Propaganda: Truth and Lies in Times of Conflict by Tony Husband
$19.99 NZD
Category: History
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Who Discovered What When by Ellyard David
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Who Discovered What When? is an absorbing and easy-toread book about the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge since 1500. From Galileo, Newton and Darwin to Ernest Rutherford, Neils Bohr and Linus Pauling, it presents the scientists who have hypothesised, experimented and revealed the physical worki ...Show more
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? by Horace Greasley; Ken Scott
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
An incredible true tale of one man's courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of love Horace "Jim" Greasley was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British go ...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 Telegraph This new history of the first two years of this crucial battle for the heart and soul ...Show more
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
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
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen MATTHEWS
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and ...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