First Blitz: The Never-Before-Told Story of the German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918 by Neil Hanson
12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The 'First Blitz' firstly tells the story of the first London Blitz - six raids by German bombers in eight nights in 1917. It then focuses on the events of August 1918 and the countdown to the planned incendiary raids on London and Paris.
A Short History of Nearly Everything Illustrated by Bill Bryson
79.99 NZD
94.00 (14% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world of science both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now in this glorious new illustrated edition, everything that has happened from ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
39.99 NZD
65.00 (38% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) by Judy Parkinson
31.99 NZD
Category: History
From civil wars to world wars . . . from the Black Death to the Bard to the Blitz, here is the sweeping saga of the storied history of Britain in bite-sized chunks Was Bloody Mary the same as Mary, Queen of Scots? How many King Henrys were there- and which was which? Who won the Wars of the Roses-and wh ...Show more
Danger UXB: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams by James Owen
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. Cities are blitzed night after night and even after the bombers have turned for home, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of UXBs. Buried underground, their clocks ticking remorselessly, unexploded bombs blocked supply routes, emptied hosp ...Show more
Cold War by Jeremy Isaacs
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from the B ...Show more
Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of ...Show more
Agincourt : The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously defeated by an army led by Henry V. Henry V's stunning victory ...Show more
A Corkscrew is Most Useful by Nicholas Murray
35.00 NZD
Category: History
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agen ...Show more
Endgame 1945 by David Stafford
34.99 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: History
In this remarkable account of the end of the Second World War, David Stafford looks behind the headlines of history and uncovers the stories of those, soldier and civilian alike, who had lived through the war and now must endure the daily horrors and hardships of its aftermath. Endgame 1945 is an unforg ...Show more
Germany: Jekyll and Hyde by Sebastian Haffner
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote this book, Germany : Jekyll and Hyde, in an effort ...Show more