The Complete History of New Zealand in Less Than Two Hours by Peter Jessup
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Want to know about New Zealand's rich and fascinating history - but you're tight for time? Here's the answer; The Complete History of New Zealand (in less than two hours!). This concise guide is designed to tell you all you need to know about New Zealand's past in the time it takes to watch a movie ...Show more
The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund by Elizabeth Caffin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The New Zealand Literary Fund was a small amount of public money skilfully dispensed over forty years to hundreds of writers and publishers. Unobtrusively but persistently, the fund and the dedicated men and women who allotted its largesse laid the foundations of the literary culture we enjoy today. Fro ...Show more
The Devil's Own War: The First World War Diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart by John Crawford
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Near Fine
Dop October 2008, Auckland 336pp 234mmx153mm cased with jacket Published in conjunction with the Defence Force these diaries are widely regarded as one of the most important personal sources related to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Hart was a much decorated brigadair general and from the time he ...Show more
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
$74.99 NZD
Category: History
The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britai ...Show more
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
From the humble takeaway in the middle of a tiny English village to the embarrassment of riches offered in a big-city Chinatown, Chinese food is everywhere to be found. But the meals on offer merely scratch the surface of a rich and dizzyingly varied culinary tradition, spread across 5,000 years of hist ...Show more
The Enderby Settlement: Britain's Whaling Venture on the Sub Antarctic Auckland Islands by Conon Fraser
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
This book is a history of the British Enderby settlement on the Auckland Islands 1849-52 and its associated whaling venture. Isolation, a stormswept climate, unproductive soil, inexperienced crews, drunkenness and above all an unexpected shortage of whales meant the raw colony ran into trouble and the p ...Show more
The FIRE Economy by Jane Kelsey
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The FIRE economy – finance, insurance and real estate – is now the world’s principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our political, economic and social landscapes. From rising inequality and ballooning household debt to a global financial crisis and fiscal austerity, instability has ...Show more
The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography by Sandy Callister
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
By the time the First World War broke out in 1914, photography had become affordable and popular. Many of the 100,000 New Zealanders who went overseas to fight carried cameras with them, determined to capture their part in the 'great adventure'. And soldiers were not the only ones to take photographs: c ...Show more
The Gatekeepers of Galatas: The Untold Story by Brian Taaffe
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The untold story of ANZACS and Cretans who fought side by side, defending the highly strategic village of Galatas on the island of Crete during World War II. New Zealand Divisional Petrol Company â a bunch of drivers and fitters â fought an epic, almost personal, battle. This isolated, non ...Show more
The Great Divide: the Story of New Zealand & its Treaty by Ian Wishart
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
New Zealand was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there… and they’re still arguing about it! Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate translation? Did the Treaty ever ...Show more
The Great New Zealand Robbery by Scott Bainbridge
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery, but instead it's been almost completely forgotten. In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which even ...Show more
The Great Secret by Jennet Conant
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen an ...Show more