The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
65.00 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman’s Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year) comes a magnificent new illustrated work. From prehistoric carvings and ancient Egyptian statues, to medieval spell books and Victorian code-writing, this unique collection ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
40.00 NZD
Category: History
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Delectable ... a ravishing family saga' Sunday Times 'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skil ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
28.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Awarded The Prix Du Jury Des Grands Prix De La Fondation Napoleon 2014 From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty ...Show more
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire. In so doing, they changed the course of history. By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had eclipsed the power of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush and marched into what is now Pakistan, ...Show more
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical ...Show more
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
45.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
32.00 NZD
Category: History
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Coper ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
28.00 NZD
Category: History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
Stalingrad 1942-43 (1) - The German Advance to the Volga by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended to achieve a decisive victory- Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that one army group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to ...Show more