Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Pre-order the revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's defeat of the conspirators ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Shockwave - Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was a moment that stilled and forever changed the world. On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb - dubbed 'Little Boy' by its creators - was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unima ...Show more
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Unnamed
$14.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The Little Books of Literature Ser.
A book about books for people who love books, packed full of one-liners, quotes and famous lines from books. The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recog ...Show more
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
Everest 1922 - The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the Worlds Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, popu ...Show more