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Enemy at the Gates- out of print by William Craig
24.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classic Military History S.
The Battle For Stalingrad Stalingrad was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Based on 100s of interviews with survivors of the battle, this text presents the story of the bloody battle.
Fatal Impact - An account of a invasion of the South Pacific by Alan Moorehead
19.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: Penguin Classic History S. | Reading Level: good-very good
In this work, Alan Moorehead tells the tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, in which good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation. And ironically it was Cook, the greatest and most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classic Military History S.
Britain suffered 60,000 casualties during The Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. This portrait of war on the front line draws upon official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels, poems, and above all, on the recollections of hundreds of survivors.
The Illustrated Pepys by Samuel Pepys
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classic History S.
In the pages reproduced here, the public events of the 1660s - the politics of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London - are interwoven with a diverting account of Pepys colourful private life.
The Road to Tyburn by Christopher Hibbert
29.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classic History S.
Jack Sheppard, glamorous rebel, daring escapee and idol of the London mob, was one of the most legendary criminals of 18th-century England. When he finally met his end and was hanged in 1724, weeping girls and thronging crowds lined the road to the gallows at Tyburn.
Women in Medieval Life by Margaret Wade Labarge
24.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classic History S.
This study of the feudal societies of France, England, the Low Countries and southern Germany from 1100 to 1500 brings the varied textures of women's daily lives to light, including the social and legal realities, for queens, noblewomen, nuns, mystics, recluses, peasants, prostitutes and felons.
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