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Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear dis ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go ...Show more
Chernobyl - History of A Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was ...Show more
Chernobyl : History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
$40.00 NZD
'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, Observer The grippin ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
$50.00 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets- a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about th ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservatio ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a TragedyFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine ...Show more
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Profess ...Show more
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled w ...Show more
The Man with the Poison Gun : A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he had singlehandedly tracked down and killed the enemies of the communist regime. His weapon was a specially designed secret: it killed without leaving any trac ...Show more
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special ...Show more