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
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
A polemical history of the British ruling class and how they ended up owning our nation. The full and sometimes shocking story of the aristocracy in England, Scotland and Ireland, from Anglo-Saxon times until the present day. Exploring the political significance of the peerage in the House of Lords as w ...Show more
The Paras : An Oral History by Max Arthur
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Published to coincide with 75th anniversary of its formation, this is the definitive history of the iconic Parachute Regiment, told through the voices of more than 200 of the soldiers themselves. From the daring raids of World War 2 through Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Bosnia and Afghanistan, the Pa ...Show more
To Catch a King by Charles Spencer
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
Guided by its various twists and turns To Catch a King is an unputdownable book which tells an old story with new eyes, challenging our polarised notions of royalism, nationalism and loyalty. King Charles I's life ended with his neck: he was beheaded outside his London palace in January 1649. It was pre ...Show more
The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey Into Legend by Joan Breton Connelly
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state's patron deity, Athena, and its sculpture ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love, murder, war and betrayal, filled with passion, intrigue and sorrow, peopled by a cast of heroines, villains, stateswomen and lover ...Show more
Escaping Hitler: The Freedom Trails by Monty Halls
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Some of the most extraordinary stories of courage and endurance in the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and American servicemen made the journey over the Pyrenees, the Slovenian mountains and the Italia ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotla ...Show more
Typewriters : Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing by Bruce (PHT) Anthony; Curtis Tom (FRW); Casillo Hanks
$49.99 NZD
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Category: History
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
"Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day--written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the ...Show more
One Day in August by David O'Keefe
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless con ...Show more