The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force, more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decad ...Show more
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives wou ...Show more
The Drovers : Stories Behind the Heroes of Our Stock Routes by Evan McHugh
32.00 NZD
Category: History
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.' From the High Country to the Outback, there are extraordinary stories of the men and women who have travelled across Australia behind mobs of cattle, sheep and horses. These quiet achievers, of every race and creed, forged an Australia ...Show more