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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In Chocolate Wars bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early nineteenth century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son, John, to London t ...Show more
Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the SecondWorld War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson; ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynasti ...Show more
Space Race - The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War it is now possible to reveal its generation of secrets and c ...Show more
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.' In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read M ...Show more
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