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
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
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's ...Show more
The Hollow Crown - The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown togeth ...Show more
Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world. When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy E ...Show more
Artists' Letters - Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.
Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King (HB) by Kate Simpson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children's
The true story of Anzac girl Sister Alice Ross-King, who sailed to war in December 1914 and became the most decorated woman in Australia. It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she ...Show more
Double Lives - A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, workin ...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