Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has made an important contribution to the history of our times' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have m ...Show more
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Marina Dan: Amaral Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful' The Times. The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global confli ...Show more
India : An Epic Journey Across the Subcontinent by Michael Wood
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
Marco Polo described India as 'a land of wonders' in the 13th century, and his observation is no less true today. Everything about India is older, bigger, more colourful, more diverse and more intriguing than anywhere else. It is the land of a multitude of many armed gods and goddesses, home to the arch ...Show more
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, recreating a single Christian imperium in th ...Show more
The Berlin Wall - 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin W ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of live ...Show more
Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by her subjects. Beyond this, though, little is known: the chroniclers of the age left us only the faintest clues as to her life. So who was the real Matilda? In this first major bi ...Show more
On the Map : Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His compelling narra ...Show more
The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war bet ...Show more
Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - and Why They Can't Make Peace by Patrick Tyler
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
'Israel, six decades after its founding, remains a nation in thrall to an original martial impulse.' Born of idealism, under David Ben Gurion and his proteges, Dayan, Sharon and Peres, Israel came to prioritize security at all costs, and to seize land and water whenever opportunity arose. The security s ...Show more