The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
39.99 NZD
44.95 (11% off)
Category: History
Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its most crucial events. First published 2005.
Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did the western allies first launch assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Rome? Why, if ...Show more
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
59.95 NZD
Category: History
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China : The fall and rise of a great power 1850-2008 by Jonathan Fenby
79.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the second half of the 19th century, China appeared as the sick man of Asia, rocked by recurrent revolts and huge natural disasters, ruled by an anachronistic imperial system and humiliated by foreign invasions. Karl Marx saw it as bound to disintegrate, like 'any mummy carefully preserved in a herme ...Show more
Shakespeare and Co. by Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
75.00 NZD
Category: History
The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are often known as the age of Shakespeare. One of the greatest of all English figures, Shakespeare is a dominant force in our imaginations, a yardstick for great poetry and plays, and a quintessential Englishman. Yet, to consider him as an icon is to forget that he w ...Show more
Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly
69.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Following the immense praise for Bayly and Harper's "Forgotten Armies", its authors now tackle with the same verve, controversy and wit the even more contentious issue of how new nations were born from the wreck of Britain's empire in southeast Asia. The almost continual fighting that followed Japan's d ...Show more
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
80.00 NZD
Category: History
This third and final volume in Richard J Evans' masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, against the background of the mobilization of the 'people's community' in the service of a war of conquest, racial subjugation and genocide. Interweaving a b ...Show more
The War of the World - History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the m ...Show more
Fateful Choices : Ten decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
69.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought- ...Show more
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze (Jesus College, Cambridge)
89.95 NZD
Category: History
This chilling, fascinating new book is the first to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's v ...Show more
Rome and Jerusalem by Martin Goodman
69.95 NZD
Category: History
In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 ye ...Show more
Civilization : A new history of the Western World by Roger Osborne
35.00 NZD
Category: History
Ever since the attacks of 11th September western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization.' But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth ...Show more