Disraeli- Andre Maurois

A picture of the Victorian age and its greatest Prime Minister.
Softcover,1980,369 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

South With Scott- Admiral Sir Edward R.G.R.Evans K.C.B& D.S.O

A classic account of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition.
Illustrated hardback with dj.
DJ-tatty around edges.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Jerry Potts Paladin Of The Plains- B.D.Fardy

Truly one of the unsung heroes of the old west- a renaissance man of his own time and place- equally at home in the council teepees of the Blackfoot Indians of the whiskey soaked saloons of the white man.
Softcover,1984,144 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $8.00

The Rise And Fall Of The League Of Nations- George Scott

The astounding life cycle of the League from its inception after WWI to its death throes.
Hardback with dj,1973,432 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Long Shadow: Inside Stalin's Family- Rosamund Richardson

Follows four generations of Stalin's wife's family the Alliluyevs.
Illustrated hardback with bdj,1993,308 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Lives Of The Kings And Queens Of England- Ed. by Antonia Fraser

From the Normans to the House Of Windsor.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1977,360 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Children Of England:The Heirs Of King Henry VIII 1547-1558- Alison Weir

When Henry VIII dies in 1547 he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn - Edward, Mary and Elisabeth - to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister Mary Tudor.
Sodtcover,1996,385 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099532675
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors- Gordon Thomas

The Mossad was formed in 1951 to coordinate the intelligence-gathering efforts of the still-young nation of Israel. In the nearly half century since, it has become a force to be reckoned with, boasting an impressive track record of counterterrorist actions and assassinations.
Trade pb,1999,354 pgs.
ISBN- 0333753569
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

MI6:Fifty Years Of Special Operations-Stephen Dorril

A comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, known as MI6. Among other topics, it covers the postwar recruitment of former Nazis; anticommunist campaigns in the Baltic; Operation Stalin; a European terrorist network; and the dealings of Blake, Penkowsky and Philby.
Trade pb,2000,907 pgs.
ISBN- 1857027019
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Oxford Illustrated History Of Ireland- Ed.by R.F.Foster

From pre-christian times to present-day troubles.
Illustrated softcover,1991,382 pgs.
ISBN- 0192852450
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Year 1000- Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger

What life was like at the turn of the first millenium.
Paperback,2000,230 pgs.
ISBN- 0349112789
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Last Emperer- Edward Behr

The life of China's last Manchu emperor- Pu Yi.
Paperback,1987,335 pgs.
ISBN- 0708836518
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Custom Of The Sea- Neil Hanson

A true story of shipwreck,cannibalism and the resulting court case.
Paperback,2000,477 pgs.
ISBN- 0552147605
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

A Walk In The Dark Ages- Frank Delaney

A journey across the Europe of thirteen centuries ago,as it might have been taken by an Irish monk travelling to Byzantium.
Illustrated hardback,1989,247 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Byzantine Empire- Robert Browning

A history from AD500 to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1980,224 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Heroines & Harlots- David Cordingly

Womem At Sea In The Great Age Of Sail.
Softcover,2001,334 pgs.
ISBN- 033048799X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Statesman And The Fanatic- Jasper Ridley

A double-biography of Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More.
Hardback with dj,1982,337 pgs.
ISBN- 009463470X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Nelson:The Essential Hero- Ernle Bradford

One of the most inspiring and perplexing characters in history- a mixture of professionalism,genius,vanity and courage.
Softcover,1999,368 pgs.
ISBN- 1840222026
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

George II- Charles Chenevix Trench

Biography of the last King Of England to lead his troops into battle.
Hardback with dj,1973,328 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Enlightenment- Roy Porter

Britain and the creation of the modern world.
Softcover,2000,727 pgs.
ISBN- 014025028X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

From Dawn To Decadence- Jacques Barzun

1500 To The Present.
500 Years Of Western Cultural Life.
Softcover,2000,877 pgs.
ISBN- 0060928832
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Teuton & Slav- Hermann Schreiber

