Britain's Europe : A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Dazzling ...a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine 'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ...this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one' Literary Review Britain has always had a ...Show more
Travels of Marco Polo (Rev Ed) by Marco Polo
49.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Illustrated Edition Series
Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The ...Show more
Sons and Soldiers: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution by Bruce Henderson
36.99 NZD
Category: World History
The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as "The Ritchie Boys" arrived in America as "enemy aliens," and although they we ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
38.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caus ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
38.00 NZD
Category: World History
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more than three decades, Svetlana Ale ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink ...Show more
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times 'A nail-biting escape story' Financial Times At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in Churchill's life - an adventure involving war in So ...Show more
Les Parisiennes : How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
27.99 NZD
Category: World History
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
Revolution - The History of England: Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
24.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The History of England
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales r ...Show more
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
28.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived? It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how pe ...Show more
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
25.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public c ...Show more