The British Toy Industry by Kenneth Brown
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
Toys have been made in Britain for hundreds of years, but it was in the twentieth century that the British toy industry reached its peak. Names such as Meccano, Chad Valley, Dinky, Scalextric, Bayko and Hornby dominated the trade at home and abroad. This book tells the story of the British toy industry ...Show more
The British at War by Jonathan Bastable
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a collection of stories exploring the less well-trodden byways of Britain's long history of conflicts. From the Romans vs Britons to the war on terror, it uncovers the heroic, tragic and often peculiar facts behind some of the best-known battles in British history.
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless ...Show more
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction.A History of 1111 Years and One Day. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year'Thrillingly colourful and entertain ...Show more
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wante ...Show more
The Burning Time : The story of the Smithfield Martyrs by Rounding Virginia
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 by Andrew D. Lambert
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
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 American frigates at ...Show more
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. by Neil Price
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A new history of the Vikings - told from their own perspective rather than that of their victims. The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway ...Show more
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes ...Show more
The Civil War by Bruce Catton
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: American Heritage Books
Infinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton's "The Civil War" is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume. Introduced by the critically acclaimed Civil War historian James M. McPherson, "The Civil War" vividly traces one of the most moving chapters in Ame ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more