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
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti_Nazi by Paul Kix
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring ex ...Show more
The Templars: Rise & Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Knights Templarwere the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the militaryorders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story - encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealthand influence f ...Show more
Pepys and His Contemporaries : A Pocketbook Guide to Diarist Samuel Pepys and His Era by Richard Ollard
$21.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age of King Charles II, of Wren and Newton and Nell Gwyn, of the Plague and the Great Fire, it is a rare and honest report th ...Show more
Tennyson and His Circle by Lynne Truss
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
"Tennyson's ascendancy as England foremost poet coincided with one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century: photography. As Poet Laureate, Tennyson and those who moved in his circle became targets for the photographer's lens. The resulting portraits, by such pioneering spirits as Ju ...Show more
The Romantic Poets and Their Circle by Richard Holmes
$21.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
The ideal of the inspired artist owes its origin to the figures of the Romantic period, who revolutionised English art and literature. In this book, Richard Holmes explores the portraits and lives of such key poets as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, and assesses the impact of their work ...Show more
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we wor ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to ...Show more
Man of Iron by Julian Glover
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plungin ...Show more
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: One Family's Fight Against Italian Fascism
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two - Spearhead of Victory by Patrick Bishop
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAir warfare was a terrible novelty ...Show more
Tidal Wave "From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay" by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver; Rear Admiral Doniphan P. Shelton (Foreword by)
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
Now publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition from new and terrifying sources, notably the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze.The United States Navy wo ...Show more