Absolute Power : How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Paul Collins
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
Robert F. Kennedy Ripples of Hope by Kerry Kennedy
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through interviews with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity.
Imperial Twilight - The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
When Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of what had long been seen as the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Corruption, popular unrest and dwindling finances ha ...Show more
The Berlin Airlift - The Relief Operation That Defined the Cold War by Barry Turner
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode. Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies were determined ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Dealing with the mafia, the Clintons and Trump: In A Higher Loyalty former FBI director James Comey details his experiences with some of the most important cases in USA history. In his Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of t ...Show more
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader ...Show more
New World, Inc - How England's Merchants Founded America and Launched the British Empire by John Butman; Simon Targett
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world. Full of colourful characters, from risk-taking merchants, aristocratic courtiers, university scientists, clever lawyers, to daring soldiers and adventurers. In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively ins ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Illustrated History of Colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had to be sacrificed to produce a single ounce of dye. Throu ...Show more
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes
$54.99 NZD
Category: History
"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for those other antagonisms, the private battle ...Show more