Dictators by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year. 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR. 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR. 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No d ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...Show more
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch�teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, T ...Show more
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly detailed descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devasting account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death.Roberts Mason's war was supposed to bring the Viet Cong and the North Vietnames ...Show more
Far Out: Encounters With Extremists by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A powerful investigation into the world of extremism and redemption, from TIME journalist and author of Cast Away. What makes an extremist? From obscure cults to revolutionary movements, people have always been seduced by fringe beliefs. And in today's deeply divided world, more people than ever are dra ...Show more
Soviet Image by Peter Radetsky
$112.50 NZD
$125.99 (10% off)
Category: Photography
For the first time, the Russian news agency TASS has opened its complete photographic archives to create an unprecedented and uncensored look at the last 100 years of life in the Soviet Union and the new Russia as seen through Russian eyes. Featuring more than 250 astonishing photographs - many never be ...Show more
Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain by Dilip Sarkar
$74.99 NZD
Category: History
Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. while the technical details of the aircraft and weapons involved are, of course, crucial to our understanding of the events that ...Show more
The Kings and Queens of Britain by Cath Senker
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Who was the first King of England? Did Henry I assassinate his brother? How did 'Bloody Mary' reinstate Roman Catholicism?For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and ext ...Show more
Life in the Trenches (History in Pictures - World War I)
$9.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: History in Pictures
This informative new range brings history to life with a concise text commentary and startling photographs from the greatest conflicts of modern times. Building into an illustrated library of historic events, these titles offer authorative content at an affordable price.