Derek H. Aldcroft 
British Railways in Transition [PDF ebook] 

Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that – at least in the case of Athens – has received far less attention. Along with the problem …

This text surveys all aspects of the Church”s structure, role and relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of conve …

The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. David W …

Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into …

Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240, 000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war”s end, less than 20, 000 remaine …

SOE and The Resistance describes the extraordinary contribution to the allied war effort made by the Special Operations Executive, from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war. Within a broadly c …

The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The author ana …

This book provides a ‘birds eye’ view of social change in France during the ‘long seventeenth century’ from 1589-1715. One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the fi …

The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes th …

The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and co …