The History of the World in Bite-sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
$23.00 NZD
Category: World History
History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ...until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, passing by the likes of C ...Show more
The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This is an astonishing eyewitness account of the life of Hitler, compiled for one man's eyes only: those of Joseph Stalin. On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on 2 May 1945, Soviet troops captured two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Heinz Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensch ...Show more
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of The Tudors by Dan Jones
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. Dan Jones completes his epic history of medieval En ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail: Illustrated Edition by Michael Baigent
$65.00 NZD
Category: World History
A nineteenth-century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees, which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story â a modern G ...Show more
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Hugely impressive...Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of ...Show more
The Honoured Society: The Secret History of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia by Petra Reski
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
When six maflosi were shot and killed in a quiet German town, the massive reach of Calabria's mafia was brought brutally into focus. In "Mafia", Petra Reski reveals the organized crime network that has Europe in its grip. In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaur ...Show more
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance-from Tilar J. Manzeo, the New York Times bestse ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A passionate memoir.?Neil MacGregor'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.? ...Show more
The House of Wisdom: How Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Augustine had decreed that belief not reason should be the guiding light of Christian thinking, and partially as a result its people lived in a world of ...Show more
The Human Past by Christopher Scarre
$117.00 NZD
Category: World History
In The Human Past, a team of leading archaeologists, all well-known specialists in their fields, provides a seamless yet uniquely authoritative account of human prehistory on a global scale. It highlights the enormous diversity of human experience and the ways in which archaeologists are able to learn a ...Show more
The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any peopl ...Show more