Unique and Unspoilt: A Year Among the Natural Wonders of Heard Island by Bernadett Hince
$44.95 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
Unique and Unspoilt is based on the journals of John Bchervaise during his 13 months as officer in charge of an Australian scientific base on Heard Island. His journals document the beauty of the isolated island, the tyranny of its harsh climate, and the daily struggle of the handful of menfar from thei ...Show more
Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson by Atholl Anderson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the dev ...Show more
Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands by I C Campbell
$39.95 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by untypical events such as political violence that contradict the peaceful tourist image of sun, sea and smiling faces. Journalists, travellers, business people and the general publi ...Show more
Force Benedict by Eric Carter
$49.99 NZD
Category: World Military History
Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941, Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistanc ...Show more
Keeping the Peace: a Kiwi's Modern Conflict Experience by Greg Allnutt
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: very good
This timely publication has many coloured photographs and its writing gives an interesting insight of what today's modern New Zealand soldier is involved in, in the service of his country in Angola, Bougainville, Kuwait, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Op Mercury, The Fall of Crete 1941 by John Sadler
$79.99 NZD
Category: World Military History
Concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20th May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30th May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, this book contains numerous graphic personal anecdotes by participants, be they G ...Show more
Fighters over the Aegean - Hurricanes over Crete, Spitfires over Kos, Beaufighters over the Aegean by Brian Cull
$65.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
Following the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, at which the Americans refused to back Britain's plan to invade the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean, to be followed by an invasion of the Greek mainland, a weakened British attempt was made with disastrous results. The Americans wished to concentrate ...Show more
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: One Family's Fight Against Italian Fascism
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian by Charles W J Withers (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education)
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian s location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain s imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meri ...Show more
Holocaust: Nazi persecution and the murder of the Jews by Peter Longerich
$57.99 NZD
Category: World War II
A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' po ...Show more
Godless by Paul Ham
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia. They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Da ...Show more
Sacred Britannia: Gods and Rituals in Roman Britain from Caesar to Constantine by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History
Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world--Britain. The expeditions of Julius Caesar and the Claudian invasion of 43 CE, up to the traditional end of Roman Britain in the fifth century ...Show more