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Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert
34.99 NZD
Category: History
Tony Blair may now be perceived as the most pro-American Prime Minister since the war, but his desire to keep close to Washington is as nothing compared to Winston Churchill's love for the Land of the Free. Born to an American mother, Churchill spent his whole life in thrall to the power and potential o ...Show more
Churchill and the Jews by Martin Gilbert
37.99 NZD
Category: History
CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS covers the whole life of this greatest of Britons -- from his youth, when he was shocked by the anti-Semitism displayed during the Dreyfus Affair, to his last meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, when he gave Ben-Gurion an article he had written about Moses. In the intervening y ...Show more
History of the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This history weaves a rich historical narrative of the multifarious and contradictory events of the 20th century, ranging across the bloody events of various wars and more. It aims to make sense of the most destructive, yet most creative, century humanity has ever experienced.
Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
54.00 NZD
60.00 (10% off)
Category: History
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage for most of this century. For two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the nineteenth century, that dream seemed a fantasy, bu ...Show more
Kristallnacht : Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Making History Ser.
One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of the Second World War -- Kristallnacht -- not only for the Jewish population suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response i ...Show more
Kristallnacht - Prelude to disaster by Martin Gilbert
5.60 NZD
Category: History | Series: Making History | Reading Level: very good
In KRISTALLNACHT, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the wor ...Show more
Letters to Auntie Fori:The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith by Martin Gilbert
32.95 NZD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The whole story of Jewish history told in 70 letters, a wonderfully readable overview and introduction to Jewish history and faith - by a bestselling author.Some time ago an elderly Indian friend of Martin Gilbert's, known to him as Auntie Fori, revealed that she was actually Jewish and asked him to rec ...Show more
Somme by Martin Gilbert
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert
32.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the result was carnage. In a total of just over a hundred days of fighting, the death toll reached 310,459. Half the bodies were never ...Show more
The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity by Sir Martin Gilbert
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story, which begins in the lost communities of pre-World War II ce ...Show more
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
69.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Historical Atlases
The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronolog ...Show more
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