Home - Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
50.00 NZD
Category: History
While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews, Home reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 194 ...Show more
Fantastic Pasts: The Alternate Worlds of New Zealand History by Matthew Wright
35.00 NZD
Category: History
What if Maori had never discovered New Zealand? What if the moa had survived into modern times? What if Sir Francis Drake had reached New Zealand? What if Homo erectus, so-called Java Man, had survived in remote Southland? What if the wording of the Treaty of Waitangi had been very different? What if Ne ...Show more
Tobruk 1941 by Chester Wilmot
30.00 NZD
Category: History
March 1941. The Allied forces have suffered one brutal defeat after another. For Hitler's forces the conquest of Egypt, and the rich oilfields of the Middle East, lie next on the horizon. All that stand in their way are a few Australian brigades defending a town called Tobruk. For eight months the Austr ...Show more
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
32.00 NZD
Category: History
"A Very Short History of the World" is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in recent cent ...Show more
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump, the decline of European monarchies ane empires, the ascent of the first ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips
25.00 NZD
Category: History
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are ...Show more
America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds
35.00 NZD
Category: History
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 17 ...Show more
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more
Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
35.00 NZD
Category: History
"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others ove ...Show more
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
30.00 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: History
As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two ...Show more
West End Chronicles : Three hundred years of glamour and excess in the heart of london by Ed Glinert
28.00 NZD
Category: History
The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. The exploits of these and m ...Show more
Home Run - Escape from Nazi Europe by John Nichol
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Throughout the Second World War, thousands found themselves cut off behind the lines in Nazi occupied Europe - soldiers were left stranded on beaches after the chaotic evacuation of Dunkirk, airmen flying operations against the Germans were blasted out of the sky by flak and fighters. They were alone an ...Show more