The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France by Shelley Puhak
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history' Dan Jones 'Fredegund and Brunhild have finally foun ...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
Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West - How Global Trade Transformed the World by Greg Clydesdale
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in Europe. The ports were filled with commodities from all over the eastern world, while new technology was driving the economy forward. It would take another 40 ...Show more
War: A History in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand h ...Show more
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China by Dominic Ziegler
$19.99 NZD
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Category: History
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which ...Show more
Primo Levi's Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy by Sergio Luzzatto
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A pioneering examination of the Italian Resistance and the grim secret that haunted Primo Levi s lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian ...Show more
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mik ...Show more
30- Second London: The 50 Key Visions, Events and Architects by Edward Dennison
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
If you are tired of London, are you really tired of life? 30-Second London agrees with Dr. Johnson's famous statement, taking the history of one of the most diverse cities on Earth and looking at the forces that shaped it, from the first traces of a Neanderthal settlement on the banks of the River Thame ...Show more
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
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Orwell - A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the age of Brexit, Trump, and populism, even more so. 'Doublethink' features in Nineteen Eighty-Four and it is the forerunner to 'F ...Show more
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a hand ...Show more
The John Deere Tractor Legacy: The Complete Illustrated History from Tractors & Machinery to Deere's Role in Farm Life, 1837 to Today by Don Macmillan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport
At last, a paperback reissue of this classic history of John Deere! Edited by the world's most respected and best known Deere historian and expert-Don Macmillan-this is a detailed and fun history of the great tractor builder. This comprehensive history of the man, his company, and his legacy includes a ...Show more