The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
$43.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the 5th century BC an adventurous Ionian Greek, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, journeyed extensively through the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, from Egypt to Asia Minor, collecting tales of the upheavals that had afflicted the region in the earlier part of the century. The fruits of his wanderings ...Show more
The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they di ...Show more
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama by Nigel Cliff
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is the first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land. "The Last Crusade" puts the reader on da Gama's ships in the midst of a perplexing, terrifying, yet exciting new world and in doing s ...Show more
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the marke ...Show more
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled w ...Show more
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
A literary mystery in the tradition of "The Name of the Rose", set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century.
The Last Kings of Shanghai - The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History
In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties.--The Boston Globe Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history.--LA Review of Books An ...Show more
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
$37.00 NZD
Category: History and Politics
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were le ...Show more
The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'By God Delhi is not a city now, it is a desert ... Sometimes I wonder if it was only in my dreams that there was once a city by this name in the dominions of India.'At 4pm on a dark, wet winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap plywood coffin was buried to the eerie sound of silence: no lamentations, ...Show more