History of the World Map by Map by SNOW PETER (FOREWORD BY)
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...Show more
To Besiege a City - Leningrad 1941-42 by Prit Buttar
$64.99 NZD
Category: History
A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The TelegraphThis new history of the first two years of this crucial battle for the heart and soul of ...Show more
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.'A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA - and how one meeti ...Show more
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of contro ...Show more
Egyptomaniacs - How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Epypt by Nicky Nielsen
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
The Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was unsurpassed in the arts and in good governance, surpassing even that of the Greeks. During the Renaissance, several ecclesiastical nobles, including the Borgia Pope Alexander VI claimed their d ...Show more
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvent ...Show more
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, ...Show more
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more
Soviet Image by Peter Radetsky
$112.50 NZD
$125.99 (10% off)
Category: Photography
For the first time, the Russian news agency TASS has opened its complete photographic archives to create an unprecedented and uncensored look at the last 100 years of life in the Soviet Union and the new Russia as seen through Russian eyes. Featuring more than 250 astonishing photographs - many never be ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (HB) by Caroline Elkins
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindAsearing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bareits pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain' ...Show more
The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation by Richard Shaw
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
WHAT IT MEANS TO OWN YOUR PAST After Richard Shaw published his acclaimed memoir The Forgotten Coast in 2021, he made contact with Pakeha with long settler histories who were coming to grips with the truth of their respective families' 'pioneer stories'. They were questioning the foundation of aggressi ...Show more
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by Andrew Doig
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The Times'Gripping and fascinating' Mail on Sunday'The obvious beauty of This Mortal Coil is that in being a history of death, it is also a history of life, and a brilliant, fascinating one a ...Show more