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Written in History: Letters That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisi ...Show more
Burden by Courtney Hargrave
$42.99 NZD
Category: History
A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South.The true events that inspired the film, with a foreword by writer/director Andrew HecklerIn 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotlight when a white s ...Show more
Theatre of the World - The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg; Alison McCullough (Translator)
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
'Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the ...Show more
Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition - A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society by Margaret K. Nydell
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
NEW 6TH EDITION NOW AVAILABLE This Fifth Editon of the highly successful guide to arab society - published in line with the Arab Spring. The perfect introduction to contemporary Arab culture for those who want to understand today's headlines and the complex events playing out on the world stage. From ...Show more
A Brief History of Italy by Jeremy Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience' Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military History Despite the Roman Empir ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. ...Show more
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath an ...Show more
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to da Vinci, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and ...Show more
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Extremely interesting ...a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all ...Show more
Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could spl ...Show more
Big History: Our Incredible Journey, from Big Bang to Now by DK
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
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Kings, Queens and The Sordid In-Between by Stefan Raicu
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
A historical kaleidoscope covering misogyny and all sorts of misconduct and naughtiness in any number of noble circles. This book contains a number of illustrative instances selected from royal families from around the world, all viewed from the mischievous perspective of an ordinary bloke. The tales ar ...Show more