The Judgement of Paris : The Revolutionary Decade that gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors who i ...Show more
The Khyber Pass by Paddy Docherty
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen metres wide, the Pass is the principal route through the great mountain borderlands between India and Central Asia - and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. In this ground-breaking book, Paddy Docherty charts its remarkable story - on ...Show more
The Khyber Pass A History of Empire and Invasion by Paddy Docherty
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
The story of the "Khyber Pass" tells of the rise and fall of empires, beginning with the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius, then legendary conquerors Alexander the Great and much later, the White Huns and Genghis Khan. Docherty's own travels in this true frontier, still largely lawless today, and the ...Show more
The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program by Brandon Webb
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Killing School brings readers inside the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Course-the gruelling three-month training program that produces the world's deadliest snipers. As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Brandon Webb was tasked with revamping the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Sco ...Show more
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffo ...Show more
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Don Jordan & Michael Walsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his mission to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the sca ...Show more
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
$43.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the 5th century BC an adventurous Ionian Greek, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, journeyed extensively through the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, from Egypt to Asia Minor, collecting tales of the upheavals that had afflicted the region in the earlier part of the century. The fruits of his wanderings ...Show more
The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they di ...Show more
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama by Nigel Cliff
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is the first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land. "The Last Crusade" puts the reader on da Gama's ships in the midst of a perplexing, terrifying, yet exciting new world and in doing s ...Show more