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
Britain in the Middle Ages : An archaeological history by Francis Pryor
28.00 NZD
Category: History
As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages' suggests a time between two other ages: a period when nothing m ...Show more
Italy's Sorrow by James Holland
40.00 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: History
Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance to the stalemate of the Gothic line and a segment of Italian history that has been la ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped ...Show more