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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 ...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.
Race for the Rhine Bridges, 1940 and 1944-45 by Alexander McKee
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Wartime Experiences - A Collection of Short Stories from Members of the Country Women's Institute by New Zealand Country Women's Institute Staff (Contribution by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Published by NZ Country Women's Institute, 1996.Fine condition. A5 Soft cover, stitched 116 pages. B&W illustrations.
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.
Kippenberger: Dauntless Spirit by Denis McLean
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Reading Level: Very Good
Sir Howard Kippenberger is widely acknowledged as the ideal of a New Zealand citizen-soldier and our foremost soldier-scholar; a country lawyer and provincial intellectual who became a national figure as New Zealanders made the transition from colonials to a forthright nationhood. As a military leader, ...Show more
Love, Sex and War - Changing Values, 1939-45 by John Costello
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The Art of War: New Zealand Artists in the Field 1939-1945 by Jenny Haworth
$85.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Reading Level: Very Good
In the first book of its kind, author Jenny Haworth shows World War II through the eyes of five of New Zealand's commissioned war artists - Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Russell Clark, Allan Barns-Graham and John McIndoe. Stationed to the areas where New Zealand soldiers were fighting in the Mediterrane ...Show more
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 ...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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more