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Escape From the Tower (The Royal Rabbits of London #2 HB) by Santa Montefiore; Simon Sebag Montefiore
22.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: The Royal Rabbits of London
'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on SundayLife is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible - by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet nose and a slice of mad courage!Little Shylo Tawny-Tail is ...Show more
Heroes: History's Greatest Men and Women by Simon Sebag Montefiore
45.00 NZD
Category: History
In Heroes, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents his personal selection of the 101 most heroic figures from the pages of world history. Emperors and queens, soldiers and statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers rub shoulders with composers and poets, scientists and explorers, artists and storyt ...Show more
Jerusalem - The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine ...Show more
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, ...Show more
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: The Moscow Trilogy
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Moscow Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden is doomed to die in the dreaded Kolyma camps until, with the onset of war, he joins a penal battalion made up of murderers and criminals to fight the Nazis. They have been promised their freedom - but in order to earn this they must fi ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser.
'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire a' Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. H ...Show more
Speeches that changed the world by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (introduction)
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
See and hear the 20th century's greatest orators speak the very words that made history - from Winston Churchill and JFK to Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama. This gripping DVD pack provides genuine historical footage of 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th and 21st centuries and is accompanied by ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based on ...Show more
Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar (Ex-library) by Simon Sebag Montefiore
79.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The remarkable untold story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 yearsThere have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime mi ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more