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
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities. Great powers are once again competing for influence. International competition between the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raises new threats of regional confli ...Show more
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities. Great powers are once again competing for geopolitical influence. International competition between the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raises new threats of re ...Show more
The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts - A 2,000-Year History by John Kampfner
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Richis the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money. Starting with Ancient Egypt and Greece and culminating with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it comp ...Show more
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were require ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexande ...Show more
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs; Marrs
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In this explosive new book, the legendary Jim Marrs, author of the underground bestseller Rule by Secrecy, reveals the frighteningly real possibility that today the United States is becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of an ideology thought to have been vanquished more than a half century ago. T ...Show more
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch�teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more
The Road Not Taken - How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926 by Frank McLynn
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with her European neighbours - with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia - is dramatic. All have been convuls ...Show more