Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion by Andrew Robinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822.Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Rev ...Show more
Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees by Edward Stourton
$38.99 NZD
Category: History
The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns a ...Show more
Cyrus the Great - Epic and Legendary Leaders by Macgregor Macgregor Morris (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$21.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Cyrus the Great created the first Persian Empire in the 500s BCE, and sealed his pre-eminence as one of the greatest founders of empire. He conquered all major civilizations in his region and his influence reached from the Balkans in the West to the Indus river in the East. His brilliant campaigns broug ...Show more
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I by Michael S. Neiberg
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
Looking beyond diplomats and generals, Neiberg shows that neither nationalist passions nor desires for revenge took Europe to war in 1914. Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who suddenly found themselves compelled to participate in a ghastly, protracted orgy of violence they never imagined ...Show more
Danubia by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for NonfictionNow reissued with a fresh cover look, Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Darkest Hour - How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, E ...Show more
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
'She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience ... and ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personality ... Whoop, whoop! If anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-funding.' Hermione Eyre, SpectatorVirginal, chaste, humble ...Show more
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out ...Show more
Dear Dot: A Personal History of Young New Zealanders, 1886-1936 by Keith Douglas Scott
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the story of the newspaper correspondence column Dot's Little Folk and those who wrote to it. Little Folk was the first correspondence column for children in a New Zealand newspaper. It became the largest feature column of any kind in the history of New Zealand journalism, and it gave rise to a ...Show more
Dear Sister: Letters Between 19th Century Sisters (NZ-UK) by Robin Holmes
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Letters between a pioneer Wairarapa family and relatives in rural England, 1856-1883. "Dear Sister" is the remarkable, possibly unique, record of 30 year, nineteenth century correspondence largely between two sisters, Margaret and Jane Bonesall. Both lived in farming districts, but very different ones a ...Show more
Death Of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'Brilliant. A timely reminder of the fragility of democracy and the dangers of extreme nationalism.' Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps 'Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing.' The Times 'In this post-truth, alternative-facts American moment, The Death of De ...Show more