Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service by Tom Petch
30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'Awesome!' ANDY McNAB | 'You must read this book' Colonel TIM COLLINS OBE | 'Extraordinary' Sir RANULPH FIENNESForget what you thought you knew. Discover the REAL story of how the SAS was created.From ex-SAS Commander Tom Petch, this is the never-before-told story of how the world's preeminent Special F ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
60.00 NZD
Category: World History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Star Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard by Martyn Lawrence Bullard; Douglas Friedman (Photographer); Cher (Foreword by); Ellen Pompeo (Afterword by)
145.00 NZD
Category: World History
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, the designer to the stars, takes you inside celebrity homes in this new collection of sensational, eclectic interiors, with a foreword by CherMartyn Lawrence Bullard's broad-ranging, sophisticated yet eclectic style is sought the world over and has won him unrivaled acclaim amon ...Show more
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
27.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War o ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...Show more
Killing the Killers - The Secret War Against Terrorists by Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Bill o'Reilly's Killing Ser.
In the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Killing the Killers, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September 11, 2001.As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passe ...Show more
Kings And Queens by Iain Dale
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really know about other monarchs? Yes, we know William the Conqueror beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. We know George III was mad, but what else do we know about his 60 year long reign? We know Henry VIII ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
44.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more