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1914-1918 by David Stevenson
69.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow. In this major ...Show more
Blood and Guts by Roy Porter (formerly Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London)
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S.
This is a brief history of mankind's battle to stay alive. Each chapter sums up a different battlefield - from surgery to hospitals and to the body itself.
Empire Made Me by Robert A. Bickers
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Shanghai in the wake of World War I was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. This is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photograph albums and letters.
Fateful Choices : Ten decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
69.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought- ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
55.00 NZD
60.00 (8% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly
69.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Following the immense praise for Bayly and Harper's "Forgotten Armies", its authors now tackle with the same verve, controversy and wit the even more contentious issue of how new nations were born from the wreck of Britain's empire in southeast Asia. The almost continual fighting that followed Japan's d ...Show more
German Trauma: Experiences & R by Gitta Sereny
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S.
This text gathers together the best of Gitta Sereny's writing on Germany since the 1940s. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, and how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectvely and in terms of specific instances.
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War by Ian Kershaw
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: very good
Ian Kershaw's powerful new book is a revelatory account of Britain's ambiguous relations with Germany before the Second World War.
Rembrandt\'s Eyes by Simon Schama
72.95 NZD
79.95 (8% off)
Category: Fine Art | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In this biography, Simon Schama combines a mastery of the painter\\\'s life and times with sympathy for Rembrandt\\\'s character as it found both expression and transformation in his art.
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog is a spectacular recreation of three of the greatest and most startling of all human journeys. The Pacific voyages of James Cook explored the ice-bound fringes of the Arctic and Antarctic, sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, dis ...Show more
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