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Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$65.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear dis ...Show more
Chernobyl - History of A Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets- a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about th ...Show more
Lost Kingdom: - A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,award-winn ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military history
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a TragedyFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine ...Show more
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
$60.00 NZD
Category: No Category
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled w ...Show more
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled w ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who we ...Show more
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