Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
Highly original exploration of Jerusalem exploring its history and contemporary voices. In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had 'four quarters' as its maps proclaim. And beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, many of its quarte ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
36.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
26.99 NZD
Category: World History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Barack Obama Selected Speeches (Word Cloud Classics) by Barack Obama
26.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Find inspiration in these selected speeches from the 44th president of the United States. This curated collection of landmark speeches chronicles Barack Obama's presence on the national stage, covers his signature policy initiatives, and addresses major moments in American life and history during his ei ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
The Spoils of War - Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Why Does America Go to War?In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. ...Show more
THE 1619 PROJECT: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
45.00 NZD
Category: World History
A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. T ...Show more
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more