Reading on the Farm - Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World by Lydia Wevers
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand. Drawing on station records, the archive produced by the library, and ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust-and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which modern society has not yet recovered One of the UK's most acclaimed books of the year: "Outstanding" (Times Literary Supplement); "Remarkable" (Guardian); "Important and ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell, and almost no ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Dunkirk to D-Day by Jeff Steel
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
From Dunkirk, Dieppe and to D-Day, Bill Adlam's war experience reads like fiction. Secret missions, commando raids and the Military Medal – this is a rip-roaring true story of action, military prowess and courage.
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War? A Times Book of the Year 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' - Dominic Sandbrook In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis force ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A Gripping Story of Wartime Courage and Adventure by Neil Churches
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor ...Show more