The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The WhaleIn colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in eve ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unm ...Show more
Stalin's Ghost (Indent) by Martin Cruz Smith
$17.99 NZD
Category: History
Once the Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko is now a pariah of the Prosecutor's Office and has been reduced to investigating reports of late-night subway riders seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. Part political hocus-pocus, part wishful thinking - even the illusion of the bloody di ...Show more
The Fateful Year : England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany, itself economically ruined by defeat in World War I and racked by internal political dissension. Between Russia and Germany lay Poland, a n ...Show more
Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and its Plan to Change the Course of World War II by John Geoghegan
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against ...Show more
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
The outbreak of the First World War was 'a drama never surpassed'. One hundred years later, the characters still seem larger than life: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, brooding heir to the Habsburg throne; the fanatical Bosnian Serb assassins who plot to murder him; Conrad and Berchtold, the Austrians who exp ...Show more
The Snowden Files: The True Inside Story on the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, from Obama to Cameron, to the presidents of Brazi ...Show more
History's Worst Battles by Joel Levy
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
In the bad, old, politically incorrect days, history was about individuals - kings, queens, emperors, prime ministers, generals, and presidents - and the battles they fought, and lost or won. Today, history is much more likely to be about technological change, economics, and abstract socio-political for ...Show more
Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family by Dennis Friedman
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
An updated edition of the history of the British royal family, which looks at them from a psychological viewpoint. Now includes Princes William and Harry, and the new royal baby.
Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front by Robert W. Malcolmson
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had enrolled. These brave and dutiful women played a vital role ...Show more
Hitler's Fortresses: German Fortifications and Defences, 1939-45 by Chris McNab
$79.99 NZD
Category: History
Hitler's Fortresses: German Fortifications and Defences 1939-45 is a detailed guide to every level of defensive project in the Third Reich. It takes you inside Channel Islands pillboxes, Normandy coastal gun positions and emplaced tank turrets on the Gothic Line in Italy. The secretive world of Hitler's ...Show more