Between the Wars : 1919-1939 by Philip Ziegler
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural and social as well as politica ...Show more
Stop The Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune by James W. Ure
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
This disturbing exposU examines how the powerful Mormon Church tried to destroy the Salt Lake Tribune, a voice that had long been critical of many of its activities and its secrets. The author, a Mormon and a journalist who once worked for the Tribune, tells a story of secret deals, behind-the-scenes ba ...Show more
Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage by Ivan Castro
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever.Charles I's re ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotla ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The Untold Story of Qantas, its Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II by Jim Eames
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese. It is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge a ...Show more
The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up by Michael Meyer
$52.99 NZD
Category: History
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent t ...Show more
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A searing memoir of survival: the daughter of the jailed former leader of the FLDS Church reveals the true nature of the cult and how she escaped
The World in Conflict : Understanding the World's Troublespots by John Andrews
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
In the second decade of each century, a new global order commonly starts to assert itself. In the 19th, Napoleon's defeat gave birth to the world of rivalrous European powers. In the 20th, the First World War triggered a wave of revolutions that cleared a path for the American era. Ours appears to be no ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Enigma: The Battle For The Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another ...Show more
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.' Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of t ...Show more