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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 Fall of Hitler's Third Reich by David Jordan
$15.00 NZD
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Category: Second World War
Offers a compact history of the nazi regime's decline in the final three year of World War II, from the defeat in north Africa by Anglo American forces in 1943 to the fall of Berlin to the Red Army in May 1945.
Sealing Their Fate - 22 Days That by DOWNING David
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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
Battle Of Wits: The Complete S by Budiansky Stephen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in J ...Show more
Bounce the Rhine by Charles Whiting
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: The\Spellmount Siegfried Line Ser.
Bounce the Rhine covers the British army's push for the Rhine and the total allied effort in breaching this last natural defensive feature on the western side of Germany. Told with Charles Whiting's usual panache, the book explains the enormity of the problem of crossing the Rhine and how this was achie ...Show more
Military Errors of World War Two by Kenneth Macksey
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Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Delay, failure, and, ultimately, defeat: those were the results of these 16 crucial mistakes by military and political leaders. From Hitler's postponement of the invasion of Britain, to ineptitude in the Western desert, from errors in the Battle of the Atlantic to the Japanese mistakes in the Pacific, s ...Show more
Kristallnacht - Prelude to disaster by Martin Gilbert
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Category: Third Reich | Series: Making History
In KRISTALLNACHT, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the wor ...Show more
The Sabotage Diaries by Katherine Barnes
$34.99 NZD
Category: Second World War
Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction. The Satotage Diaries tells the WWII story of Allied engineer Tom Barnes, who was parachuted behind enemy lines i ...Show more
Operation Mercury: Battle for Crete, 1941 by Tony Simpson
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Category: Second World War
The Things Our Fathers Saw - The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew Rozell
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock are one ...Show more
The Bruneval Raid: Stealing Hitler's Radar by Millar, George
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
312 pages One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that they knew exactly how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the British had attacked and destroyed the who ...Show more
We'll Eat Again - A Collection of Recipes from the War Years by Marguerite Patten
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Foreword 6; Introduction 7; Important Facts 9; Soups 10; Main Meals 18; Vegetable dishes 38; Puddings 50; Snacks & Supper Dishes 64; Cakes and Baking 76; Preserving 90; Making Do 98; After the War 104; Index 111
The Nazis by Laurence Rees
$15.00 NZD
Category: Third Reich
During the past 16 years, acclaimed author and documentary-maker, Laurence Rees has met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and the Second World War have received enormous praise. Following the success of Rees's bestselling Auschwitz, this substan ...Show more