Anzac Sons: Mateship, Bravery and Sacrifice by Allison Paterson
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
…Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful … Oh I do hope he is t ...Show more
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.' In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read M ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower. The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepoli ...Show more
A Little Book of Language by David Crystal
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why t ...Show more
Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn’t that familiar to us these days…but this enthralling, elemental and literally spine-chilli ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Freezing Order - A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
‘I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tingingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, FREEZING ORDER has a stunning plot ... but with this stunning twist: it is all true' Stephen Fry Following his explo ...Show more
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Profess ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
45.00 NZD
Category: World History
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Stephen P. Kershaw
37.99 NZD
Category: World History
In 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing clash between East and West still has resonances in modern history, and has left us with tales of heroic resistance in the face of seemingly hopeless odds. Kershaw makes use of re ...Show more