The Year of Chaos - Northern Ireland on the Brink of Civil War, 1971-72 by Malachi O'Doherty
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The shocking story of the worst year of violence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, which included Bloody Sunday, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary.
Battles that Changed History by DK
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The true and heroic story of American POWs' daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp.In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp. Their story begins in the dark fore ...Show more
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unl ...Show more
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. T ...Show more
Blood Legacy - Reckoning with a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compen ...Show more
The Greywacke - How a Vicar, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History by Nick Davidson
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet.
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
Heartland Strong by Brown Margaret
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The future of New Zealands rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns are dying. However, the strength of social ties and development of digital technologies, the innovations in rural entrepreneurship and the functioning inform ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more
A Short History of the World in 50 Places by Jacob F. Field
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A Short History of the World in 50 Places provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet's story, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, taking readers from the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where fossil evidence of over two million years of human evolution was uncovered, ...Show more