The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully ...Show more
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior, The Times'ravishingly lovely' Th ...Show more
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by Countess of Carnarvon
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon In November 1922, a new door to the ancient past was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing of the young century, revealing the ruler’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of artefacts: chariots and model boats, b ...Show more
The World in Conflict - Understanding the World's Troublespots by John Andrews
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A brand new look at global conflict from top Economist correspondent John Andrews.
Britain at Bay - The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of libert ...Show more
The Vagabonds - The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thom ...Show more
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the coloniser and those colonised.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Af ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
How does a nation recover from fascism?1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Post-war Germany found itself occupied over four zones by the victorious Allied forces. More than h ...Show more
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. There are many stories we can spin about years gone ...Show more
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Re ...Show more