Their Darkest Hour by Laurence Rees
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years wrestling with ...Show more
These Truths - A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$72.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereign ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$34.00 NZD
Category: World History
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, receiv ...Show more
This Will Not Pass - Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future by Jonathan Martin; Alexander Burns
$70.69 NZD
Category: World History
The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in Amer ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life (PB) by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$32.00 NZD
Category: World History
That decade was one of the most momentous in English history- it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries, and the coming of the Protestantism which decisively shaped the future of this country. Cromwell was central to all this, but establi ...Show more
Time Inside the Red Border by Editors of Time Magazine
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
As a unique window on the world, the cover of Time is the most celebrated and coveted showcase in print journalism. People who have had their faces on Time's cover - Presidents and movie stars, corporate titans and sporting legends - consider it one of the highest forms of recognition. To Time's worldwi ...Show more
Time's Monster - History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
$48.00 NZD
Category: World History
'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation ...Show more
Titanic: True Stories of her Passengers, Crew and Legacy by Nicola Pierce
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
This book commemorates the enduring legacy of the world's most famous ship - TITANIC. Her story is one of all those bound together on that fateful voyage. On board were: writers, artists, honeymooners, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, millionaires, children, crew and emigr ...Show more
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the summer of 1914, most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilisation that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of t ...Show more
Too Famous - The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
$37.99 NZD
Category: History and Politics
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valua ...Show more
Touring Edwardian New Zealand by Paul Moon
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Edwardian era (1901-14) was fleeting but significant, perhaps nowhere more so than in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the turn of the twentieth century, many British regarded New Zealand as ‘the Britain of the South Seas’. Tourist promotions created an idealised impression of a country that was partly a c ...Show more