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Blood and Rage : A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of Sacred Causes and Earthly Powers. The paperback will include new material, covering the elections in Pakistan, the death of Benazir Bhutto and the lasting impact of these event ...Show more
Day of the Assassins - A History of Political Assassination by Michael Burleigh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations - from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy - the phenomenon it ...Show more
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral ...Show more
Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al-Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, Sacred Causes provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious bel ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places - The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath an ...Show more
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