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The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
Green Shades - An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Churchill and Son by Josh Ireland
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Roberts "Beautifully written... A triumph." - Damien Lewis "Fascinating, acute and touching."--Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know ...Show more
Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
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
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
Race of Aces - WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky by John R. Bruning
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
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
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
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
The Whole Picture - The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It by Alice Procter
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Bey ...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
