Last Word by Mark Lane
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Mark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Co ...Show more
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
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
Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters by Jonathan Eyers
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years. The twentieth century was the age of the great ocean vessels, capable of carrying thousands of passengers, but it also bec ...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
Days of God by James Buchan
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan lives each moment of t ...Show more
Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean Since 1800 by Robert Holland
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
"Blue-Water Empire" is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger. Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire, as both ...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
Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten F ...Show more
India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation by Oliver Balch
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel
India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood ...Show more