The Struggle For Central Europe- from the first German settlements in the east to modern times.
Hardback wity dj,1965,392 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Riddle Of The Pacific- John Macmillan Brown

Orig.published 1924.
'A learned work of lost civilisations of the pacific"
Ex-library illustrated softcover,1996,312 pgs.
ISBN- 0932813291
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Fatal passage- Ken McGoogan

The story of Scotsman John Rae,the Artic adventurer who discovered the fate of Franklin.
Softcover,2002,327 pgs.
ISBN- 0553814931
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Oliver Cromwell- Barry Coward

Why and how an obscure middle-aged man,lacking in political and military skills within 13 years became ruler of England,Scotland,Wales and Ireland.
Softcover,1991,204 pgs.
ISBN- 0582553857
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Crimson Book Of Pirates- Peter Newark

A survey charting the course of piracy from the earliest times to modern times.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1978,181 pgs.
ISBN- 90404182
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Greece And Rome At War- Peter Connolly

The military development of Greece And Rome from the 8th BC century to the middle of the 5th century AD.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1981,320 pgs.
ISBN-035606798X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $19.00

A History Of England In The Eighteenth Century- Thomas Babington Macaulay

Hardback in case,London folio Society 1980,318 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Years Of The Pooh-Bah- Dick Scott

A Cook Islands Colonial History.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1991,320 pgs.
ISBN- 0340554894
Condition- C
dj has small tears around edges.

Price: NZ $19.00

The Etruscans- Werner Keller

A journey into history in search of a great lost civilisation.
Hardback with dj,1975,435 pgs.
ISBN- 0224010719
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Eyewitness To History- Rodney Castledon

First-hand accounts of major events by those who saw them- from historical figures to everyday people.
Illustrated paperback,2011,442 pgs.
ISBN- 9781907795619
Condition- B

Price: NZ $8.00

The Story Of The Pacific- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

St Peter's School Cambridge prize for current events 1948,315 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Explorers- Desmond Wilcox

From Columbus to Amundsen.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1975,223 pgs.
ISBN- 0563128763
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Secrets Of The Great Pyramid- Peter Tompkins

Does the great pyramid of Cheops enshrine the secrets of a lost science ?
Illustrated softcover,1973,416 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Roman England- John Burke

400 years of turbulent occupation.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1983,152 pgs.
ISBN- 029778319X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Gladiators And Caesars- ed. by Eckart Kohne

The power of the spectacle in Ancient Rome- 'bread and circuses' were what the Romans demanded of their emporers.
Illustrated softcover,2000,151 pgs.
ISBN- 0714123161
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Cultural History Of Persia

Beautifully illustrated hardback with dj,1984,95 pgs.
ISBN- 0906053706
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Cultural History Of Rome

Beautifully illustrated hardback with dj,1983,95 pgs.
ISBN- 0906053528
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Atlas Of Ancient Archaeology- Jacquetta Hawkes

The patterns of cultures and civilisations down to the beginnings of modern history in the classical world.
Illustrated hardbcak with dj,1974,272 pgs.
SBN- 0434314056
Condition- C

Price: NZ $19.00

The Aztecs- Burland & Forman

Gods And Fate In Ancient Mexico.
Illustrated softcover,1985,128 pgs.
ISBN- 0856139378
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Italy Before Rome- John Reich

A look at early Italian cultures.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1979,151 pgs.
ISBN- 0729000753
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Discovery Of Lost Worlds- ed.by Joseph J.Thorndike,Jr.

