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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Junger (1918) For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always be ...Show more
Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis's Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican by Gianluigi Nuzzi
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the Vatican A veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis's strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other, ...Show more
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects: In Association with the Imperial War Museum by John Hughes-Wilson
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects, now reissued in paperback, narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict. From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters ...Show more
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War by Taras Grescoe
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Taras Grescoe spins the true story of a British aristocrat, an American flapper, and a Chinese poet who found themselves trapped in an unlikely love triangle amid the decadence of Jazz Age Shanghai. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centur ...Show more
1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was ...Show more
The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "The Proud Tower, "the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Guns of August, " and "The Zimmerman Telegram" comprise Barbara W. Tuchman s classic histories of the First World War era In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize winning account ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Modern Objects: Middle-Class Stuff (and Nonsense) by Francesca Hornak
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'. Featuring a different iconic object each week, the column explores contemporary middle-class life through the objects we fetishise. Each column is ...Show more
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehr ...Show more
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
$54.00 NZD
Category: History
An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeFinalist for the Lionel Gelber PrizeAn Amazon Best Book of the Month (History)One of the world's leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I ...Show more
Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King by Mike Pitts
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In 2012, archaeologists found the grave of Richard III. As the astonishing story of the discovery emerged, millions watched around the world: this was a Tutankhamun for our times. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it te ...Show more
The Brave Ones East Timor, 1999 - Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more