A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England by Sue Wilkes
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skilfully conjures up all as ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss. The Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story by Tessa Dunlop
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The woman of Bletchley Park have a unique story to tell. Although critical to the success of the project to break the German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, their contribution has been consistently overlooked and undervalued. Through unprecedented access to surviving veterans, this boo revea ...Show more
I Met Lucky People :The Story Of The Romani Gypsies by YARON MATRAS
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Description: In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral culture, they have no written reco ...Show more
The Templars - History and Myth - From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons - A Guide to Templar History Culture & Locations by Michael Haag
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive histo ...Show more
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 by Annabelle Gurwitch
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Actor and humourist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with this New York Times bestseller, a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age. Whether she is falling in lust at the Genius Bar, coping with her best friend's assisted suicide or navigating the extensive and tre ...Show more
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pin ...Show more
The Darkest Days - The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914 by Douglas J Newton
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Darkest Days shows how the war-hungry leaders and the right-wing press hustled the nation into war, making only the barest efforts to save the peace. As a result the declaration was the result of political negotiation, dishonesty and willful belligerence that split the cabinet and kept the oppositio ...Show more
The Birth of Korean Cool - How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture by Euny Hong
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
How did a really unhip country suddenly become cool? How could a nation that once banned miniskirts, long hair on men and rock 'n' roll come to mass produce pop music and a K-pop star that would break the world record for the most YouTube hits? Who would have predicted that a South Korean company that u ...Show more
30-Second Twentieth Century by Jonathan Reynold
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The 50 most significant ideas and events of the last 100 years, each explained in half a minute.
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himse ...Show more
Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal That Made America by Brooke C. Stoddard
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
Steel provides the backbone for modern civilization - read all about its history, journey, and place in the world. What is steel? How does it work? Why has it been so important? Who are the people who make it? How do they make it? Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America answers these quest ...Show more