Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
27.00 NZD
Category: History
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
40.00 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: History
This exquisitely illustrated and updated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Includes exclusive audio of Shakespeare's sonnets, read by Sir John ...Show more
GCHQ : The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard Aldrich
29.00 NZD
Category: History
A gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ). GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. Durin ...Show more
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner
30.00 NZD
Category: History
As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich material available in the British Library. J.B. Priestle ...Show more
Fifty Things You Need to Know About British History by Hugh Williams
28.00 NZD
Category: History
India: A History by John Keay
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A new edition of the most authoritative and highly-regarded single-volume history of India. Fully revised to include the most recent research and to cover events from partition to the present day. In 'India: A History' five millennia of the sub-continent's history are interpreted by one of our finest wr ...Show more
Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson (ed.)
50.00 NZD
Category: History
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pi ...Show more
We Were Young and at War: The First-hand Story of Young Lives Lived and Lost in World War Two by Sarah Wallis
54.99 NZD
Category: History
Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war. We Were Young And At War follows the stories of sixteen teenage boys and gir ...Show more
Fifty Things You Need to Know About British History by Hugh Williams
50.00 NZD
Category: History
What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that sele ...Show more
Wild Swans : Three daughters of China by Jung Chang
20.00 NZD
36.00 (44% off)
Category: History
One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, "Wild Swans" is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China's most unsettling and violent times. The publication of "Wild Swans" in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non ...Show more
Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
27.00 NZD
Category: History
A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Ko ...Show more
Rites of Peace : The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Con ...Show more