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Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules by Jeremy Scott
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn't do and would see the world bend before they did. In 1872 a mesmerising psychic named Victoria Woodhu ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable st ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARR Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World Wa ...Show more
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face to ...Show more
Bigger Than History - Why Archaeology Matters by Brian Fagan; Nadia Durrani
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contemporary assumptions about gender? How has archaeology been used and misused to support political and nationalist agendas - and how can it help build a more diver ...Show more
First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder and David Elliot
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James ...Show more
Sea People - The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction 2020. 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the ...Show more
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Winner of the European Book Prize. "A masterpiece of historical journalism ...A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath". (Jan T. Gross). On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish populatio ...Show more
Maoism - A Global History by Julia Lovell
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
