Shackleton's Whisky - A Spirit of Discovery by Neville Peat
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the cases of Mackinlay's single malt whisky that he left behind. The incredible tale of Antarctica, malt whisky and an epic journey. Sir Ernest Shackleton's world fame is founded on the Endurance expedition of 1914-17, an attempt to c ...Show more
20th Century: A Visual Guide to Events that Shaped the World by Richard Overy
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
History as you've never seen it before - an amazing visual guide to the 20th century. From global wars to the digital revolution, explore the world-changing events of the 20th century decade-by-decade with 20th Century. This is history as you've never seen it before - the events, the people and ...Show more
Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gulag" comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the Iron Curtain. Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they foun ...Show more
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Pax Britannica Vol 2 by Jan Morris
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height o ...Show more
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The lost legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials ...Show more
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottom ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Famed investigative journ ...Show more
Vikings by Neil Oliver
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$69.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional hom ...Show more
At Home With the Soanes by Palmer Susan
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, At Home with the Soanes paints a detailed picture of the social and domestic life at Nos 12 & 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, in the early 19th century - how the buildings were heated, the servants' daily dut ...Show more