Second Hand Military History Books > Military History > Second World War
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.
Stalin's Folly : The Secret History of the German Invasion of Russia by Constantine Pleshakov
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Hitler came very close to winning the Second World War in June 1941. Despite obvious preparations, his invasion of Russia caught the Red Army by surprise and almost destroyed it in the first ten days. The catastrophe has often been laid at Stalin's door but the true story is only emerging now as secret ...Show more
Peter McIntyre - War Artist by Peter McIntyre
$55.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Secondhand. This collection of 44 paintings and more than 75 pencil sketches thus represents the fulfilment both of a dream and a commitment. It is war as one man saw and experienced it- the despair and the tragedy, the felowship and the hope. That it is also the story of a unique chapter in New Zealand ...Show more
Journey of Remembrance by Jamieson, Shirley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Advance information only, full description to be advised.
A Volunteer for the Duration - The Story of a Volunteer Infantryman in the Second World War by Allan A. Jones; Carol Ellis (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
Crete 1941 Eyewitnessed by C. N. Hadjipateras and M. S. Fafalios
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Kriegsmarine - The Illustrated History of the German Navy in WW II by Robert Jackson (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval History
Covering all classes of vessel, and all theatres of war, from the sorties into the Atlantic by the capital ships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the actions of the E-boats in the English Channel and the Mediterranean.
Freyberg's Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II by Noel (Wig) Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Tells of courageous acts by ordinary soldiers in inhuman conditions, moving with Freyberg's Circus from Alamein to Tunisia, North Africa. Illustrated with b&w photos.
Mark Of The Lion: The Story of Capt. Charles Upham V.C. & Bar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Vasily Grossman's masterpiece "Life and Fate" is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. "A Writer at War" is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts ...Show more
Bismarck and Hood : The Battle of the Denmark Strait - a Technical Analysis for a New Perspective by Marco Santarini
$25.00 NZD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Naval History
The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated her wooden decks to explode in one of her magazine ...Show more