A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...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
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
$32.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? by Gotz Aly
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and perceptive as those of German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust, from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism did not originat ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservatio ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
The Countess from Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Elizabeth von Armin
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirl ...Show more
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playdon
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day' Magnificently researched and told' Lord Michael Cashman CBE 'A landmark work' Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'Gripping and important' Michael Bronski, author of ...Show more
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. In this rich and nuanced po ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Packed with revelations, this history traces the corrupt, bloody money that was hoarded by Nazi families during and after the Second World War – and how that money has translated into wealth and power for well known companies and tycoons today. Three weeks after Hitler seized power in Germany he called ...Show more
Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials by Alice Roberts
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.'This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us he ...Show more