Until the Last Trumpet Sounds - The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing by Gene Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds ""The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I."" Booklist ""A six-star effort . . . captures Pershing better than anyone has before."" The Grand Rapids Press On The Shattered Dream ""A s ...Show more
Churchill and Hitler in Victory and Defeat by John Strawson
$16.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
A comparative study of two historical figures who shaped the twentieth century.
The Queen - The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'The Queen is an invaluable work of non-fiction' - David Grann, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon. This is the gripping true tale of a villain who changed American history. In the 1970s, Linda Taylor became a fur-wearing, Cadillac-driving symbol of the und ...Show more
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Philip II of Spain--ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known--has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. Thi ...Show more
Elizabeth. The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum by David Starkey
$30.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
With contributions from experts on Tudor history, this catalogue focuses on Elizabeth's court, her relationship with the City of London, the importance of Elizabeth's maritime adventurers, burgeoning maritime enterprise and the beginnings of an overseas empire.
His Life, to His Children by Theodore-Agrippa D'Aubigne; John Nothnagle (Editor, Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg by James MacManus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety -- only to die tragically in early 1945. The autho ...Show more
The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by Robert W. P. Cutler
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder--by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University ...Show more
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'I've given up everything - my friends, my family, my country, & he simply roared with laughter, and then of course so did I' - Nancy Mitford THE HORROR OF LOVE is a story about two people - Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander Gaston Palewski - who conducted a less than ideal love affair in ...Show more
Queen of Bohemia - The Life of Louise Bryant by Mary V. Dearborn
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good