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
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...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
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
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 House of Government - A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
$54.99 NZD
Category: History
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, a ...Show more
On the Shadow Tracks - A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of ...Show more
The Struggle for Taiwan - A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic ...Show more