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
Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich by Martyn Housden
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Sources in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a thematically arranged text illustrating popular resisitance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the affect of Nazism on everyday life. The book combines a lucid, synthesized analysis together with a wide selection of integrated source material taken from pamphlets, diaries, recent oral te ...Show more
The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal by Eric Langenbacher
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic management, and popularity inside of Germany resulted in one of the most decisive electoral victories for her conservative parties in postwar Germany-the country ...Show more
Nazism and War by Richard Bessel
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Universal History Ser. | Reading Level: fine
A chilling and powerful account of the rise and fall of the Nazis, emphasising their beliefs in race and war which produced the most terrible killing frenzy in the history of humanity. As this book shows, Nazi ideology was based on two central beliefs: in war and race. Peace was merely a preparatio ...Show more
Berlin : A Modern History by David Clay Large
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
A city of diversity and vigour, Berlin has had to reinvent itself drastically and with startling frequency, from the cold, harsh capital of Prussia to the arrogant "world city" of the German Empire; from the depraved Babylon of the Weimar Republic to the last bastion of Nazism.