Borrowed Time: The story of Britain between the wars by Roy Hattersley
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britai ...Show more
1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
38.99 NZD
Category: History
* A brilliant, colourful narrative history of a pivotal year in European history
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed ...Show more
Great Tales from English History by Robert Lacey
39.99 NZD
44.00 (9% off)
Category: History
From the mysteries of Cheddar Man to revolting peasants, from the ribald rhythms of Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution, from the Battle of the Boyne to The Origin of Species to the discovery of DNA, this omnibus edition of Robert Lacey's GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY takes us on a lively and captivat ...Show more
The Glorious Revolution by Edward Vallance
35.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1688, a group of leading politicians invited the Dutch prince William of Orange over to England to challenge the rule of the catholic James II. When James's army deserted him he fled to France, leaving the throne open to William and Mary. During the following year a series of bills were passed which ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
29.99 NZD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
The Plimsoll Sensation - The great campaign to save lives at sea by Nicolette Jones
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize-winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, The Sailor's Friend'
The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy we ...Show more
The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
32.00 NZD
Category: History
The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights, ...Show more
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
Bloody Foreigners - The story of immigration to britain by robert winder
28.00 NZD
34.99 (19% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From Huguenot weavers fleeing French Catho ...Show more
The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World by Barnaby Rogerson
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West, the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought them. It was, in its way, the first wor ...Show more