The Interesting Bits by Justin Pollard
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull a ...Show more
The Invisible College by Robert Lomas
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1660 a small group of men, led by Sir Robert Moray, met in London with a secret plan to reshape the world. They were members of the 'Invisible College', better known today as the Freemasons Emerging from the horrors of the Civil War, Britain was a society torn apart by political difference, religious ...Show more
The Invisible Cross: One Frontline Officer, Three Years in the Trenches, a Remarkable Untold Story by Andrew Davidson
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Colonel Graham Chaplin, commander of the Cameron Highlanders, wrote letters from the trenches almost daily to the wife he had married just before the war began. Even if he had no time to write, he would at least send a postcard to reassure her he was 'Quite well'. These personal and loving letters give ...Show more
The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railways by Christian Wolmar
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is a fascinating journey through the history of railways. From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hidden stories of railway history- the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. Uncover the co ...Show more
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
During the desperate winter of 1940, as the threat of German invasion hung over England, the British government mounted a massive, secret campaign of propaganda to weaken the isolationist sentiment in America and manipulate the country into entering the war on England's behalf. Under the command of the ...Show more
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent ci ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$70.00 NZD
Category: History and Politics
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The Jewish People by Shmuel Ahituv
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Contributors to this book include Anson F. Rainey, Shmuel Safrai, Haim Beinart, and Evyatar Friesel. This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholar ...Show more
The Judgement of Paris : The Revolutionary Decade that gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors who i ...Show more
The Khyber Pass by Paddy Docherty
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen metres wide, the Pass is the principal route through the great mountain borderlands between India and Central Asia - and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. In this ground-breaking book, Paddy Docherty charts its remarkable story - on ...Show more
The Khyber Pass A History of Empire and Invasion by Paddy Docherty
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
The story of the "Khyber Pass" tells of the rise and fall of empires, beginning with the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius, then legendary conquerors Alexander the Great and much later, the White Huns and Genghis Khan. Docherty's own travels in this true frontier, still largely lawless today, and the ...Show more
The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program by Brandon Webb
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Killing School brings readers inside the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Course-the gruelling three-month training program that produces the world's deadliest snipers. As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Brandon Webb was tasked with revamping the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Sco ...Show more