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Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Lucia's fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: 'He knows.'London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wo ...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
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an un ...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
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
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Eu ...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
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
Beneath Another Sky by Norman Davies
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and brilliantly complicate our view of the past. 'If you are ...Show more
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexiévich; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - A new translation based on the updated and expanded text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Sovie ...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
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