The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign i ...Show more
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The story of Britain's glorious maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Before the 1560s, it was said that there was only one Englishman capable of sailing across the Atlantic. Within just ten years, after a maritime revolution, an English ship with an English ...Show more
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
$53.00 NZD
Category: World History
On 10 July 1943, Felix Sparks arrived with the Allied forces in Italy, a captain in the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division - nicknamed the Thunderbirds. Just twenty-five years old, Sparks soon proved a leader of immense fortitude and stamina, participating in four amphibious invasions and lead ...Show more
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable ...Show more
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ide ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.
The London Lover - My Weekend That Lasted Thirty Years by Clancy Sigal
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
An exuberant, careening memoir, a modern day Tom Jones, rich with the sights, sounds and people from a life led to the full in Britain and America in the 1950s, '60s and '70sIf Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in post-war England he might have been Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly cur ...Show more
The Long March by Sun Shuyun
$36.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. This book presents the stories behind the March: the ruthless purges, the terrible toll of hunger and disease, the fate of women on the March, the huge number of desertions, and the futile deaths. It also recounts how many su ...Show more
The Longest War : The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter Bergen
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the US government's responses.
The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes. In a fierce day-long battle, this small b ...Show more
The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007. Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of i ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more