History & Archaeology

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...

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

Summary Specs The Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte is widely acknowledged to be on...

'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...

The Great Pyramid Manual takes the technical description and historical interpretation of the last `Great Wonder of the Ancient World' to the next ...

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 ...

* The third and final title in this successful trilogy * It takes an epitaph from each of the last one hundred days of the first world war and desc...

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 ...

This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets a...

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 ...

For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had ...

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...

The Industrial Revolution changed our world in a way that few other periods have done: it changed the landscape with heavy industry, altered a nati...