Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Going Dutch : How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine
69.99 NZD
75.00 (6% off)
Category: History
A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between England and the Netherlands during the 17th century, revealing how Dutch tolerance, resilience and commercial acumen effectively conquered England by permanently reshaping the intellectual landscape long before Dutch m ...Show more
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine
29.99 NZD
39.99 (25% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
InGoing Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between EnglandandHolland, two ofEurope's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author ofThe Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England's rise did not ...Show more
Earthly Powers : Religion and politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War by Michael Burleigh
26.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present day's War on Terror. In this dazzling and hugely relevant book, Michael Burleigh explores the way in which religion, broadly construed, functions wi ...Show more
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
29.99 NZD
Category: History
A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral ...Show more
Kristallnacht - Prelude to disaster by Martin Gilbert
5.60 NZD
Category: History | Series: Making History | Reading Level: very good
In KRISTALLNACHT, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the wor ...Show more
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
24.99 NZD
Category: History
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. They came from every corner of Britain and its Empir ...Show more
Waterloo : Napoleon's last gamble by Andrew Roberts
26.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Making History | Reading Level: very good
The Making History Series is launched in paperback with an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world -- Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history. The illustrious Making History Series, edited by Lisa Jardine and Amanda Foreman, explores an eclectic mix of history's tipp ...Show more
The Wreckers - A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst
26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered ShipsA fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposedly so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by ...Show more
Wordsworth and Coleridge - The Friendship by Adam Sisman
28.99 NZD
29.99 (3% off)
Category: History
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent estrangement contribute to a tragic tale. But Sisman's biog ...Show more
God's Secret Agents : Queen Elizabeths's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge
26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This book offers a thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom, in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. T ...Show more
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History Of The Black Death, The Most De vastating Plague Of All Time by John Kelly
29.00 NZD
Category: History
'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and devoured them And believing it to be the end of the world, no one wept for the dead, for all expected to die.'- Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348In just over a thousand days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' travelled across medieval Eur ...Show more