Birds Aren't Real by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history - and how to fight back.Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults.In the 1970s, the United States government kille ...Show more
Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: General Adult
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the events leading up to the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe now turns his attention to the annexation and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The war of 1967 dramatically redrew the map of Israel and P ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
After Hitler by Michael Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. A ...Show more
SAS Forged in Hell - From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: the Mavericks Who Made the SAS by Damien Lewis
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'Wh ...Show more
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping tale involves inspired and corrupt monarchs, the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists and the greatest beauties in Christendom. Here are the stories ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland. Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee ...Show more
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... 'There's something that hits the mark on every page' - Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of wa ...Show more
The City of Today Is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
$46.99 NZD
Category: History
An unmissable journey into the past, present and future of urban life.
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London by Erik Larson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisisOne of Chicago Tribune's Best Books of the Year So Far ...Show more