Vikings by Neil Oliver
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. ...Show more
Nelson: The Sword of Albion by John Sugden
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination and his role in the blockade of Malta, often snatching remarkable t ...Show more
The History of Cycling in Fifty Bikes by Tom Ambrose
$39.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport
The invention of the bicycle changed history by democratizing travel for the first time. The common man - and importantly the common woman - could now afford to travel at reasonable speed without need of a horse. Instead of walking just ten miles a day on foot, a healthy individual could now ride up to ...Show more
Paper - An Elegy by Ian Sansom
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
A witty, personal and entertaining reflection on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell the ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$69.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history. The Ro ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$24.99 NZD
$59.99 (58% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I.In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society ...Show more
Some Unholy War by Terence Strong
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Dave Aston is a dead man walking. He was a member of the elite British SAS. He'd ridden an adrenalin wave, invincible. Black Ops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Until that final mission into bandit country. Unauthorised, with no back up. That was when his luck ran out ...Now, he's returned home to an alien civ ...Show more
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordina ...Show more
From the Trenches by Mark Dapin
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories. Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. In the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspirin ...Show more
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra Guha. The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us ...Show more
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling Past of the Cryptic Crossword by Alan Connor
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the Guardian's writer on crosswords. On 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old. In the ...Show more