The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel by Rick Stroud
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks two entire divisions were conjured ...Show more
The Philosophy Steamer : Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 'undesirable' intellectuals to be deported in preparation for the creation of the Soviet Union in December of that year. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking around 70 of these eminent men and their families away to what became permanen ...Show more
The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, THE PHOENIX charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men, who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener and virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scient ...Show more
The Phoenix Years : A History of Modern China by Madeleine O'Dea
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
If there is one lesson that can be drawn from our current times it is that the instinct be true to oneself, and to live an authentic life is a universal one, even in the face of autocracy or terrorism. From a young girl agitating for education in Pakistan, to idealistic filmmakers in Iran, from punk poe ...Show more
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Folle ...Show more
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen -- from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt -- this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today -- great history to appeal to readers of Ken Fo ...Show more
The Plimsoll Sensation - The great campaign to save lives at sea by Nicolette Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize-winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, The Sailor's Friend'
The President of Good and Evil : The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
President George W. Bush is the 'President of Good and Evil' - the man who, more than any other United States president in living memory, talks constantly about ethics, about values, about good and evil. This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to ...Show more
The Price of Valour The Triumph and Tragedy of a Gallipoli Hero, Hugo Throssell by John Hamilton
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.When Hugo Throssell joined the 10th Light Horse Regiment in 1914, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, he was emblematic of the young Australian nation at that time: full of youth, vigour, courage and idealism. ...Show more
The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder by Andrew Rose
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Never told before, this is the story of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the true love of his life, and the murder of an Arab playboy. It takes place in maisons de rendevous, luxurious chateaux in the French countryside providing hospitality ...Show more
The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid by Will Bardenwerper
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended when they're asked to guard the most 'high-value detainee' of all, the notorious dictator Saddam Hussein. What the self-dubbed 'Super Twelve' experienc ...Show more