The Road by Christopher Hadley
27.99 NZD
Category: History
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, ...Show more
Operation Biting 8 Copy Pack by Hastings, Max
319.92 NZD
Category: History
8 x 9780008642174 OPERATION BITING
The End Is Always Near - Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear near Misses by Dan Carlin
27.99 NZD
Category: History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING, 100+ MILLION DOWNLOAD PODCAST HARDCORE HISTORY Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
44.99 NZD
Category: History
Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have been, a truly global culture. In How the World Made ...Show more
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston
39.99 NZD
Category: History
'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' ANTHONY SELDON A riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our contine ...Show more
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson
47.99 NZD
Category: History
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers every ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
Saving Michelangelo's Dome - How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution by Wayne Kalayjian
59.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica--designed by Michelangelo--cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture. 1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed ...Show more
Culture: A New World History by Martin Puchner
32.99 NZD
Category: History
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
39.99 NZD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more