Blood Legacy - Reckoning with a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compen ...Show more
The Stonemason - A History of Building Britain by Andrew Ziminski
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft.In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Sali ...Show more
The Greywacke - How a Vicar, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History by Nick Davidson
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet.
The Year of Chaos - Northern Ireland on the Brink of Civil War, 1971-72 by Malachi O'Doherty
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The shocking story of the worst year of violence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, which included Bloody Sunday, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary.
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The true and heroic story of American POWs' daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp.In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp. Their story begins in the dark fore ...Show more
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was ...Show more
Espana: a Brief History of Spain by Giles Tremlett
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. 'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rul ...Show more
Devil Dogs - First in, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A Daily Telegraph History Book of the YearFrom Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were par ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
From Taranto to Trieste following the 2nd NZ Division's Italian Campaign, 1943-1945 by Jennifer Mallinson
$49.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Taranto to Trieste is an account of the author’s fascinating journey to retrace the actual path of the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy from its arrival in October 1943 until the end of the European war. Although a personal journey with personal reflections, the real story is about the largely off-the- ...Show more
Le Quesnoy 1918 by Christopher Pugsley
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking through defensive lines and scaling the town walls by ladder, the New Zealanders overwhelmed the defenders, freeing the town after years of German occupation. It w ...Show more
For King and Country: Four Brothers, Four Crosses by Jock Vennell
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Almost a generation of the best young men were wiped out... In all walks of life many of those who would have been the leaders were missing... Not only these men, but those who would have been their children are missing, and we have had to do our best without them. Sir Douglas Robb. An undergraduate in ...Show more