History - 20th To 21st Century from Viceroy Books

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2001. New book, 192 page. From the fall of troy to intestellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, this book is a collection of 95 of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history. The authors have compiled a fascinating array of encrypted communications from a… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.: Greenwood Pub Group, 1979. Used book, 192 pages. Owners name written on front and back end pages. In Very good condition inside and out. The lectures which form the substance of this volume were delivered at Columbia University, New York, inder the auspices of the Julian Beer Foundation, in January 1925. This third edition was compiled… Read more about this item

Pier 9, 2010. New book, 362 pages. Documents that shaped Australia is a richly varied anthology of 100 written and spoken snapshots of the Australian nation across space and time. John Thompson's diverse selection - illustrated with facsimile documents, portraits and maps and featuring detailed contextual introductions - spans over 400 years of recorded Australian history, drawing on letters and… Read more about this item

The Stationary Office, 1999. New book, 248 pages. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not been previously available in popular form. This is the report of the government inquiry into the loss of the SS "Titanic", which was initiated immediately after the disaster. Lord Mersey, as Wreck Commissioner, headed the formal investigation, assisted by five assessors. Their findings,… Read more about this item

The Stationary Office, 1999. New book, 248 pages. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not been previously available in popular form. This is the report of the government inquiry into the loss of the SS "Titanic", which was initiated immediately after the disaster. Lord Mersey, as Wreck Commissioner, headed the formal investigation, assisted by five assessors. Their findings,… Read more about this item

Tim Coates, 2003. New book, 190 pages. The Profumo Affair remains the biggest scandal ever to hit British politics. At the height of the Cold War the Minister of War was found to be having an affair with a call girl who has associations with a Russian Naval Officer. Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, invited Lord Denning to examine… Read more about this item

Tim Coates, 2003. New book, 190 pages. The Profumo Affair remains the biggest scandal ever to hit British politics. At the height of the Cold War the Minister of War was found to be having an affair with a call girl who has associations with a Russian Naval Officer. Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, invited Lord Denning to examine… Read more about this item

The Stationary Office, 2001. New book, 382 pages. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the subsequent murder of his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, two days later, stunned the world. On November 29, 1963, President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding these tragic events. This book is a collection of… Read more about this item

The Stationary Office, 2001. New book, 382 pages. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the subsequent murder of his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, two days later, stunned the world. On November 29, 1963, President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding these tragic events. This book is a collection of… Read more about this item

The Stationary Office, 2001. New book, 382 pages. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the subsequent murder of his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, two days later, stunned the world. On November 29, 1963, President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding these tragic events. This book is a collection of… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008. New book, 296 pages. This book tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life. Mawson had been a key member of Shackleton's 1907-09 Nimrod expedition. In 1911 hos own Australasian Antarctic Expedition set off for the great white south, pitching camp on the slopes… Read more about this item

Free Press, 2005. New book, 876 pages. Ask many Westerners, and not a few Russians, and they are likely to recall Khrushchev as a crude, ill-educated clown who banged his shoe at the United Nations. But the short, thick-set man with small, piercing eyes, protruding ears, and apparently unquenchable energy wasn't a Soviet joke even though he figures in so… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Harper Uk, 2007. New book, 424 pages. Max Arthur's compilation of memories from the turn of the century recaptures the day-to-day lives of people living through a fascinating period of transformation and landmark events.This book assembles hundreds of excerpts from private and public archives of Britain. Miners, millworkers, postmen, actresses, soldiers, bricklayers, shipbuilders, farm hands, seamstresses, footballers, and… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: MacMillan, 2004. New book, 186 pages. Roosevelts presidency was one of the most eventful in US history. He took office in the midst of economic crisis: the stock market had crashed, the banking system had collapsed and millions of Americans were unemployed. Galvanising the nation with his 1933 inaugural address, Roosevelt demonstrated an optimism and resolve that… Read more about this item

Scarborough, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 2006. New book, 330 pages. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetuated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend - monsters and master criminals equal to the enormity of… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2004. New book, 211 pages. Saddam Hussein's regime has fallen, but it is still too easy to overllok the most vital aspect of Iraq's reconstruction: the Iraqi people themselves. In this book, the author tells the story of a country in flux, from memories of its distant past to the painfull realities… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007. New book, 716 pages. During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Viking, 2005. New book, 412 pages. This book follows the story of the city that was built on the dreams of the American gold rush, and was destroyed in less than a minute. Just before dawn on 18 April 1906 a massive earthquake roared through the city of San Francisco, tearing through the main thouroughfare of… Read more about this item

Arrow Books, 2006. New book, 621 pages. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline?… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2001. New book, 517 pages. Generally recognised as one of Britain's most popular and successful diplomats, Sir Nocholas (Nicko) Henderson was Ambassador to Poland 1962-72, Germany 1972-75, France 1975-79, and the United States 1979-82. His diaries, whether covering subjects as dissimilar as the sleeping arrangements in Windsor Castle, the developing relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald… Read more about this item