Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World by Mark Urban
32.99 NZD
34.00 (2% off)
Category: History
Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite differe ...Show more
Fusiliers by Mark Urban
59.99 NZD
Category: History
From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. With a wealth of previously unused primary accounts, Mark Urban reveals the inner life of the regiment - and, through it, of ...Show more
Storm and Conquest : The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1809 by Stephen Taylor
39.99 NZD
Category: History
A gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters. By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic ...Show more
White War by Mark R. Thompson
75.00 NZD
Category: History
The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet, a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, waves ...Show more
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
The Khyber Pass A History of Empire and Invasion by Paddy Docherty
29.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the "Khyber Pass" tells of the rise and fall of empires, beginning with the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius, then legendary conquerors Alexander the Great and much later, the White Huns and Genghis Khan. Docherty's own travels in this true frontier, still largely lawless today, and the ...Show more
God's Executioner - Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. The massacre of thousands of soldiers and civilians by the New Model Army at both Drogheda and Wexford in 1649 must rank among the greatest atrocities i ...Show more
The River of Lost Footsteps : A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
36.99 NZD
Category: History
Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has writt ...Show more
Rifles : Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
29.99 NZD
Category: History
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their tar ...Show more
Trickster Travels : In Search of Leo Africanus - A Sixteenth Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davies
27.50 NZD
Category: History
Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones
28.00 NZD
Category: History
"Terry Jones' Barbarians" takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intell ...Show more
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
29.99 NZD
Category: History
In his highly acclaimed bestseller Auschwitz, author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in histo ...Show more