Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet
79.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: From
"Villages of Britain" is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's villages are known for their loveliness, of course, but their role in shaping the nation over the centuries is relatively untold, drowned out by the metropolitan bias ...Show more
The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
59.99 NZD
75.00 (20% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'By God Delhi is not a city now, it is a desert ... Sometimes I wonder if it was only in my dreams that there was once a city by this name in the dominions of India.'At 4pm on a dark, wet winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap plywood coffin was buried to the eerie sound of silence: no lamentations, ...Show more
Casanova's Women : The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers
32.99 NZD
Category: History
Eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, history's most famous seducer, talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant and devastatingly attractive, the compulsive womaniser claimed to like and understand his conquests. But he could also be ruthless, cruel, self ...Show more
The High Road to China: George Bogle, The Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet by Kate Teltscher
32.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1774, British traders longed to open relations with China so they sent a young Scotsman, George Bogle, as an envoy to Tibet. Bogle became smitten by what he saw there, and struck up a remarkable friendship with the Panchen Lama. This gripping book tells the story of their two extraordinary journeys a ...Show more
Setting the Desert on Fire : T.E Lawrence and Britain's secret war in Arabia 1916-18 by James Barr
29.99 NZD
Category: History
The full story behind the desert revolt made famous by T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom and the film Lawrence of Arabia. It is 1916. The Allies are struggling in the Great War. The Ottoman Sultan calls for a pan-Islamic jihad against all non-Muslims except Germans. But Sharif Husein, ruler of th ...Show more
The Berlin Wall : 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The definitive - and very human - account of a divided city and its people from the acclaimed author of DresdenThe appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started ...Show more
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
75.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem
As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, ...Show more
The Lost Men : The harrowing story of Shackleton's Ross Sea party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
29.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Y ...Show more
Queen Emma and the Vikings : The woman who shaped the events of 1066 by Harriet O'Brien
32.99 NZD
34.00 (2% off)
Category: History
The stunning history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England - the remarkable story of Queen Emma and the VikingsEmma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England ...Show more
The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare by David A. Bell
35.00 NZD
Category: History
In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon's was the first 'total' war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian's sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and bri ...Show more
Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
32.99 NZD
Category: History
At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city. At least 25,000 ...Show more
Napoleon : Volume 1 - The Path to Power 1769-1799 by Philip Dwyer
36.99 NZD
Category: History
Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined. He was, however, highly ambitious, and it was this ruthl ...Show more