The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies; Simon Pare (Translator)
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wond ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and ...Show more
George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives From the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
The Globe - How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and--yes--the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced ...Show more
The Shores of Bohemia - A Cape Cod Story by John Taylor Williams
$43.00 NZD
Category: History
An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth centuryTheir names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward H ...Show more
Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Korea has a long, riveting history-it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most auth ...Show more
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A dramatic, immersive and thrillingly original account of a defining episode in the English Civil WarIt was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of countless victims of the crossfire, Jessie Childs wea ...Show more