The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, code-named 'Big X', who masterminded an ...Show more
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, code-named 'Big X', who masterminded a ...Show more
The Real History of World War II by Alan Axelrod
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Real History Ser.
Acclaimed historian, Alan Axelrod recounts the key events of World War II with unflagging humanity, drama, and straightforward explanations of their significance. Authoritative, non-academic and appealingly designed with illustrations, maps and more, this takes a unique approach which favours gripping s ...Show more
The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age by Andrew Cracknell
$43.00 NZD
Category: World History
In New York City in the late 1950s and the 1960s - the era and location of TV's Mad Men - advertising went through a revolution. In a booming market, a punchy and proud new workforce of younger, multi-ethnic writers and art directors gorged themselves on a vibrant and artistic social scene. In many ways ...Show more
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land - a True Detective Story by Patrick Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
From bestselling author of Fighter Boys, the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold morning in February 1942, with the world plunged in the horrors of World War Two, Avraham Stern hid in an attic in Tel Aviv, a price on his head. He'd been on ...Show more
The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World by David Priestland
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements of the modern world; at the height of its influence over a third of the world's population lived under Communist rule. And yet very few predicted either its bewildering rise or sudden decline, while even close observers were mys ...Show more
The Red Hotel - The Untold Story of Stalin s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
In THE RED HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR, former Daily Telegraph Foreign Editor and Russian expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing th ...Show more
The Red Line: The Gripping Account of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany by John Nicol
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
A gripping account of the disastrous 10,000 bomber raid on Hitler's lair, told for the first and final time. In March 1944 - as part of Bomber Command's 'Battle of Berlin' to decimate Hitler's capital city - the RAF attacked the spiritual home of the Nazi Party - Nuremberg. The raid that began on the ev ...Show more
The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS by Michael Asher
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
On May 4 1980, seven terrorists executed their first hostage in the Iranian Embassy in London. They threatened to kill another hostage every thirty minutes until their demands were met. Minutes later, armed men in black overalls and balaclavas shimmied down the roof on ropes and burst in through windows ...Show more
The Regiment : The Real Story of the SAS by Michael Asher
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
On 4 May 1980, seven terrorists holding twenty-one people captive in the Iranian Embassy in London's Prince's Gate, executed their first hostage. They threatened to kill another hostage every thirty minutes until their demands were met. Minutes later, armed men in black overalls and balaclavas shimmied ...Show more
The Renaissance A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides a wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, seeing the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale. This book guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from art, architecture, and literature, ...Show more
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odds and horrifying repression. Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and women carried out an armed struggle against the Nazis, producing underground anti-fascist ...Show more