Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - And How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
London hosts a dozen major railway stations, more than any comparable city. King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Marylebone, Paddington, Victoria, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Waterloo, London Bridge, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street--these great termini are the hub of London's transport system and t ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down : A history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
Anna - The Biography by Amy Odell
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob hair ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the ...Show more
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead, genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built, and we are still living under this system today: ...Show more
The Crown in Vogue by Robin Muir, Josephine Ross
$80.00 NZD
Category: History
'Vogue, like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, and to view Her Majesty's life though the record of our pages is truly a document of history.' Edward Enninful, Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a je ...Show more
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List by Sybil Oldfield
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Discover the stories of the heroic individuals singled out for death by the Nazis' plan to invade Britain.
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division. They landed on the beaches of Guadalc ...Show more
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.Paris as it fell to the NazisLondon on the first day of the BlitzBerlin the day Germany invaded PolandMadrid in the Sp ...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
The List : A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year by Amy Siskind
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom The Weekly List. In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump 's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compi ...Show more
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist Staff
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the en ...Show more