Just an Orange for Christmas: Stories from the Wairarapa by Christine Hunt Daniell
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
When Christine Hunt Daniell sat down with pen and paper and talked with the ‘old- timers’ for this book, her motivation was to preserve more than the bland surface details of regional history. The stories are from the Wairarapa, but their core is essential New Zealand experience, exposing something univ ...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
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$35.00 NZD
$37.99 (7% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more
House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience. At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet w ...Show more
Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
Rummage - A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go by Emily Cockayne
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages.
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
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 Short History of the American Civil War by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The American Civil War in a classic Royal hardback formatDiscover what happened during one of the most controversial conflicts in US history, and its causes and lasting consequences, episode by episode. Covering the pivotal political, military, and cultural events ar ...Show more
Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades. On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of ...Show more
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Jerry Toner
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Marcus Sidonius Falx Trilogy Ser.
The first ever travel guide to the Roman Empire. Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor ...Show more
Echoes of Gallipoli: In the Words of New Zealand's Mounted Riflemen by Terry Kinloch
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
First published ten years ago to enthusiastic reviews and critical acclaim, this classic celebrated readable scholarship is now available in paperback. Using their letters and diaries, Echoes of Gallipoli tells the story of Gallipoli through the eyes of the men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ...Show more