Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep ...Show more
Fifty Years On - The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
An evocative memoir that explores the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their legacy, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the start of the armed violence that marked the beginning of this period.
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...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 Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Chastise (The Dambusters Story 1943) by Max Hastings
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national le ...Show more
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West by Katie Hickman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard."The true-life story of women's experiences in the 'Wild West' is more gripping, more heart-rending, and more stirring than all the movies, ...Show more
Flies, Sand and Unwashed Socks - Letters from WWII: New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 by R. G. Harris; Susan Cambridge
$31.50 NZD
Category: History
Letters from WWII New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 R.G. (Dick) Harris These letters are from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Italy: Dick Harris travelled huge distances in North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. For more than three years he lived with bombing from the air and s ...Show more
The Monarchy - A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish by Christopher Hitchens
$0.00 NZD
Category: History
Why, when the subject of royalty or monarchy is mentioned, do the British bid adieu to every vestige of proportion, modesty, humour and restraint? This title looks at the relationship of the press and the public to the royal family, unpacking the tautology and contradictory arguments that prop it up. ...Show more
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think...Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question- how to be happy. His deep ...Show more
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pultizer-prize winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as coal and oil are now making room for natural gas, nuclear power and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman – and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research – as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and follows a small ‘Carnelian’ bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat. Dr Cat Jarman is a ...Show more