Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$44.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Ben Harper Ser.
'12 stars' LISA JEWELL'Utterly absorbing' SHARI LAPENA'Unputdownable' KARIN SLAUGHTER'Excellent' LEE CHILD'One of a kind' JAMES PATTERSON'So clever' M.W. CRAVEN'Totally gripping' SUSAN LEWIS'Absolutely addictive' GILLY MACMILLAN'Couldn't see it coming' NELL PATTISONBen Harper's life changed forever the ...Show more
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Katherine Pangonis explores five forgotten cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage. Each of these of these ancient cities has a claim to have been the centre of the world in its own time. Their fascinating entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, the Byzantine g ...Show more
Typhoon by Mike Sutton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Strap in and hold on tight for the first ever first-hand account of the RAF's world-beating Typhoon jet in combat, from the Wing Commander who led them into the war against ISIS. In 2016, the RAF's Typhoon deployed to the Middle East for the first time. Flying a heavily armed, state-of-the-art supersoni ...Show more
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schlogel
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical ...Show more
Under a Bomber's Moon: The True Story of Two Airmen at War Over Germany by Stephen Harris
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily ...Show more
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutioni ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$42.00 NZD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Venice: A Sketchbook Guide by Matthew Rice
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbookMatthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Ven ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more