Rimutaka Railway by Norman Cameron
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Due to continuing interest in the history of the railway over the Rimutaka Range, Rimutaka Railway has been revised and reprinted. It contains text from the first edition along with new chapters on the Rimutaka Rail Trail and the Fell Locomotive Museum. The photographs have also been revised and show ju ...Show more
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 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
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War 'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times' Trist ...Show more
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Historian David Frye presents a bold new thesis on how 'civilization' happens-the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the medieval era and into the present.At the dawn of humanity's ascent, there was only bloody conflict: nomadic tribes slashing at each other, and ea ...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
Stonehenge: Panorama Pops by Gordy Wright
$14.99 NZD
Category: History
Celebrate Stonehenge with this beautifully illustrated three-dimensional souvenir guide. Remember your visit to Stonehenge for ever with this beautiful three-dimensional Panorama Pop, featuring highlights of the World Heritage Site and its surroundings. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, the guide unfol ...Show more
Bloody Okinawa - The Last Great Battle of World War II by Joseph Wheelan
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles f ...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
Animals in the Great War by Stephen Wynn; Tanya Wynn
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
Animals in the Great War looks at the use of animals by all sides in the Great War and to what effect. In the main, it focuses greatly on horses, dogs and pigeons but also addresses the war efforts of other animals.In the early years of the war horses were, to a large extent, the only form of transport ...Show more