Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
"A mind-shaking work of investigative history". ("Wall Street Journal"). Checkpoint Charlie, 27 October 1961. At 9pm on a damp night, the "Cold War" reaches crisis point, US and Soviet tanks face off across the East-West divide, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, could spring the tripwi ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
30,000 Years of Invention by Thomas Craughwell
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
For anyone who wants to delve into the history of science and technology, 30,000 Years of Invention provides a chronological look at the break throughs, discoveries, and systems of inventions that have changed human life. From the discovery of fire to the invention of the steam engine and the Pentium c ...Show more
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its best. In 1702, fourteen years after she h ...Show more
Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand by Bridget O'Donnell
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war...Welcome to London, 1885. In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Girls from poor backgrounds were enticed, tricked and sold - sometimes by their own parents - into prostitution. From the city, if not already marked ...Show more
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
Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse: Man and Beast in an Age of Human Warfare by Frank Westerman
$42.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
'When you touch a Lipizzaner,' Frank Westerman was told as a child, 'you are touching history.' In "Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse" he explores the history of these unique creatures, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses first bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the ...Show more
Indigo: In Search of the Colour That Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Indigo is the rich, electrifying history of a precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance - all very much alive today. But it is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley's ancestors include a clan of Sc ...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
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the sequel to the million-selling "Killing Lincoln": a thrilling new history of the assassination of JFK. More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American histor ...Show more
Shackleton's Whisky - A Spirit of Discovery by Neville Peat
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the cases of Mackinlay's single malt whisky that he left behind. The incredible tale of Antarctica, malt whisky and an epic journey. Sir Ernest Shackleton's world fame is founded on the Endurance expedition of 1914-17, an attempt to c ...Show more