History of Britain and Ireland by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text, the History of Britain and Irelandis an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more about the fascinating story of the England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Spanning six distinct periods of British ...Show more
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicolas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
World War II: Infographics tells the story of the great conflict through graphic design. The mass of data available about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become extraordinarily complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way, and to share that analysis with the public. Info ...Show more
The Skripal Files - Putin, Poison and the New Spy War by Mark Urban
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le CarréA Sunday Times Best Book of 2018 Agent. Prisoner. Target.Who is Sergei Skripal? 4 March 2018, Salisbury, England.A man and his daughter are found slumped on a bench, poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok. He was a ...Show more
Hitler's Last Hostages - Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich by Mary M. Lane
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not only by ...Show more
Case White - The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
$54.99 NZD
Category: History
The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht wa ...Show more
Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain by Edoardo Albert; Paul Gething
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Warrior tells the story of forgotten man, a man whose bones were found in an Anglo-Saxon graveyard at Bamburgh castle in Northumberland. It is the story of a violent time when Britain was defining itself in waves of religious fervour, scattered tribal expansion and terrible bloodshed; it is the story of ...Show more
The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Drawing on four years of research around the world, a new biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, from the award-winning author Andrew Lownie.
Unbelievers: an Emotional History of Doubt by Alec Ryrie
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. We think we know the history of faith: how the ratio of Christian believers ...Show more
Law's Strangest Cases - Extraordinary but True Tales from over Five Centuries of Legal History by Peter Seddon
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of law, the doctor with the worst bedside manner of a ...Show more
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the present by Peter Gatrell
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether through war, state policy or a spontaneous personal decision, millions of people have been on the move. Whether trying to escape danger or to find a better life, whether moving from the countryside to th ...Show more
Fight to the Finish - The First World War - Month by Month by Allan Mallinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMES We remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and because they have their own character. Looking at t ...Show more
Rifleman - New edition: A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Victor Gregg
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow 'A classic' Mail on Sunday'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across ...Show more