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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.
The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives? Was her appeal sexual, domestic, political - or did he really love her? This biography of Eva Braun is the first in English for 40 years. Angela Lambert has du ...Show more
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
Cassino: The Hollow Victory - The Battle for Rome, January-June, 1944 by John Ellis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The struggle to capture Monte Cassino, the impregnable heights barring the Allied advance on Rome in 1944, was the longest land battle fought in Western Europe in World War II and among the most costly; in four separate assaults over the course of the grim six-month epic over 105,000 men from the Allied ...Show more
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
Partisan Warfare 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas; Peter Abbott; Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
$22.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
During 1941 the Germans occupied first Greece and the former Yuogslavia, then enormous areas of European Russia. Once the front line troops had moved on the struggle continued as bands of resistance fighters waged war against the occupation forces until their final withdrawal. The term 'partisan' is ass ...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
The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945 by J.C. Masterman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The Soviet Soldier of World War Two by Phillippe Rio
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Eight million Soviet soldiers died on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. However, their history, uniforms and day-to-day plight still remain mostly undocumented. Many misconceptions prevail, most of them stemming from the ferocious Nazi propaganda of the times. In reality, the Soviet soldier prove ...Show more