The Birth of Korean Cool - How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture by Euny Hong
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
How did a really unhip country suddenly become cool? How could a nation that once banned miniskirts, long hair on men and rock 'n' roll come to mass produce pop music and a K-pop star that would break the world record for the most YouTube hits? Who would have predicted that a South Korean company that u ...Show more
Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator by Bill O'Reilly
$19.99 NZD
Category: History
By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Brau ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The roar of frenzied spectators inside the Coliseum during a battle between gladiators. A crowd of onlookers gathered around a slave driver. The wondrous plenty of banquets where flamingos are roasted whole and wine flows like rivers. The silence of the baths and the boisterous taverns . . . Many books ...Show more
R.I.P by Nigel Williams
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behaviour of everyone around him, it would seem that he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away too - and on the eve of her 99th year, poor dear. Not only that, it could be that they were both murdered. He ...Show more
The Queen and Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship by Dean Palmer
$0.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain at the time met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the Miner ...Show more
Betsy and the Emperor: The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake, and an Australian Colonial Misadventure by Anne Whitehead
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a loc ...Show more
Bombing Europe: The Illustrated Exploits of the Fifteenth Air Force by Kevin A. Mahoney
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Get the complete story of one of the most ambitious aerial campaigns in history--the bombing of Europe under the Axis powers--illustrated with over 200 compelling photos. Created in November 1943, the Fifteenth Air Force was the direct descendant of the American Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces that had fou ...Show more
Hidden Treasures of London by Michael McNay
$77.00 NZD
Category: History
Nobody could deny that London is one of the most culturally and architecturally rich places in the world. We cannot think of it without calling to mind buildings such as the Houses of Parliament and St Paul's Cathedral, monuments such as Nelson's Column and the Cenotaph, and the incredible collections o ...Show more
Surveillance A-Z by Danny Schechter
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In Surveillance A-Z Danny Schechter illuminates one of the most complex and many-sided aspects of contemporary life: surveillance. Based on months of interviews with journalists, security experts, government officials and whistleblowers, it blasts open the brave new world in which we are living, where ' ...Show more
The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small, and Why They Matter by Richard Girling
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded. The Somali golden mole was first described in 1964, but the sole evidence for its existence is a tiny fragment of jawbone found in an owl pellet. Intrigued by this elusive creature, and what it can tell us about extinct ...Show more
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
$79.99 NZD
Category: History
We live in a globalized world, but mobility is nothing new. Barry Cunliffe tells the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it covers over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expans ...Show more
Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa by Kenneth S. Broun
$17.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in World History
The question was: would he hang? In 1963, when South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received during his trial not onl ...Show more