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Secondhand books covering World War 2 (1939-1945). Includes NZ's involvement in World War 2, Eastern Front, the Fall of France, D-Day, the war in Asia and so on.
Yesterday's Drums. Echoes From the Wasteland of War by Tony Vercoe
$20.00 NZD
$25.00 (20% off)
Category: Second World War
Good and bad sides of war experience told by veterans. The Sidi Azeiz story... breakout at Minqar Qaim... the Benghazi nightmare... escape from a POW camp in Italy and sanctuary with Italian civilians... betrayal to the Germans and Stalags in Nazi Germany... the resourcefulness of POWs. Tony Vercoe's st ...Show more
The Hunting of Force Z by Richard Hough
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
Force Z was the name given to the British battlefleet that sailed to Singapore in the autumn of 1941. Churchill himself described it as "the best deterrent" and "the one key weapon" that would prevent the Japanese gaining a foothold in the South Pacific. But behind the impressive name lay a less impress ...Show more
Wings over the Pacific: the Rnzaf in the Pacific War by Alex Horn
$50.00 NZD
$60.00 (16% off)
Category: Aircraft & Air Forces
Surviving Hitler: Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich by Adam Lebor & Roger Boyes
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich
How ordinary German citizens, leading uneventful lives, could adapt so easily to the evils of the Nazi regime remains one of the most important questions of the twentieth century, and up till now no one has found a satisfactory explanation. In Surviving Hitler, Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes argue that the ...Show more
Night Blitz 1940-1941 by Ray John
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
This was the war at home, as experienced in most major British cities and seaports Fully researched and documented Fascinating reading from beginning to end
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Brian Hennessy; Karen McMillan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' Brian HennessyBrian immi ...Show more
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
Shockwave by Stephen Walke
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War
Shockwave grippingly charts the defining event of the 20th century, on its 60th anniversary. The countdown to Hiroshima and its horrific aftermath seen through the eyes of eyewitnesses. In this tense, real-life narrative of events unprecedented interviews with witnesses interweave in a tapestry of voice ...Show more
The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945 by J.C. Masterman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The Bombing of Bath - The German Air Raids of April 1942 by Niall Rothnie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
SS Armor by Robert Stern
$25.00 NZD
Category: Tanks, artillery, trains, guns and vehicles | Series: Armor Special Ser.