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Cesare Borgia - His Life and Times by Sarah Bradford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Accusations of treachery, rape, incest, and murder: almost five centuries have passed since Cesare Borgia's death, and his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. Yet the real man was a mesmerizing figure who inspired Machiavelli's classic The Prince. During the brief space of time when he occupied th ...Show more
Chronicle of Youth - Vera Brittain's Great War Diary 1913-1917 by Vera Brittain
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Vera Brittain¿s bestselling Testament of Youth was based on her own copious diaries which have a much greater intimacy and immediacy than the account written for publication. These are those diaries. They begin in the carefree summer of 1913 with a blossoming romance and earnest discussions about the pu ...Show more
Columbus and The Conquest Of The Impossible by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments. A pre-eminent historian calls into question earlier findings by himself and other scholars. With a new introduction an ...Show more
Garibaldi and the Thousand - May 1860 by George Macaulay Trevelyan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The third volume in the famous trilogy covers Garibaldi's role in the events of June to November 1860, the decisive year in the making of Italy ending with his conquest of Sicily and Naples and his acknowledgement of Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia as king of a united Italy.
Goering by Richard Overy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Overy believes, controversially, that Germany did not plan for Blitzkrieg in 1939 but, rather, for full scale war in the mid-1940¿s requiring the total mobilisation of the military, social and economic forces. And it was Goering who created the vast industrial empire that became the powerhouse o ...Show more
On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers by Kate Marsden
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kate Marsden (1859-1931), the youngest of eight children from a poor family, was a highly committed nurse. She cared for soldiers in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-8, and undertook missionary travels to various countries, but she was especially concerned about the plight of those suffering from leprosy. ...Show more
Seven Million Years - The story of human evolution by Douglas Palmer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A voyage into the deep past to discover how we became human, and how modern science is rewriting our family treeSeven million years ago there were ape-like animals living in the forests and woodlands of Africa who were our ancestors. They were also the ancestors of the chimpanzee. It's still a provocati ...Show more
The Golden Century - Europe 1598-1715 by Maurice Ashley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Although 17th century Europe experienced continuous war and revolution, it was also a time when creativity flourished: Cervantes and Velasquez in Spain, Shakespeare and Milton in London, Rubens in Antwerp, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and Moliere in Paris. The vast changes in art, science and religion ultima ...Show more
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