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
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Killing the SS - The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History by Bill O'Reilly
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Bill o'Reilly's Killing Ser.
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organizat ...Show more
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
ALos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1New York Times bestsellerBlack Hawk Down,Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offe ...Show more
The Scottish Clearances - A History of the Dispossessed by T. M. Devine
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change: traditional and customa ...Show more
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader... Surveyors in Brit ...Show more
Life On Earth 40th Anniversary Edition by Sir David Attenborough
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Anniversary Ed.
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's meeting with gorillas was one of the most unforgettable moments for millions of television viewers. With Life on Earth, Attenborough created a book and TV series that became a benchmark of q ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
The Ravenmaster: Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens at Britain's most famous national monument. For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower ...Show more
The London Cage - The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre (PB) by Helen Fry
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence treatment." The stakes were hi ...Show more
The University of Oxford - A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
The University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. Institutions have waxed and waned over the centuries, but Oxford has always succeeded in reinventing itself to meet the demands of a new age. This book offers a succinct illustrat ...Show more
The Battleship Bismarck by Stefan Draminski
$62.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Anatomy of the Ship Ser.
The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous and notorious - warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sunk HMS Hood, the pride of the British Navy, during one of the most sensational encounters in naval history. Following the sinking, Bismarck was chased around the North Atlant ...Show more