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Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world's truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned ...Show more
How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: DEJEAN JOAN | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Thoug ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: near fine
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
2017 War with Russia - An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command by Richard Shirreff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
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Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer ...Show more
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
Jan Compagnie in Japan 1600-1817 by C R Boxer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints | Reading Level: good
The Bridge - A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turk ...Show more
The Reconquest Kings of Portugal - Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier by Stephen Lay
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the pen ...Show more
The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm C Barber
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions, extracted under torture, were brought before royal an ...Show more