The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable ...Show more
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed i ...Show more
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ide ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.
The London Lover - My Weekend That Lasted Thirty Years by Clancy Sigal
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
An exuberant, careening memoir, a modern day Tom Jones, rich with the sights, sounds and people from a life led to the full in Britain and America in the 1950s, '60s and '70sIf Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in post-war England he might have been Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly cur ...Show more
The Long March by Sun Shuyun
$36.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. This book presents the stories behind the March: the ruthless purges, the terrible toll of hunger and disease, the fate of women on the March, the huge number of desertions, and the futile deaths. It also recounts how many su ...Show more
The Longest War : The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter Bergen
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the US government's responses.
The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes. In a fierce day-long battle, this small b ...Show more
The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007. Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of i ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
$23.00 NZD
Category: World History
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more