Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
$49.99 NZD
Category: World History
From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Revol ...Show more
I Know This to Be True - Greta Thunberg on Truth, Courage and Saving Our Planet by Greta Thunberg
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'I Know This to Be True' is a global five-year project founded on original interviews to inspire a new generation of leaders. Truth, wisdom, inspiration and what really matters for the most inspiring leaders of our time.Still a teenager, Greta Thunberg is one of today's most prominent climate change act ...Show more
I Know This to Be True - Guiding Principles of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'I Know This to Be True' is a global five-year project founded on original interviews to inspire a new generation of leaders. Truth, wisdom, inspiration and what really matters for the most inspiring leaders of our time.Revolutionary anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela devoted his life to ensuring libe ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
Into the Forest - A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Reading Level: very good
Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculousl ...Show more
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader by Ranulph Fiennes
$42.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. 'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.' Thanks ...Show more
My Name Is Selma - The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor by Selma van de Perre
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded the small details that made up our lives, the sheer luck that saved some of us and the atrocities that l ...Show more
Shakespeare His Life and Works by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
$55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
A new edition of the comprehensive guide to Shakespeare, exploring his life and works, and his enduring legacy, in a stunning gift format Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance ...Show more
The Ambassador - Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 by Susan Ronald
$39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most pr ...Show more
The Broken House - Growing up under Hitler by Horst Krüger
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kru ger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted ...Show more