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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Master Bridge Ser.
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ...Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The imperial love affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
36.00 NZD
40.00 (10% off)
Category: Non-fiction
Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Catherine called him 'one of the greatest, strangest and wittiest eccentrics' of her epoch - her 'twin soul' and 'tiger'; her 'master' in politics. Their affair was so tumultuous that they n ...Show more
Heroes: History's Greatest Men and Women by Simon Sebag Montefiore
45.00 NZD
Category: History
In Heroes, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents his personal selection of the 101 most heroic figures from the pages of world history. Emperors and queens, soldiers and statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers rub shoulders with composers and poets, scientists and explorers, artists and storyt ...Show more
Jerusalem - The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
60.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine ...Show more
Monsters : History's Most Evil Men and Women by Simon Sebag Montefiore
45.00 NZD
49.99 (9% off)
Category: History
Monsters presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common - they have had a baleful and blood-soaked impact on the annals of world history. From Attila the Hun to Basil the Bulgar Slayer, from Pedro ...Show more
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The Moscow Trilogy
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, ...Show more
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser.
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The Moscow Trilogy
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden is doomed to die in the dreaded Kolyma camps until, with the onset of war, he joins a penal battalion made up of murderers and criminals to fight the Nazis. They have been promised their freedom - but in order to earn this they must fi ...Show more
Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
45.00 NZD
Category: History
From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context. With over a million copies already sold, this revised and u ...Show more
Speeches that changed the world by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (introduction)
40.00 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: History
See and hear the 20th century's greatest orators speak the very words that made history - from Winston Churchill and JFK to Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama. This gripping DVD pack provides genuine historical footage of 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th and 21st centuries and is accompanied by ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based on ...Show more