History of the Wars of the French Revolution Vol II. by Edward Baines
$250.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. "Compelling" - Daily Telegraph "Fascinating" - The Spectator The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of Natio ...Show more
Scott of the Antarctic The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott
$30.00 NZD
Category: Antarctica & the Sub-Antarctic
Secondhand. In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Scott kept a detailed journal of his adventures until March 29, 1912, when he and the few re ...Show more
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won 1914-1918 by Saul David
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Military History
Secondhand. Saul David's 100 DAYS TO VICTORY is a totally original, utterly engaging account of the Great War - the first book to tell the story of the 'war to end all wars' through the events of one hundred key days between 1914 and 1918. The history of any war is more than a list of key battles and S ...Show more
The Texas Rangers - Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 by Mike Cox
$18.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. Texas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers.Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas territor ...Show more
Worm in the Bud - The World of Victorian Sexuality by Ronald Pearsall
$17.50 NZD
Category: World History
This classic book on Victorian hypocrisy reveals the other side of Victoria's Britain, and what really went on behind the lace curtains and aspidistras. The author exposes, with surprisingly thorough documentation, the bald facts of sex-life (approved & illicit) among the aristocracy, the middle ...Show more
Explorers of the Nile : The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
$59.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives ...Show more
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Those who knew didn't tell, and almost no o ...Show more
Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire by DAN SNOW
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain’s empire in North America. Military history at its best. Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec -- in 1759 France's c ...Show more
The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 by Andrew D. Lambert
$26.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and America ...Show more
The First Colonists: Hakluyt’s Voyages To North America by A. L. Rowse
$37.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. Second printing. A modern version, with an introduction by A. L. Rowse. Illustrations in colour by John White.
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
$39.99 NZD
Category: World History
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more