The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
25.00 NZD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
SAS Forged in Hell by Damien Lewis
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'W ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
The Sands of Dunkirk by Richard Collier
37.00 NZD
Category: Military
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and James HollandMay 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found th ...Show more
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
28.00 NZD
Category: History
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy. 'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times 'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple Precariously positioned be ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
28.00 NZD
Category: History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
30.00 NZD
Category: History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more
A Woman's World, 1850-1960 by Marina Dan; Amaral Jones
65.00 NZD
Category: Photography
The third volume in Marina Amaral and Dan Jones's bestselling Histories in Colour series. Women's Work explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world from 1850-1960, before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina's colorized images and Dan J ...Show more
The Lost King: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley, Michael Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Previously published as The King's Grave.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SALLY HAWKINS AND STEVE COOGAN.The official inside story of the discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1485, Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victo ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
30.00 NZD
Category: History
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
A Short History of the Tudors by Richard Rex
33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history.Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the ...Show more
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen
37.00 NZD
Category: History
A panoramic portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming our twenty-first century world **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday A panoramic portrait of the wonderous ...Show more