The Longest War : The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter Bergen
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the US government's responses.
The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes. In a fierce day-long battle, this small b ...Show more
The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007. Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of i ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
$23.00 NZD
Category: World History
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
$23.00 NZD
Category: World History
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discove ...Show more
The Lost Continent: The BBC's Europe Editor on Europe's Darkest Hour Since World War Two by Gavin Hewitt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared. A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency, an ...Show more
The Lost Executioner by Nic Dunlop
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A real-life detective story, tracking down the man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the killing fields. Between 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two million people were killed. As hea ...Show more
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa by Gus Casely-Hayford
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
For many of us the history of Africa is, at best, vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids, legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) and Zulu warriors. The truth, however, is one of remarkably diverse, creative, culturally rich civilisations. In this book, which accompanies an 8-part BBC series, Gus C ...Show more
The Lost Men : The harrowing story of Shackleton's Ross Sea party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Y ...Show more
The Lost Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous painting in the world, the "Mona Lisa", had vanished. It took twenty-four hours for anyone in the museum to notice. ...Show more