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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.
World War II - The Untold Story by Philip Warner
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
This is an assessment of the intelligence and military triumphs and disasters of World War II, drawing on recently opened archives and marking the 50 year anniversary of the beginning of World War II. After a look at the events which caused the outbreak of war in 1939, Warner unfolds the day-to-day stor ...Show more
The Second World War by John Keegan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive metho ...Show more
A Woman's War by Barbara Angell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Second World War
The story of one of Australia's most remarkable women. As a captive of the Japanese during World War II, Wilma Oram, a young nurse, experienced the very worst of human brutality. Following her return to Australia, she was inspired to help her fellow POWs and war veterans through her tireless work wi ...Show more
Under a Bomber's Moon: The True Story of Two Airmen at War Over Germany by Stephen Harris
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily ...Show more
Stalingrad, 1942-1943 - The Infernal Cauldron by Stephen Walsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II by Jeremy Harwood
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
Marching as to War? - The Anglican Church in New Zealand During World War II by Geoffrey M. R. Haworth
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: Second World War
In this, the first study of World War II's impact on the life of a Church in New Zealand, 'Marching as to War?' connects what the Church was saying and doing with what was happening in the society beyond its pews. Author Archdeacon Dr Geoff Haworth has anchored his research in interviews with men and wo ...Show more
Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors by Melvin Jules Bukiet
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called "second generation". This collection of writings considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many concentrations camps ...Show more
Fire In The Night pb by Bierman J
$20.00 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Second World War
Orde Charles Wingate. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius; others considered him greatly over-rated; a few even thought him mad. His overriding passion was for Zionism, a cause which he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Squads, an irre ...Show more
War in Italy 1943-1945 (O/P) by Richard Lamb
$5.00 NZD
$15.00 (66% off)
Category: Second World War
This is a description of the war in Italy from Mussolini's fall until the final victory, by an Italian-speaking officer in the Eighth Army. It draws on captured Mussolini documents and on British, Italian and Vatican Archives.