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
First World War by Henry Brook
36.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Usborne Introduction to...
Learn all about the first major conflict of the 20th Century in this thought - provoking and informative new title. This title provides detailed accounts of all the major battles and how the latest innovations such as submarines, tanks, poison gas and barbed wire helped shape the course of the war. It e ...Show more
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia
29.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were ...Show more
The Victors : The men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from and integrates in this one-volume history of the Second World War his five acclaimed books about the conflict. THE VICTORS is woven into a chronological continuing narrative, beginning with the preparation and training of the Allied armies and Eisenhower's decision to cross ...Show more
Napoleon And The Hundred Days by Stephen Coote
34.99 NZD
Category: History
Vienna, 1815: as the political giants of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years, the news arrives that Napoleon has returned to France. Bonaparte - the revolutionary turned emperor and 'disturber of the world's peace' - had been defeated and exiled ...Show more
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
34.99 NZD
36.00 (2% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
During the desperate winter of 1940, as the threat of German invasion hung over England, the British government mounted a massive, secret campaign of propaganda to weaken the isolationist sentiment in America and manipulate the country into entering the war on England's behalf. Under the command of the ...Show more
A Magnificent Catastrophe : The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson
32.99 NZD
Category: History
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "Am ...Show more
A Stranger in the House by Julie Summers
44.99 NZD
Category: History
Over 4 million ex-service men were demobilised between 1945 and 1947. These men, changed by injury or experience, returned to a Britain that had also adjusted in their absence. In A Stranger In The House, Julie Summers talks to the women who were left to cope at home without their menfolk and explains h ...Show more
Diamonds, Gold and War : The Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: History
A full-blooded history of the making of South Africa that covers not only the exploration of the âÂÂDark ContinentâÂÂ, but also the diamond and gold rushes, the two Boer wars and the famous defeats at the hands of the Zulus. First published 2007.
Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
34.99 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: History
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings ...Show more
The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: History
In a horoscope he cast in 1647 for Charles I, William Lilly, a noted English astrologer, made the following judgment: "Luna is with Antares, a violent fixed star, which is said to denote violent death, and Mars is approaching Caput Algol, which is said to denote beheading." Two years later the king's he ...Show more