History & Archaeology

Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian main...

In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - research which was to lead to his st...

The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a...

"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death." Th...

From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a lep...

That the Blitz did not bring the UK to its knees is due, in large part, to a vast response by Civil Defence services and the British people themsel...

In Soul of the Samurai respected author and translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of Bushido or Zen warrior teachings according to 17th...

Introducing general readers to New Zealand archaeology, Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World tells the story of the first European encounters with a...

North Korea is a country where everyone is thought to worship a power-crazed dictator, where disputes with neighboring South Korea frequently break...

'King of the Castle' is the story of nineteenth century businessman and politician William Larnach, In New Zealand William Larnach is perhaps best ...

In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history th...

Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to 66 letters - and that included counting the space between each word as one letter - this first in ...

Since the discovery and widespread use of penicillin in the Second World War, which was a major turning point in 20th century combat medicine, ther...

Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it ...

The AMX30 Char de Bataille was the standard French Main Battle Tank during the Cold War era. Initially the French and Germans attempted to develop ...

100 Years of London presents a visual record of London at its best and worst, from the armistice at the end of World War I through to the modern da...