The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war bet ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 1: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer. This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with h ...Show more
Human Game by Simon Read
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders from Churchill to bring the Gestapo murderers to just ...Show more
The New York Times Book of the Eighties: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities That Shaped the Decade by William Grimes
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
There is no better record of events than the New York Times and now, The New York Times Book of the 1980s captures the history, culture and personalities of the decade through hundreds of hand-selected articles and compelling original commentary in this unique and fascinating book. Organized by sections ...Show more
Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - and Why They Can't Make Peace by Patrick Tyler
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
'Israel, six decades after its founding, remains a nation in thrall to an original martial impulse.' Born of idealism, under David Ben Gurion and his proteges, Dayan, Sharon and Peres, Israel came to prioritize security at all costs, and to seize land and water whenever opportunity arose. The security s ...Show more
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog by Susan Orlean
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original 'blonde bombshell', epic in death as he was in life. In his prime, he was one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He received two thousand fan letters a month, had jewel ...Show more
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottom ...Show more
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and h ...Show more
The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 by Ciaran O Murchadha
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony examines this enormous human calamity anew. Beginning with the coming of the potato blight in 1845 and the resulting harvest failures that left the country's impoverished population numb with shock as well as foodless, it explores government relief measures that so ofte ...Show more
Anti-Judaism: The History of a Prejudice by David Nirenberg
$56.99 NZD
Category: History
A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism - whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign - ...Show more
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffo ...Show more
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction... LADY CATHERINE AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY tells the story of the beautiful American heiress who lived at Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award winning drama Downton Abbey. Glamorous and wealthy, Catherine became the t ...Show more