Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918 by Glyn Harper
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: First World War Centenary History Ser.
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation's history. Over 100,000 men and women would embark for overseas service and almost 60,000 of them became casualties. For a small nation like New Zealand this ...Show more
50 Years Young by Taylor Kate
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
For 50 years the New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year awards have tested the mettle of New Zealand men and women as they go to head to head in a challenging competition that tests a range of farming and agribusiness skills.This warm-hearted book tells that history, beginning with the first regional fina ...Show more
Wars Without End: New Zealand's Land Wars - A Maori Perspective by Danny Keenan
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land ...Show more
Great Women's Speeches by Anna Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: History
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Womens Speeches is about women at the forefront of change-within politics, science, human rights, and media; discussing ever ...Show more
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ. For a hundred years, GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and Brit ...Show more
The Irish Difference: A Tumultuous History of Ireland's Breakup With Britain by Fergal Tobin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating and entertaining historical investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbours and why that led to independence.
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
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
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 Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...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