The story of men and women who have followed obscure clues to search for man's roots.
Illustrated softcover,1979,352 pgs.
ISBN- 0828103089
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Nathaniel's Nutmeg- Giles Milton

The extraordinary story of nutmeg,the spice trade,the island of Run and a heroic English adventurer.
Softcover,1999,388 pgs.
ISBN- 0340696761
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The English Civil War- Robert Ashton

Conservatism and Revolution 1603-1649.
Hardback with dj,1989,462 pgs.
ISBN- 0297795953
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Hadrian's Wall- James Forde Johnston

The wall built in 122AD to prevent northern tribes from plundering Roman Britain.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1977,205 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Vikings In Britain- H.R.Loyn

An assesment of the short and long term effects of successive Viking invasions and settlements of Britain.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1977,175 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Making Of The Tudor Dynasty- Ralph A Griffiths & Roger S Thomas

An account of the earliest members of the Tudor family before 1485.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1985,209 pgs.
ISBN- 0862992184
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Rise Of The Greeks- Michael Grant

1000- 494 BC in the Greek world.
Hardback with dj,1987,390 pgs.
Condition-B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Classical Greeks- Michael Grant

The golden age of the Greek city-states from 490 to 336 BC.
Hardback with dj,1989,337 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Greeks Romans & Barbarians- Barry Cunliffe

Spheres Of Interaction.
Hardback with dj,1988,243 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

A History Of Earliest Italy- Massimo Pallottino

From the Bronze Age to unification under Rome.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1991,206 pgs.
ISBN- 0415054699
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Claudius- Barbara Levick

A study of the Emporer Claudius.
Hardback with dj,1990,256 pgs.
ISBN- 0713452099
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Ancient Civilisations- ed.by Arthur Cotterell

Illustrated hardback with dj,1980,365 pgs.
ISBN- 0670825956
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

This War Without An Enemy- Richard Ollard

A History Of The English Civil Wars.
Illustrated softcover,1992,224 pgs.
ISBN- 000686189X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

A Distant Mirror- Barbara W.Tuchman

The Calamitous 14th Century.
Softcover,1978,677 pgs.
ISBN- 0345283945
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Portable Greek Historians- Ed.by M.I.Finney

Essential complete passages representing the works of Herodotus,Thucydides,Xenophon,Polybius.
Paperback,1977,501 pgs.
ISBN- 014015065X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $8.00

Courtesans And Fishcakes- James Davidson

Appetites- food,drink and sexual in classical Athens.
Softcover,1998,371 pgs.
ISBN- 0006863434
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Tacitus:The Histories

Roman Empire History.
Hardback ,1989,335 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Porneia- Aline Rousselle

Sexual desire and practice in the ancient world.
Hardback with dj,1988,213 pgs.
ISBN- 0631138374
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Elizabeth I- Jasper Ridley

A great Queen or a great era ?
Hardback with dj,1987,391 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $19.00

Burton- Byron Farwell

Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton,Victorian adventurer and writer.
Hardback with dj,1988,431 pgs.
ISBN- 0670813338
Condition- B

Price: NZ $19.00

A Dictionary Of Chivalry- Grant Uden

Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Hardback with dj,1977,352 pgs.
ISBN- 0722653727

Price: NZ $15.00

England's Thousand Best Churches- Simon Jenkins

Parish churches are England's glory. They enshrine the history of a people-their art, architecture, and faith.
English journalist Simon Jenkins has traveled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches.
Illustrated softcover,2000,822 pgs.
ISBN- 0140297952
Condition- C

Price: NZ $19.00

Gibbon's The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

A one-volume abridgement.
Hardback with dj,1981,924 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Great Tales From English History 1387-1688 - Robert Lacey

The second volume of Robert Lacey's unique story of England opens with the dramatic battle of Agincourt when Henry V's bowmen defeated French armour against the odds, and ends with the 'The Protestant Wind' -- King William and Mary and the Glorious Revolution.
Hardback with dj,2004,271 pgs.
ISBN- 0316727164
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Venice The Greatness And The Fall- John Julian Norwich

A history of Venice from the great renaissance years to the long decline of an overseas empire to a still resplendant city.
Hardback with dj,1981,406 pgs.
ISBN- 0713914092
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Medieval Monasteries Of Great Britain- Lionel Butler & Chris Given-Wilson

A fascinating study of all the main monastic sites still surviving in Great Britain.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1979,416 pgs.
ISBN- 0718116143
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Crusades- Antony Bridge

An illustrated history of the brutal drama that was the crusades.
Hardback with dj,1980,314 pgs.
ISBN- 0246110805
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00