Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 16
In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The ...Show more
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Catherine was married aged 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir to the throne of all the Russias, a feckless teenager with a weakness for drink. Catherine was only able to give him an heir by passing off her lover's son as his own. In 1762, Catherine rode out of St Pe ...Show more
Tudors: A History of England: v. 2 by Peter Ackroyd
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 16
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how ...Show more
One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History by Jacob F. Field
$19.99 NZD
Category: History
Ever wondered why Tsar Ivan was the dubbed 'the Terrible' or how King Henri II of France perished in a jousting incident? Grisly and gruesome, this book details the vile history of bloodthirsty kings and queens, savage battles, torture and punishment, as well as deathly locations from the days of the an ...Show more
The Women Of The Cousins War by Philippa Gregory
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and tw ...Show more
Visions of England: Or Why We Still Dream of a Place in the Country by Roy Strong
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
What does it mean to be English? For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles - reaching its apogee in the rule of Elizabeth I - and later by the island's imperial might and expansion. But alongside t ...Show more
Adventurous Empires: The Story of the Short Empire Flying-Boats by Phillip E. Sims
$75.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britain's national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for t ...Show more
Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists by John Avlon
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
America's story has always been best told in its newspapers. From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sunday sermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played an outsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in America have always been the crucible w ...Show more
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube by Andrew Martin
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
It is an entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway. Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most spraw ...Show more
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most imp ...Show more
Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World by Michael Burleigh
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 16
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary pioneers and venal and rapacious railway barons. H ...Show more