Tiger Moths & Butterflies by P. Norman

$25.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

Tiger Moths and Butterflies: With the Airforce in War and Peace is the fascinating story of a schoolboy and his contemporaries during WWII. In 1942, Peter Norman and his friends were excited at the thought of escaping boyhood and getting into uniform to serve their country in the war. Desperate to take part in the action, they enlisted in the New Zealand Air Force, where unlike the Army, they would not need to wait until turning twenty-one before being sent overseas. In this beautifully written account, the reader is given an insight into the feelings of trepidation of a first solo flight in a Tiger Moth and the thrill of accomplishment. The book covers the period of training, both in New Zealand and in Canada, voyages in US troop ships across the Pacific, the exciting conversion to modern fighter aircraft, the companionship of a squadron and the inevitable loss of friends. Tiger Moths and Butterflies is a fully illustrated book with a wealth of photographs both private and official. It includes operating characteristics of four well-known wartime aircraft and how it felt to fly them. Peter Norman was born in Christchurch in 1924. He was educated at Christ’s College. After the war he returned to New Zealand where he took up a position with Thos Borthwicks and Sons and in 1982 he retired as Managing Director of that company. Norman was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal in 1976. He lives at Drummond Cottage in Greytown and is married with a son and daughter. Tiger Moths and Butterflies is his third book. ...Show more

The Battle of Britain by John Ray

$5.00 NZD

Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.

Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences.

P.O.W.: One Girl's Experience in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp by Gerarda Bossard

$10.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

Gerarda Bossard was in her early teens in 1943 when the Japanese army swarmed through the Dutch East Indies and took her, along with her mother and two sisters, prisoner. For three years she suffered a painful and humiliating existence as a prisoner of war. This is her story.

The Navy's Here

$12.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

War Brides by Fallows Carol

$10.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

Popular journalist and author Carol Fallows recreates the urgency and immediacy of these whirlwind wartime romances u the humour and bittersweet moments of the first meeting, the anxious watching and waiting for news of soldier-sweethearts at the front, and the exciting u and terrifying u journey to a s trange new land. But reaching Australia was just the beginning. As the brides stepped off the cramped transports and into their soldiers' arms, they were also embracing the challenge of carving out a new life, with an unknown and often hostile family, new language, unfamiliar culture, climate and food. Inspired by her own parents' romance, Fallows is passionate about sharing these extraordinary stories before they are lost forever. ...Show more

A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders Remember the Italian Campaign by Megan Hutching

$20.00 NZD

Category: Second World War | Reading Level: Very Good

The New Zealand Division landed in Italy in October 1943 and entered the line at the Sangro River on 14 November. They fought up the east side of Italy, becoming bogged down at Orsogna for two months, from where they were withdrawn in January 1944. They then swapped coasts and moved across the Apennines to the west side of the country where they came to a screeching halt at Cassino. Three hard-fought battles took place here before the New Zealanders could move past and on to Rome and almost as far as Florence. The Division was then transferred across the country again and began the long hard slog over rivers and through river valleys up the east until finally reaching Trieste in May 1945. It was unpleasant fighting and a great contrast to the desert war. Here it was cold and wet and it snowed. But there were also compensations - many of the men got on well with the Italian people, who most greeted them with great enthusiasm. This book tells the story of those who participated in the campaign - infantry (including 28 Maori Battalion), engineers, artillery, a nurse and a Tui (New Zealand women who worked in the New Zealand Club in Egypt and Italy). ...Show more

Men at War

$15.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

D-Day - 24 Hours That Saved the World by Time Magazine Editors

$15.00 NZD

Category: Second World War | Series: Time Ser.

DESCRIPTION: On June 6, 2004, people the world over - especially Americans - will pause toremember the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that forever changed history. D-Day: 24 Hoursthat Saved the World honors the 130,000 heroic American and Allied troops who risked their lives toliberate Europe and end the Nazi occupation. Here are fascinating portraits of the men who designed theinvasion - and the men who fought it: Eisenhower and Churchill, Montgomery and Rommel. Here arethe landing crafts, the medics, the radio operators, the nurses. Here are the memorable photographs,historic reunions, majestic cemeteries, the unforgettable memories of June 6, 1944.Here is D-Day: 24 Hours that Saved the World. ...Show more

Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Alanbrooke and Marshall won the war in the west by Andrew Roberts

$20.00 NZD

Category: Second World War | Reading Level: very good

"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did the western allies first launch assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Rome? Why, if D-Day was intended to be the start of the Allies' great thrust into Germany, did four hundred thousand men land five hundred miles to the south, in southern France, two months later? Why did the Allies not take Berlin, Vienna or Prague, and allow the Iron Curtain to descend where it did?One of the aims of the book is to show the degree to which the answers to these and many other key riddles of the Second World War turned on the personalities and relationships between two political masters - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt - and the military commanders of their armed forces - the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, and the US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall. ...Show more

New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

$120.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs., Wellington., 1956. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. xv + 721pp, photos, maps, charts. Volume of the official history of New Zealand in the second world war. Jacket is chipped and creased

The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire

$125.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

The SS - Alibi of a Nation by Gerald Reitlinger

$20.00 NZD

Category: Second World War