Fighters and Bombers by Gavin Conroy (By (photographer))
$39.99 NZD
$69.99 (42% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: New
Fighters and Bombers follows on from Gavin Conroy's earlier book Precious Metal. Where the first book focused on WWII fighter planes that were either restored or based in New Zealand, Fighters and Bombers contains WWII bombers and includes other aircraft photographed air-to-air in the USA, Canada, Austr ...Show more
Within Arm's Length by Dan Emmett
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent, one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the ...Show more
Putinism by Walter Laqueur
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the blam ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949: Volume 8 by Ian Kershaw
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
Telegraph Books of the Year and Editor's Choice 2015 BBC History Magazine Books of the Year 2015. In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survi ...Show more
The Storms of War by Kate Williams
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. German Rudolf and his aristocratic English wife Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter, Emmeline, while their eldest son Arthur is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the ...Show more
No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time - and What They Did Next by Chris Wright
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
What do you do with the rest of your life, after you've achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated-journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and you ...Show more
The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Summer of Blood : The Peasant's Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, Summer of Blood breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting w ...Show more
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people an ...Show more
The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth by Herbie Sykes
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Cycling Book of the Year 2015 - Cross British Sports Book Award Unbeknownst to the authorities, however, he had fallen in love with Sylvia Hermann, a girl from the other side of the wall. Socialist doctrine had it that the two of them were 'class enemies', and as a famous athlete Dieter's every move wa ...Show more