Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel by Ian Black
44.99 NZD
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Category: World History
Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph for the Zionist movement but a catastrophe - 'nakba' in Arabic - for the native Palesti ...Show more
Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker by Paul H. Carlson
49.99 NZD
59.99 (16% off)
Category: World History
In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from her whi ...Show more
Victory at Villiers-Bretonneaux by Peter FitzSimons
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
It?s early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance.On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser?s soldiers can now be ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea by Shiraz Maher
28.00 NZD
Category: World History
'A groundbreaking study ... a masterclass in how to do intellectual history, and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland, New Statesman 'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas will be well-served by Maher's book ... the first of its ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest by Alison Weir
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love, murder, war and betrayal, filled with passion, intrigue and sorrow, peopled by a cast of heroines, villains, stateswomen and lover ...Show more
Iraq: The Cost of War by Sir Jeremy Greenstock
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Tony Blair's decision to back George W. Bush in his attack on Iraq will go down as a defining moment for Britain. First as Ambassador to the UN, and then as Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK's highest authority on the ground, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the tumultuous days leading up to the I ...Show more
How the Wild West Was Won by Bruce Wexler
29.99 NZD
Category: World History
Dusty road shoot outs, roaming buffalo, bar brawls, gold, tragedy, genocide, damsels in distress, and cowboys riding off into the sunset--the taming of the Western frontier is one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of American history. In this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive book, Br ...Show more
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the ...Show more
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18 by Peter Barton
75.00 NZD
Category: World History
The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpub ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to gra ...Show more