Manhunters - How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy; Javier F. Peña
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The explosive memoir of the two legendary drug enforcement agents responsible for taking down Pablo Escobar and the subject of the hit Netflix series 'Narcos'. Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers in the decades they spent working for the US Drug Enfor ...Show more
Blood on the Rosary by Sue Smethurst; Margaret Harrod
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out.A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart.There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can't be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that unique bond with her twin brot ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian____________________ The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. ...Show more
Stalin's Nose - Across the Face of Europe by Rory MacLean
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Winston the pig fell into Aunt Zita's life when he dropped onto her husband's head and killed him dead. It was a distressing end to a distinguished life of spying for the U.S.S.R. After the funeral Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Inst ...Show more
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: the Life of Mikhail Sholokhov by Brian J. Boeck
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Stalin's Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boe ...Show more
Underground Asia - Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widesp ...Show more
The Spirit of Catholicism by Vivian Boland OP
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The Catholic Church seems to be in serious crisis - disfigured by scandals, divided by theological, cultural and political differences, retreating institutionally in many places, judged irrelevant by a culture that believes it has outgrown this kind of religious faith. Yet the number of practising Catho ...Show more
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was ...Show more
Prince Albert - The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The magnificent and definitive biography of Prince Albert, by one of Britain's best biographers and the author of Victoria: A Life.
The Just: How Six Diplomats Broke the Rules to Save Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken; David McKay (Translator)
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when h ...Show more
A Coup in Turkey - A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land by Jeremy Seal
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation 'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron 'Read this book if you're interested in Turkey. Read it if you're int ...Show more