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Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an un ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
Bigger Than History - Why Archaeology Matters by Brian Fagan; Nadia Durrani
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contemporary assumptions about gender? How has archaeology been used and misused to support political and nationalist agendas - and how can it help build a more diver ...Show more
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
"Devotion is the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat back racism to become the Navy's first black aviator. Against all expectations, Tom passe ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
From Disaster to Recovery: the Hastings CBD 1931-35 by Michael Fowler
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
No reply from publisher as at October 2008. On the third of Febraury 1931 at 10.47am., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Hawke's Bay. In Hastings at least 93 people lost their lives, with hundreds more injured. In this book Michael Fowler details the destructive impact of the 1931 quake on the Hastings CBD ...Show more
Des Townson: A Sailing Legacy by BRIAN PEET
$80.00 NZD
Category: History
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever g ...Show more
A Brief History of Life on Earth by Clemence Dupont
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of life on earth unfolds in dramatic fashion in this amazing concertina picture book that takes readers from 4.6 billion years ago to the present day. It's difficult to grasp the enormous changes life on Earth has undergone since it first came into existence, but this marvelously illustrat ...Show more
War Since 1900: History, Strategy, Weaponry by Jeremy Black
$34.00 NZD
Category: History
In this wide-ranging survey, a team of top international historians examines the cataclysmic conflicts that have shaped the modern world. Beginning with the Boer War, the expert contributors analyse the horror and drama of two world wars, the civil wars of the 1920s and 1930s, the Cold War, wars of deco ...Show more
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt by James Walvin
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. It is high time that this resistance, in addition to ab ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Cape: a History of the Gordon Family of Clifton by Angus Gordon
$49.00 NZD
Category: History
History of the Gordon Family of Clifton - Cape KidnappersSix generations of Gordon's have lived and worked at Clifton. This book is a personal look at the lives of those at Clifton over the years.
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the worl ...Show more
