally thought-provoking. Food is another passion, and memories of his mother’s Jewish kitchen are intensely evocative. 405pp, photos. £20 NOW £6


71689 AMERICAN FUTURE: A History by Simon Schama


Cumulatively the chapters build into a history of American exceptionalism - the ‘American difference’ that means so much to its people but which has led it into calamities as well as triumphs. Historically the country has managed to renew and rebuild itself when overwhelmed by financial disaster such as in 1932 and 1976. 2008 is another disaster and its future hangs in the balance. 392pp, colour and b/w photos. £20 NOW £4


71826 LISTENING TO BRITAIN


edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang Subtitled ‘Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour May to September 1940' this is a period that saw the evacuation from Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the opening stages of the Blitz. The Ministry of Information compiled daily reports on the morale of the nation. From the Mass-Observation Social Survey Organisation through a network of contacts including chief constables, postal censors, doctors, parsons, publicans and trade unionists, the reports about German spies dressed as ‘hairy-handed nuns’ and concerns about anti-Semitism in the heavily-bombed East End. 492pp. £18.99 NOW £3


73010 THE NEXT 100 YEARS: A Forecast for


the 21st Century by George Friedman The author insists that - although he will get many details wrong - his goal is to identify the major tendencies, geopolitical, technological, demographic, cultural and military, in their broadest sense, and to define the major events that might take place. So, if you think that predictions of Mexico making a bid for global supremacy, or Poland becoming America’s closest ally, or World War III taking place in space are slightly farfetched, then read these forecasts with an open mind. 350 paperback pages illus and maps. £8.99 NOW £3.50


73053 LONDON CALLING: A Countercultural


History of London Since 1945 by Barry Miles Soho and Fitzrovia are still a magnet for writers and artists eager for altered states and social freedoms. This superbly entertaining account of London’s Bohemia in its postwar heyday, the people, pubs and parties, starts with the romantic figure of Tambimuttu, the editor of Poetry London who gave the name Fitzrovia to the area round Fitzroy Square. The author remembers Lucian Freud and Henry Moore as his regular illustrators. In the 50s the scene changed with the advent of the Angry Young Men and the Beat generation, and in the 60s the Beatles and their entourage adopted the short-lived Ad- Lib club. 468pp, paperback, notes, photos, some in colour.


£12.99 NOW £3.50 73149 THE NEW FEW: Or A Very British


Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount Until the collapse of the Soviet Union the word “oligarch” appeared to have had its day, consigned to history with the last of the 18th century magnates or the doges of Venice. Then came those nimble-minded new Russian business types who leapt into the power vacuum of the collapsed Soviet Union, scooped out all that lovely gas, oil and minerals and got out quickly, fanning out across the world, with many now ensconced in bullet-proof luxury in London. But, says Mount, while this has been happening, we have failed completely to notice the rise of our own home-grown oligarchs. The raft of figures that demonstrate the increasing polarisation of wealth in Britain is too lengthy to reproduce here, save this one: the ratio of total reward of FTSE 100 company CEOs to the average UK employee rose from 45 in 1998 to 120 in 2010, and when you consider that our total earnings rose hugely over that period, it is not hard to see where the wealth is ending up and with “austerity Britain” likely to be with us for a few years yet, we should be very worried indeed say Mount. An elegant and quite devastating account of inequality, greed and self-serving. Prepare to shocked. 305pp paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


MUSIC AND DANCE


Dancing is the poetry of the foot. - John Dryden


74172 ANYONE WHO HAD A


HEART: My Life and Music by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield


Growing up in Forest Hills, New York during the 1930s and 1940s, Burt Bacharach fell in love with music after sneaking into a Manhattan jazz club to see the legendary Dizzie Gillespie. After a stint in the army during the Korean War, he toured the world with


Marlene Dietrich, wrote an endless string of hits, scored numerous Hollywood films, married the glamorous movie star Angie Dickinson and composed the music for the huge Broadway hit Promises, Promises. While he soared professionally, Burt Bacharach’s private life was dominated by the never ending search for love, and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost. His first three marriages ended in divorce. His long-running partnership with the late Hal David suffered a bitter split that lasted 17 years. His music has touched millions of devoted listeners and now he steps out from behind the music to express his deepest feelings behind his unforgettable songs in his memoir offering a candid backstage look at show business and his personal struggles including the devastating fate of his confused daughter. Fabulously detailed and with chunks of reminiscences from his former wives like Carole Bayer Sager on life along Rodeo Drive and with Neil Diamond, Elizabeth Taylor among the names she drops, Phil Ramone on recordings and Broadway, and Mike Myers on the Austin Powers movie. 292pp, photos, UK first edition. £20 NOW £6


74195 MOZART: The Golden Years 1781-1791


125th Anniversary Edition by H. C. Robbins Landon The last decade of Mozart’s short but amazingly prolific career counts as one of the most remarkable periods - truly golden years - in the entire history of Western music. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and


engravings, this superb volume provides a vivid account of the composer’s life in the European music capital, Vienna, during that time. This creative yet turbulent decade witnessed a crescendo of activity. Mozart married Constanze Weber and, in the ensuing period, produced an astonishing wealth of new music, rich in quality as well as quantity. A host of immortal works belong to this era, among them the great trilogy of symphonies - numbers 39 to 41- operatic masterpieces such as The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosí Fan Tutte, and The Magic Flute, and the Clarinet Concerto of 1791. Through a close examination of Mozart’s public successes and failures, his relationship with his father Leopold, his devotion to his wife, his Masonic associations and his friendship with Joseph Haydn, the author provides an intimate and eminently readable portrait of an extraordinary musical genius. 272 pages with select bibliography of publications, 215 illustrations, 32 in colour, 27 musical examples. £9.95 NOW £5


74281 BEHIND THE SHADES: The 20th


Anniversary Edition by Clinton Heylin First published in 1991, Behind the Shades was far and away the most comprehensive biography of Bob Dylan


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