The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing people such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central t ...Show more
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 Eyewitness Accounts of a Soldier's Life in the Early 1800s by Jon E. Lewis
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Contemporaries were mesm ...Show more
London Thames Path by David Fathers
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
David Fathers presents a unique and richly illustrated guide to the London section of the Thames Path, which runs along both banks of the river from Putney Bridge to the Thames Barrier. Together, the two paths make up a panoramic 40-mile walk through 2000 years of London's history. * From the old docks ...Show more
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Clayton Burroughs is the Sheriff of Bull Mountain and the black sheep of the brutal and blood-steeped Burroughs clan. In the forties and fifties, the family ran moonshine over six state lines. In the sixties and seventies, they farmed the largest above-ground marijuana crop on the East Coast, and now th ...Show more
Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII by Randall Hansen
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary true stories of German resistance to Hitler's murderous orders at the end of the Second World War.In the last months of World War II, Hitler ordered destruction across Europe on a massive scale: wrecking towns, ports, industries, museums and railways. Yet a brave few, many of whom paid ...Show more
The Invention of Memory: An Irish Family Scrapbook by Simon Loftus
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
From the arrival of his first ancestor in Dublin in 1560, Simon Loftus traces the fascinating story of his family's heritage in Ireland - piecing together fragments of legend and biography that span over 350 years of Irish history. The background is the colonial conquest of Ireland and the clash of reli ...Show more
Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery to Australia by Graham Seal
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.
100 Things They Don't Want You to Know by Daniel Smith
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: 100 Things
Who was the Mothman? What caused the death of the Bordens? Did Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate JFK? And what was the true meaning of the 'WOW' signal? Daniel Smith, author of 100 Places You Will Never Visit, sets out to uncover the truth behind 100 unexplained events that have been shrouded in secrecy for ...Show more
Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott by Andrew P Street
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
Poor people don't drive cars. People have the right to be bigots. I'm a fixer. Team Australia. Shirtfonting. Choppergate. Stop the boats. Coal is good for humanity. No cuts to health. Sir Prince Philip. The flags. It's all the fault of the febrile media. And that whole onion thing.In August 2013, Austra ...Show more
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the ea ...Show more
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: My Untold Story of the Struggle for Tibet by Anne F. Thurston
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo Thondup is none other than the older brother of the Dalai Lama and his special envoy, a trusted interloc ...Show more
The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of ...Show more