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
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
29.99 NZD
Category: History
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more
The Nazis by Laurence Rees
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: History
During the past 16 years, acclaimed author and documentary-maker, Laurence Rees has met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and the Second World War have received enormous praise. Following the success of Rees's bestselling Auschwitz, this substan ...Show more
Rough Crossings : Britain, The Slaves and The American Revolution by Simon Schama
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Britain, the slaves, and the American RevolutionSet against the backdrop of the American Revolution and its aftermath, Rough Crossings is the gripping, astonishing epic of the struggle for freedom by tens of thousands of slaves who believed that their future as free men and women was bound up with stayi ...Show more
The Shroud by Ian Wilson
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all. In 1978 in his international bestseller "The Turin Shroud", Ian ...Show more
Alpha Beta : How the Alphabet Shaped the Western World by John Man
29.99 NZD
34.00 (11% off)
Category: History
The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred only once in human history: in Egypt about 4000 years ago. Alpha Beta follows the emergence of the western a ...Show more
The Gutenberg Revolution by John Man
29.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, G ...Show more
The Terracotta Army by John Man
29.99 NZD
Category: History
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real members of the emperor's ...Show more
The Great Wall by John Man
29.99 NZD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: History
China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-trip. Myths surround it. Many b ...Show more
Kublai Khan by John Man
29.99 NZD
37.00 (18% off)
Category: History
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan, a stately pleasure dome decree. Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in hi ...Show more
Attila The Hun by John Man
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals the man behind the myth. In the years 434-454AD the ...Show more
The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubber
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1177, Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to the Priest-King of the Indies, Prester John. As his emissary he chose his physician, Master Philip. No one knew where the legendary monarch