The Discovery of Australia by George Collingridge
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
It's the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, br ...Show more
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
InGoing Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between EnglandandHolland, two ofEurope's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author ofThe Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England's rise did not ...Show more
Captain Cook's Final Voyage. The Journal of Midshipman George Gilbert by Christine Holmes (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Captain James Cook and His Times by Robin Fisher (Editor); Hugh Johnston (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The Double Life of Doctor Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the plot to poison Elizabeth I by Dominic Green
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
"It's wonderfully robust, double-dealing stuff, tricked out from original research and coloured by fascinating period detail" The Times
Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust by Mária M. Kovács
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: A\Woodrow Wilson Press Co-Publication | Reading Level: very good
In this important new historical study, M ria Kov cs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kov cs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition fo ...Show more
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In July 1995, approximately 7000 Muslim men, women and children died at Serbian hands in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. It was the largest mass execution in Europe since the Nazi era; a stunning failure for the United Nations and the Western powers; and the grim watershed that led to Nato ai ...Show more
Endurance and Endeavour - Russian History, 1812-1992 by J. N. Westwood
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World Ser. | Reading Level: good
In Russia, both rulers and ruled have long endeavoured to transform their country, each in their own forcible way. Their efforts never quite seemed to bring the results hoped for, and despite reform and revolution some things have changed very little. This book sets out to relate Russian tradition and c ...Show more
The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 by Richard Grunberger
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
"In chilling detail, this social history brilliantly demonstrates the awesome power of a brutal government to corrode the human spirit."--Wall Street Journal"Invaluable for every student of the Nazi era."--New York Times Book Review The 12-Year Reich, the first comprehensive social study of the Third Re ...Show more