The Portable Sixties Reader by Various
45.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics
In this anthology of more than 100 selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America's most gifted writers, Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ten Days That Shook the World Author: John Reed Covers the October Revolution in Russia 1917, which Reed experienced first-hand, and follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek. Banned by Stalin. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensi ...Show more
The Road to Tyburn by Christopher Hibbert
29.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classic History S.
Jack Sheppard, glamorous rebel, daring escapee and idol of the London mob, was one of the most legendary criminals of 18th-century England. When he finally met his end and was hanged in 1724, weeping girls and thronging crowds lined the road to the gallows at Tyburn.
Anne Frank and Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann Lee
16.99 NZD
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Category: History
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski
25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the r ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
24.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerBasis for the movie LincolnOn May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place ...Show more
Luck of the Devil : The Story of "Operation Valkyrie" by Ian Kershaw
25.00 NZD
Category: History
'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot t ...Show more
Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by Glyn Williams
32.00 NZD
Category: History
For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British merchants. We know now that, while several such passages exist, during the period of the search by sailing vessels they were choked ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
30.00 NZD
Category: History
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as ...Show more
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
31.00 NZD
Category: History
The classic international bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of ...Show more
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
29.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more