The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an exp ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love, murder, war and betrayal, filled with passion, intrigue and sorrow, peopled by a cast of heroines, villains, stateswomen and lover ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
Made to Order: George Thwaites & Sons, Colonial Cabinetmakers by Robert La Nauze
$72.99 NZD
Category: History
From majestic carved chairs and handsome cedar desks in Melbourne's banks to grand bookcases in country mansions and stately furniture still housed in Victoria's Government House today, Made to Order celebrates the furniture made by George Thwaites and his sons. For three decades following the discovery ...Show more
Antiques Roadshow 40 Years of Great Finds by Paul Atterbury
$27.99 NZD
$45.00 (37% off)
Category: History
A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series.Gracing our screens for nearly forty years, one of the nation's most beloved television programmes has become a nationalinstitution. The Antiques Roadshow has given the ...Show more
Escaping Hitler: The Freedom Trails by Monty Halls
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Some of the most extraordinary stories of courage and endurance in the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and American servicemen made the journey over the Pyrenees, the Slovenian mountains and the Italia ...Show more
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But ...Show more
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to da Vinci, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and ...Show more
Between the Wars : 1919-1939 by Philip Ziegler
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural and social as well as politica ...Show more
Stop The Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune by James W. Ure
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
This disturbing exposU examines how the powerful Mormon Church tried to destroy the Salt Lake Tribune, a voice that had long been critical of many of its activities and its secrets. The author, a Mormon and a journalist who once worked for the Tribune, tells a story of secret deals, behind-the-scenes ba ...Show more
Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage by Ivan Castro
$27.99 NZD
Category: History