A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchmanmasterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of ...Show more
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
"This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us. It's a collection of humanity's very best thoughts on how to approach the challenges and joys of being alive. Along the ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more
A Social History of Western Political Thought by Ellen Meiksins Wood
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the con ...Show more
A Spy Named Orphan - The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades.Christened 'Orphan? by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the ...Show more
A Village in the Third Reich: How ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel
$26.99 NZD
Category: Military history
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the southernmost corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing ...Show more
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: World History
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Aftermaths: - Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific by Angela Wanhalla (ed.); Lyndall Ryan (ed.); Camille Nurka (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
What we choose to remember and what we choose to forget about the violent past tell us something about the society we live in now. Whether we like it or not, we’re part of each other’s story. So how do we talk about the past? —Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley Aftermaths explores the life-changing inte ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military history
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued) by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military history | Reading Level: near fine
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villai ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more