Elizabeth - Renaissance Prince - A Biography by Lisa Hilton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The life of Elizabeth I is a perennially compelling subject, one which each generation of historians must reclaim as their own. The popularity of the Tudors in film, television and fiction has in recent years demonstrated an unwaning enthusiasm for the period and has also given birth to a fresh audience ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Classics Magpie: A Cornucopia of Classical Curiosities, Fascinating Facts and Astonishing Anecdotes from the Ancient World by Jane C. Hood
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Magpie Ser.
Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments and quotable nuggets from a lost world. Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about arc ...Show more
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ...Show more
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we wor ...Show more
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two - Spearhead of Victory by Patrick Bishop
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAir warfare was a terrible novelty ...Show more
A Field Guide to the English Clergy - A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by Fergus Butler-Gallie
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, and has fostered a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. The Reverend Robert Hawker invented the Harvest Festival, but he also excommunicated a cat for mousing on Sundays. Bishop Lance ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi; Alex Perry
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary that they named Rojava. To the medievalists of ISIS, the emergence of a haven of tolerance and democracy on the frontier of their new cal ...Show more
Atlas of a Lost World - Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier G ...Show more
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time: in 1909 three daring expeditions-led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and the dashing Duke of the Abruzzi-simultaneously raced to the top, ...Show more