1001 Days That Shaped the World by FURTADO, PETER
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Fully updated for 2021, this is a comprehensive guide to those extraordinary moments that defined human history, written by respected figures from the fields of science, history, and journalism.
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
'A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handover of this unique and exciting city' Jasper Becker 'Deeply researched and beautifully written' Mike Chinoy A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The ...Show more
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A rigorous and celebratory journey through the history of pop music, from the former New York Times music critic. From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa S ...Show more
The Traitor of Colditz: The Untold Story of Britain's Bravest Double Agent by Robert Verkaik
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Drawing on unseen National Archives records, this book reveals the betrayal, espionage, and backstabbing within the ranks of the officers imprisoned in Colditz during WW2. How these men, surrounded by enemies, couldn't even afford to trust each other. And how the Traitor of Colditz almost led them to th ...Show more
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era by Alwyn Turner
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and popular culture 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets the recor ...Show more
The Lancaster Story - True Tales of Britain's Legendary Bomber by Sarah-Louise Miller
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
The epic story of the RAF's legendary heavy bomber: the Avro LancasterThe Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction in 1942 and the end of the Second World War, the Avro Lancaster flew more than 150,000 sorties, dropped more t ...Show more
A Very English Scandal - Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader of ...Show more
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does (2nd Edition) by Tomek E. Jankowski
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Almost four years after the publication of the first comprehensive popular history of Eastern Europe, Tomek Jankowski returns with a much-needed second edition that, like the first, seeks to demystify Europe's elusive 'other half.' These years have seen the Ukraine War, Putin's resurgent Russia, a migra ...Show more
The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition): Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Lifton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive work on the Nazi medical atrocities, a chilling expo ...Show more
Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion: A New History of the '45 Rebellion by Jacqueline Riding
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few people within Britain were alarmed. But ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink ...Show more
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so lon ...Show more