The Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
This is a Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Shortlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize 2014. From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mo ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have ...Show more
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for Henry V, and at least one for the French. This is a un ...Show more
Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son by Penny Junor
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the Prince Harry you've never read about before. This is the story behind the tabloid stories. The Prince who has the power to make or break. The maverick Prince, who is brilliant, impetuous and unpredictable. The Prince who with his unique talents, charm and bloody-minded determination is chang ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers by James Crawford
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
In the Land of Giants by Max Adams
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain (410) and the death of Alfred the Great (899) have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers, but Britain's 'Dark Ages' can still be explored through their material remnants: buildings, books, metalwork, and, above all, landscapes. Max Adams explor ...Show more
A Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
A vivid, in-the-round portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from the best-selling author of The Plantagenets England in 1215. This was not just the year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges, ...Show more
North Men: The Viking Saga 793-1241 AD by John Haywood
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the late 8th to the mid- ...Show more
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
Marilyn Johnson, the author of two acclaimed books about quirky subcultures–The Dead Beat (about obituary writers) and This Book Is Overdue! (about librarians)–brings her irrepressible wit and curiosity to bear on yet another strange world, that of archaeologists. Who chooses to work in ruins? What's th ...Show more
Fighters and Bombers by Gavin Conroy (By (photographer))
$39.99 NZD
$69.99 (42% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: New
Fighters and Bombers follows on from Gavin Conroy's earlier book Precious Metal. Where the first book focused on WWII fighter planes that were either restored or based in New Zealand, Fighters and Bombers contains WWII bombers and includes other aircraft photographed air-to-air in the USA, Canada, Austr ...Show more