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
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
**Soon to be a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONA SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail'A rollicking read' Max ...Show more
Gallipoli by Pugsley Christopher
49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The definitive account of New Zealand's role in the disastrous 1915 Gallipoli campaign, when a British-led expeditionary force met the Turkish army in an attempt to wrest control of the Dardanelles, comes alive in an updated edition, well illustrated and brilliantly analysed by the doyen of Kiwi militar ...Show more
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeA mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famou ...Show more
Recessional - The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet
57.99 NZD
Category: Politics
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air." The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In Recessional he calls out, ...Show more
What Jacinda Cant Say - The Difficult Truth about Climate Change by David Chapman
20.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
26.99 NZD
Category: World History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicholas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, World War II: Infographics offers a new approach by telling the story of the co ...Show more
Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
42.99 NZD
Category: Military History
An engaging and detailed study of Winston Churchill's career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain's colonial wars, through his battlefield experience in World War I to his strategic command in World War II. This book examines how in high office he got it both right and wrong.Fr ...Show more