The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Summer of Blood : The Peasant's Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, Summer of Blood breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting w ...Show more
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people an ...Show more
The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth by Herbie Sykes
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Cycling Book of the Year 2015 - Cross British Sports Book Award Unbeknownst to the authorities, however, he had fallen in love with Sylvia Hermann, a girl from the other side of the wall. Socialist doctrine had it that the two of them were 'class enemies', and as a famous athlete Dieter's every move wa ...Show more
Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zer ...Show more
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's Threat to the West by Luke Harding
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. Based on the best part of a decade's reporti ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
Warriors on Horseback: The Inside Story of the Professional Jockey by John Carter
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
A remarkable and riveting insight into the lives of jockeys. Jockeys who earn a living race riding on racehorses are a remarkable group. They are fiercely competitive on the racecourse but enjoy a tribal kinship in the weighing room. The minimum requirements for long-term success are courage, skill, ath ...Show more
National Geographic the Greeks: An Illustrated History by Diane Harris Cline
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; maps of major battles and the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by anc ...Show more
All Behind You, Winston - Churchill's War Ministry: The Coalition That Led Britain to its Finest Hour by Roger Hermiston
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
On 14 May 1940, the Evening Standard published a cartoon with the caption 'All Behind You, Winston'. It showed Churchill, the freshly installed prime minister, rolling up his sleeves to confront the oncoming menace of Nazi Germany. In his wake, leading the endless ranks of the British people, marched th ...Show more
Russia: Putin's Playground: Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar by Anastasia Edel
$12.99 NZD
Category: History
Empire, Revolution, and the New Tsar Is Russia in the hands of a lunatic? Ever since Vladimir Putin s presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism domestically, the leade ...Show more