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War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a milita ...Show more
Girl with a Sniper Rifle - An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia. Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$40.00 NZD
Category: 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. The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, ...Show more
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an un ...Show more
Berlin - Biography of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
There is a particular frisson about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness and the unexpected. Through all its life it has been a city of tensions. Its position, on the frontier of Europe, on the 'Mark', where Christianity met paganism, where the Huns met the Slavs, where Europe ...Show more
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. In Daughters of Yalta, Catherine Katz uncov ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People by Michael Wood
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today. China is the oldest li ...Show more
Conspiracy Theories - A Compendium of History's Greatest Mysteries and More Recent Cover-Ups by Jamie King
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Is the food in ...Show more
Shakespearean: Life According to Shakespeare by Robert McCrum
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why It Matters by David Mountain
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Museums are full of pure white Classical sculptures. Over the years, we've ignored evidence that they were originally painted bright colors, 'restoring' sculptures to a gleaming white and becoming heated about the very idea of a lick of paint. Why? Because the stories we tell about our past affect how w ...Show more