Helicopter Boys by Richard Pike
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Helicopter Boys is the latest addition to Grub Street's Boys series from acclaimed author Richard Pike exploring the role of helicopters in military and civilian situations. With over fifteen contributors, Helicopter Boys contains stories of the diverse nature of helicopter operations. From the dramatic ...Show more
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best by Gavin Roynon
$19.99 NZD
Category: History
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working wi ...Show more
With Them Through Hell by Rogers Anna
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers,dentists, ch ...Show more
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then ...Show more
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War by Rowland White
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
'Utterly brilliant- a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval task force. Eight thousand miles from home, its fat ...Show more
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it's never been told before BERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers-- th ...Show more
The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
A gripping new account of the infamous Phoenix Park murders which rocked Victorian England. In May 1882, a double murder occurred in full daylight in Dublin's Phoenix Park. One victim was an Irish bureaucrat, Thomas Burke; the other was Lord Frederick Cavendish, gentle aristocrat and much-loved protege ...Show more
Escape from Earth - A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Lies, spies, sex-magic and socialism: the secret history of the first American rocket in space.
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest i ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more
A Very English Scandal - Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader of ...Show more