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
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo the Magnificent they possessed a diplomat capable of g ...Show more
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair: the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign by David W. Cameron
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Ne ...Show more
Devil Dogs - First in, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A Daily Telegraph History Book of the YearFrom Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were par ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
Diggers, Hatters, Whores : The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand - and it establishes a benchmark for future work on the history of the gold rushes. It's based on sound scholarship and aimed at the wide and growing general readership of those keen to know more about, and to weigh up, the hi ...Show more
Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King by Mike Pitts
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
In 2012, archaeologists found the grave of Richard III. As the astonishing story of the discovery emerged, millions watched around the world: this was a Tutankhamun for our times. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it te ...Show more
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table as a stage on which to ...Show more
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the m ...Show more
Dirty Bertie - An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the m ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their mid ...Show more