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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
$34.00 NZD
Category: History
In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British attempted to force the Dardanelles with battleships ...Show more
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Catherine was married aged 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir to the throne of all the Russias, a feckless teenager with a weakness for drink. Catherine was only able to give him an heir by passing off her lover's son as his own. In 1762, Catherine rode out of St Pe ...Show more
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
$47.99 NZD
Category: History
With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittering figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow; Britain's greatest twentieth-c ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the ...Show more
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste ...Show more
The Romanov's: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
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