Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
48.00 NZD
Category: History
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swam in the ...Show more
I Never Knew That About England by Christopher Winn
64.99 NZD
Category: History
This delightful guide to England, organised county by county, is now published in lavishly illustrated format. Alongside the charming black and white drawings of the original edition now sit gorgeous colour photographs of rolling hills, famous monuments and hidden treasures, plus quirky posters from a b ...Show more
Churchill's Wit: The Definitive Collection by Richard M. Langworth
33.00 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
Charismatic, erudite and often controversial Winton Churchill was one of the most inspiring leaders of the twentieth century, and one of its greatest wits.His much-celebrated sense of fun and mischief has led to many of his jokes and ripostes becoming almost as well known as his famous wartime speeches. ...Show more
Their Darkest Hour by Laurence Rees
29.99 NZD
Category: History
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years wrestling with ...Show more
The World at War - The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
44.99 NZD
Category: History
"The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record sinc ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith
30.00 NZD
65.00 (53% off)
Category: History
Following the success of "Forgotten Voices of the Great War", this series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the Imperial War Museum sound archive - one of the most im ...Show more
A Great And Terrible King : Edward I and the Forging of Britain - SIGNED by Marc Morris
65.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, an ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5 - The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J Mazzeo
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Every minute, someone buys an Art Deco-inspired, amber-hued bottle of Chanel No. 5-to the tune of more than half a million bottles a year. Considering that nearly ninety years have passed since No. 5’s creation, this statistic alone makes a compelling case for the perfume’s stature as the world’s most f ...Show more
The Pessimist’s Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem - From 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007 (updated edition 2008) by Stuart Berg Flexner
25.00 NZD
Category: History
14 billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded onto the scene and it's all been downhill from there. Now, for every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been a hundred devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larg ...Show more
One Day The Soldiers Came : Voices of Children in War by Charles London
27.99 NZD
Category: History
Today there are 20 million children around the world who have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. In the 1990s two million children died as a result of war and communal violence. We see their faces on the nightly news or staring at us from the pages of a magazine, but rarely ...Show more
The Zen of Fish - The story of sushi from samurai to supermarket by Trevor Corson
44.99 NZD
Category: History
This book is an in-depth look at the culture of sushi by a Japanese-speaking expert. In the author's own words, "People see sushi chefs working behind the sushi bar and think that's what they do. Customers never see the many hours of prep work that go into getting the sushi bar set up in the first place ...Show more
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski
25.00 NZD
30.00 (16% off)
Category: History
A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years. Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Published ...Show more