Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the ...Show more
The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles
$90.00 NZD
Category: History
The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (the White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Strange Antics - A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
What makes a bad choice irresistible? In brilliantly original history, Clement Knox offers new insight into the art - and history, legality, politics and literature - of seduction. If sex has generally been agreed a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff ...Show more
Memoirs of a Kamikaze - A World War II Pilot's Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation by Kazuo Odachi; Alexander Bennett (Translator); Shigeru Ota; Hiroyoshi Nishijima
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history. This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who--in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old--joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigne ...Show more
Wings over Water - The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and celebration of speed and engineering prowess.
Glossy: The Inside Story of Vogue by Nina-Sophia Miralles
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue. Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's ...Show more
The Verso Book of Feminism - Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history. Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People-of any and no gender-have protested and theorized ...Show more
Devils on Horses: In the Words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19 by Terry Kinloch
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Reunited with their horses in Egypt after the shattering experience of Gallipoli (a story recounted in Terry Kinloch's earlier book, Echoes of Gallipoli), the Anzac mounted riflemen and light horsemen were initially charged with the defence of the Suez Canal, then with the clearance of the Sinai peninsu ...Show more
Ocean - Tales of Voyaging and Encounter that Defined New Zealand by Sarah Ell
$70.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Lying in the middle of a vast ocean, Aotearoa New Zealand was the last habitable land mass in the world to be settled by humans. Our history represents the powerful coming-together of two great seafaring traditions, Polynesian and European.Oceantells the stories of pioneers and trail-blazers, from the b ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$52.99 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more