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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.
Invading Australia : Japan and the battle for Australia 1942 by Peter Stanley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
1942 was a key year in Australia's history. For the first time, it seemed that young White Australia, an outpost of empire clinging to the edge of the world, was about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and brave Militiamen di ...Show more
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 by Antony Beevor
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail whi ...Show more
The Long Road to Changi by Peter Ewer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. The reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese ...Show more
A HELL OF A LICKING : THE RETREAT FROM BURMA 1941-2 by JAMES LUNT
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Singapore: The pregnable fortress by Peter Elphick
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The fall of Singapore in February 1942 was the largest capitulation in British military history, and Winston Churchill's worst disaster. This text aims to present the full story of the fall of the supposedly impregnable fortress, using documentation and interviews with survivors on both sides.
Long Way Back to the River Kwai - A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II by Loet Velmans
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman's Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies--now Indonesia--where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of t ...Show more
SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions - Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen SS 1941-45 by Chris Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Third Reich | Series: Spellmount Ser.
This illustrated book provides an in-depth examination of the 350,000 or so foreign volunteers who fought for Hitler and Germany in World War II and it explores the background to their recruitment and also describes on a unit-by-unit basis their structure and combat record.
Ostfront - Hitler's War on Russia, 1941-1945 by Charles Winchester
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: General Military Ser.
The Eastern Front was the decisive theatre of World War 2. On a 1,200-mile front from the Arctic Circle to the Caspian Sea, in baking summer heat and winter temperatures of -40.C, millions of men and women fought the most vital battle of the war. Had the Germans won in the East, a Nazi victory in World ...Show more
Sealing Their Fate - 22 Days That by DOWNING David
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
It took the Japanese fleet twenty-two days to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the same twenty-two days that witnessed the German assault on Moscow and the Crusader battles in North Africa. The Germans failed to knock the Soviets out; the Japanese succeeded in bringing the Americans in. These twenty-two ...Show more
Strategy for Defeat - The Luftwaffe 1933 - 1945 by Williamson Murray
$20.00 NZD
$32.00 (37% off)
Category: Second World War
We'll Be Home For Christmas... by Collected by Errol Braithwaite
$18.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Agent Garbo: the Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only ...Show more