The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Driving Back the Nazis - The Allied Liberation of Western Europe, Autumn 1944 by Martin King
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A gripping account of the Allied liberation of Western Europe, masterfully told by Emmy-award winning writer and historian Martin King. Through the autumn of 1944, Allied troops made their way across Nazi-occupied Europe, liberating towns and villages as they went. Driving Back the Nazis explores th ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in pow ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservatio ...Show more
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Revised and Updated by Eric H. Cline
$34.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Turning Points in Ancient History Ser.
From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages. In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the 'Sea Peoples' invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victo ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$44.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Worn on This Day - The Clothes That Made History by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
This stunning visual guide is a journey of discovery through fashion's fascinating history, one day at a time. Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Worn On This Day looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries, offering capsule fashion histories of everything from sp ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
The History of Science in Bite-Sized Chunks by Nicola Chalton; Meredith MacArdle
$19.99 NZD
Category: History
Since ancient times, we have tried to make sense of our universe by observing objects far beyond our abilities to see or touch--from the smallest atom to the farthest star. This book covers, in chronological order, all the key discoveries and remarkable minds in each scientific field, including Aristotl ...Show more
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Mieville
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document- the Communist Manifesto. In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx and Engels's apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more