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A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail - The Road to Freedom by Virginia Morris; Clive A. Hills
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Series: History Ser.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a decisive factor in the defeat of American forces in the Vietnam War. Interviewing villagers along the Trail, as well as key military and political figures on both sides of the conflict, this work traces the footsteps of the hundreds of thousands who designed, built, used and ...Show more
A History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: A History of the Twentieth Century Ser.
The concise edition of Martin Gilbert's History of the Twentieth Century is the culmination of his magisterial three-volume series, now elegantly woven together into a single text. This definitive narrative history documents significant events across the globe from 1900 through 1999. Gilbert, author of ...Show more
Alamein: War Without Hate by John Bierman
$15.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Series: Penguin History Ser.
A turning point in the Second World War, the battle of El Alamein was the culmination of a military campaign like no other. Fought across desolate arid terrain, the brutal fighting was matched by a camaraderie and respect between enemies as witnessed in no other theatre of war. Combining gritty personal ...Show more
Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 by John N. Summerson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design | Series: The\Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Ser.
The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.
Battle Cry of Freedom the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that ...Show more
British Intelligence in the Second World War - Its Influence on Strategy and Operations Vol. 2 by F. H. Hinsley
$35.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Series: History of the Second World War Ser.
Cicero - On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero; M. T. Griffin (Edited and Translated by); E. M. Atkins (Editor); Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner (Contributions by)
$22.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Ser.
De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but t ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons - Essays in Honour of Greg Dening by Donna Merwick (Editor)
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: University of Melbourne History Monograph Ser.
Dark History of Gin by MIKE RENDELL
$64.99 NZD
Category: Food and Drink | Series: A\Dark History Ser.
A Dark History of Gin looks at the origins and development of a drink which seems to have a universal and timeless appeal. Historian Mike Rendell explores the origins of distilling in the ancient world and considers the how, when, where and why of the 'happy marriage' between distilled spirits and berri ...Show more
HERETICS AND HEROES by Thomas Cahill
$18.50 NZD
Category: World History | Series: The\Hinges of History Ser.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history--this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us throug ...Show more
Harry Hopkins - Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer by June Hopkins; Hopkins June
$22.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: The\Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History
From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Hopkins' life and social work career broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents that led to the Social Security Act of 1935, the bedr ...Show more
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II - New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 - August 1944 by Samuel Eliot Morison
$15.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Series: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Ser.
Recounts the role of the United States in World War II at sea, from encounters in the Atlantic before the country entered the war to the surrender of Japan.