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Books
Black, J 2002,
The World in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, London
Burleigh, M 2001,
The Third Reich: A New History, Pan Macmillan, London
Burleigh, M 2009,
Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, Harper Perennial, New York
Evans, R 2003,
The Coming of the Third Reich, Penguin, London
Evans, R 2005,
The Third Reich in Power, Penguin London
Fairclough, A 2001,
Better Days are Coming: Blacks and Equality 1890–2000, Penguin, New York
Fitzpatrick, S 2000,
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Fiehn, T et al. 1998,
The USA Between the Wars 1919–1941, John Murray, London
Gaddis, JL 2005,
The Cold War, Penguin, London
Gilbert, M 1997,
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One 1900–1933, Harper Collins, London
Gilbert, M 1998,
Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century 1933–1951, Harper Collins, London
Gilbert, M 1999,
Challenge to Civilisation: A History of the Twentieth Century 1952–1999, Harper Collins, London
Hobsbawn, E 1994,
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914–1991, Abacus, London
Hodgson, G (ed) 1995,
The People’s Century: From the Dawn of the New Century to the Start of the Cold War, BBC Books, London
Hodgson, G (ed) 1996,
The People’s Century: From the Start of the Nuclear Age to the End of the Century, BBC Books, London
Huffmann, J 2010,
Modern Japan, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Kershaw, I 2015,
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949, Penguin, London
Kershaw, I 2019,
Rollercoaster: Europe 1950–2017, Penguin, London
Maltby, R 1988,
Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century, Grange Books, London
Montefiore, S 2004,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tzar, Phoenix Books, London
Reynolds, D 2000,
One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945, Penguin, London
Scott, J 1989,
The World Since 1914, Heinemann History, Oxford
Sitkoff, H 2008,
The Struggle for Black Equality, 1890–2000, Hill and Wang, New York
Smith, C 2016, (9th edn)
Palestine and the Arab–Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents, 9th edn, Bedford/St Martins, New York
Todd, A 2001,
The Modern World, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Websites
The Avalon Project
The Cold War Museum
Cold War
History.com, Civil Rights Movement (USA)
The Great Depression in USA
German Propaganda Archive
History of Apartheid
History of the Cold War
The Holocaust Memorial Museum
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
National Humanities Centre, History in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s
World History Archives
Lectures and podcasts
NPR Civil Rights Series
Historical Association, The Voice for History
History Extra,
Voices of the Cold War
Tony Judt,
A history of Europe since 1945
Stitcher’s
The History of the Cold War Podcast
University of Oxford, Middle East Centre
When Diplomacy Fails
Films and documentaries
All Quiet on the Western Front – Lewis Milestone, 1930, USA (film)
Cabaret – Bob Fosse, 1972, USA (film)
Cold War – Jeremy Issacs, 1998, USA (documentary series, 24 episodes)
Europa, Europa – Agnieszka Holland, 1991, Germany (film)
Eyes on the Prize – PBS, 1987, USA (documentary series, 14 episodes)
First They Killed My Father – Angelina Jolie, 2017, USA (film)
Gosford Park – Robert Altman, 2002, USA (film)
The Grapes of Wrath – John Ford, 1940, USA (film)
The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrman, 2012, Australia (film)
Indo-Chine – Regis Wargnier, 1992, France (film)
Loving – Jeff Nichols, 2016, UK and USA (film)
Metropolis – Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927, (film)
Mississippi Burning – Alan Parker, 1988, USA (film)
Other People’s Lives – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006, Germany (film)
The People’s Century – exec producer Zvi Dor-Ner, 1997, UK (documentary series, 26 episodes)
The Pianist – Roman Polanski, 2002, UK (film)
Selma – Ava DuVernay, 2014, US (film)
Swing Kids – Thomas Carter, 1993, Germany (film)
Tea with Mussolini – Franco Zefferilli, 1999, Italy (film)
Triumph of the Will – Leni Reifenstahl, 1934, Germany (film)
Vietnam – PBS, Ken Burns, 2017, USA (documentary series)