Russia: Putin's Playground: Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar by Anastasia Edel
$12.99 NZD
Category: History
Empire, Revolution, and the New Tsar Is Russia in the hands of a lunatic? Ever since Vladimir Putin s presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism domestically, the leade ...Show more
Iran: Ally or Enemy?: Persian Empire, Pariah State, Nuclear Partner by Lightning Guides
$12.99 NZD
Category: History
Persian Empire, Pariah State, Nuclear Partner After decades of political and cultural isolation, Iran faces a new chapter in its 2500-year-old history. Following the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iran will re-enter international trade markets and be reinstated in the eyes of the West. Trace the evolution ...Show more
Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly ...Show more
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood
$85.00 NZD
Category: History
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand statel ...Show more
Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion by Jonathan Clements
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside the ...Show more
The Third Reich in History and Memory by Richard J. Evans
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
In this fascinating and enlightening collection of essays, one of the most important historians of our time reflects on the ways our understanding of Nazi Germany have been transformed in the twenty-first century. Richard Evans examines new historical perspectives on the Third Reich, such as showing how ...Show more
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelect ...Show more
Clapton: The Ultimate Illustrated History by Chris Welch
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: General Adult
Eric Clapton is one of the greatest rock-and-roll guitar players and songwriters the world has ever known. This is his fully updated story. Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists--ever. His five-decade-long career includes time with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, ...Show more
Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was 93 per cent and he went on to become Labour's longest-serving premier. On his first election campaign, Blair had promised that ...Show more
A Boy in the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World by Ben Lochtenberg
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
A Singapore 1931 born young colonial Dutch boy, whose Father suffered and died as a Japanese prisoner of war building a railway in Sumatra, escaped from Java with his Mother and arrived as a refugee in Bunbury Australia in 1942. Educated by Jesuits and then at the University of Western Australia and Oxf ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has gro ...Show more
The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles ...Show more