National Geographic the Old West by Stephen G. Hyslop
39.99 NZD
90.00 (55% off)
Category: World History
From the first wagon trains to the building of the railroads, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing stories of grit, tragedy, and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, this is the definitive history of a time and place that forever lives in legend. Travel wi ...Show more
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
24.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
13.99 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
Ordinary Men by Christopher R Browning
27.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most of them had never fired a shot at a human being before, yet they killed with little hesitation and eventually went on to slaughter tens of thousands in cold blood. How could this transforma ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
27.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
29.99 NZD
Category: World History
"Hell's Gorge" traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of ...Show more
Rites of Peace : The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
28.99 NZD
Category: World History
Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Con ...Show more
The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
36.99 NZD
Category: World History
A social and cultural investigation of how a modest collection of farming, fishing and shipping communities without shared language, religion or government transformed itself in the 17th century into the formidable empire of the Dutch Republic.
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
It is a major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two. This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi ons ...Show more