New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
The Limits of Genius The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds by Katie Spalding
38.00 NZD
Category: History
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realise they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. Take Marie Curie, famous for both dis ...Show more
The Celts - A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
28.00 NZD
Category: History
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, GuardianWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of h ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
25.00 NZD
Category: History
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
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
28.00 NZD
Category: History
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An impressive amalgamation of scholarly research with popular history' The Times'An evocative account of an era of epic riches and ruthlessness' History Revealed'De la Bedoyere has not just an archaeologist's eye for accuracy but also a broadcaster's nose for a colourful story ...Show more
The Path of Peace - Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer 'A noble endeavour' New Statesman 'A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book' Tristan Gooley 'Compelling and well-balanced... valuable and poignant' Times Literary Supplement ***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK*** W ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (HB) by Ian Johnson
65.00 NZD
Category: History
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on ...Show more
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Dexter Ford, Henry Oster
28.00 NZD
Category: History
The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller "I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive." In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage and strength to survive the unimagina ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
40.00 NZD
Category: History
"The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Car ...Show more