Heaven on Earth - The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals by Emma J. Wells
$38.99 NZD
Category: History
A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built them. 'An impeccable guide to the golden age of ecclesiastical architecture' The Times 'Vivid, colourful and absorbing' Dan Jones 'An epic ode to some of our mo ...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
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
$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
History of the World Map by Map by SNOW PETER (FOREWORD BY)
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...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
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.'A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA - and how one meeti ...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
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more