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A Seventh Man - The Story of a Migrant Worker in Europe by John Berger; Jean Mohr (Photographer)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker--the material circumstances and the inner ...Show more
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Warriors of the Lord - The Military Orders of Christendom by Michael Walsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The great religious orders of Christianity - the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the Jesuits - are well known for their monasteries, their learning and their missions around the world. But in the Middle Ages, to some extent surviving to this day, there was another kind of religious ord ...Show more
Ireland - Land of the Celts by Iain Zacerk
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
For over a thousand years--from before the birth of Christ until the Anglo-Norman invasions of the 12th century--the Celts held sway over the five kingdoms of Ireland. They left an enduing legacy, from the ancient site of Navan Fort to the carved crosses of Monasterboice, and of course The Book of Kells ...Show more
The Conquerors - Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany by Michael R. Beschloss
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Conquerors provides a fascinating insight into the behind-the-scenes negotiations during World War II that led to the emasculation of Germany. As Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led the United States in World War II in Europe, they had to deal with the question of what kind of government should be i ...Show more
Dancing to the Precipice - The Life of Lucie de La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed first ...Show more
Cardinal de Retz - The Anatomy of a Conspirator by J H M Salmon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938 - Political Genocide in the USSR by Vadim Z Rogovin
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including ...Show more
Revolution in Spain by Karl Marx; Frederick Engels
$40.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
Europe Since Versailles - A History in One Hundred Cartoons with a Narrative Text by David Low
$10.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: good
Hitler's Diplomat - The Life and Times of Joachim von Ribbentrop by John Weitz
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Jacobin Republic under Fire - The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution by Paul R. Hanson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1792, when the prospects for popular democracy seemed brightest, to the Terror of 1793-94, when the Committee of Public Safety ruled by fiat and repression. A key m ...Show more