Till the Cows Come Home - The Story of Our Eternal Dependence by Philip Walling
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Counting Sheep. 'A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past or the future should read.' Rosamund Young, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows ...Show more
The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba by Mark Braude
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exile on the small island of Elba is virtually unexplored. Now, for the first time, we have a window into this critical moment when the most powerful man on earth turns defeat into one final challenge.A close ...Show more
What's Your Type - Strange History Myers by Merve Emre
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type' New York Times'This is a sparkling biography - not of a person, but of a popular personality tool' Adam Grant An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a centu ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Alice in Westminster - The Political Life of Alice Bacon by Rachel Reeves
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a muc ...Show more
The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
It has always been mankind's gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them--and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world's greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first t ...Show more
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague by Norman Eisen
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting tale of the remarkable people who lived in the ...Show more
The Beastly Battles of Old England - The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War by Nigel Cawthorne
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When that got too easy, we set off around the world to fin ...Show more
The Indian Empire at War - From Jihad to Victory, the Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Almost two million volunteers served the Indian army in the Great War, always under British regimental officers, high commanders and staff. 150,000 of them were long-serving pre-war professional soldiers; most of the remainder were wartime recruits, drawn from across South Asia. Half of the Indian soldi ...Show more
War Gardens: A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm by Lalage Snow
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
"This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life." Spectator A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria ...Show more
Ottoman Odyssey - Travels Through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The author's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago--and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant; where medieval ...Show more
Women Who Changed the World - Over 100 of the Most Remarkable Women of the Last 100 Years by BOUNTY
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The 20th century began with a sense of great optimism after centuries of oppression. It was to be one of the most violent and tumultuous in world history, and paved the way for many people to seize opportunities and make a difference. It has also been the most progressive, tipping into the 21st century ...Show more