The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
Divided Houses (The Hundred Years War volume 3) by Jonathan Sumption
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Hundred Years War
"Divided Houses" is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow i ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
65.00 NZD
Category: History
'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert MacFarlane 'Diarmuid Hester's beautifully written psycho-biography explores obscure corners of places as sites of hidden queer histories ... haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris Kraus At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloi ...Show more
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
45.00 NZD
Category: History
What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the F#65533;hrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for ...Show more
The Edge of the Plain - How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford
37.00 NZD
Category: History
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today
The Palace by Gareth Russell
60.00 NZD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries--and how much has not. On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel--t ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
39.00 NZD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson
50.00 NZD
Category: History
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don't stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and un ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
40.00 NZD
Category: History
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
40.00 NZD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' Daily Telegraph by Islam Issa
60.00 NZD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more