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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.
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.
Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World War: v. 2: The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict by Peter Calvocoressi
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
In the original 1972 edition of "Total War", the authors demonstrated why World War II happened, and how it was conducted, giving as much stress and space to political, social and moral forces as to ensuing clashes of arms, not forgetting the considerbale part that intelligence reconnaissance played in ...Show more
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing In The Second World War by Deborah Montgomerie
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History
Letter Writing In The Second World War This book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war. It shows movingly and graphically that NZ soldiers were not inarticulate and insensitive 'hard men' but kept their sense of life before and after the w ...Show more
Heroes All by Steve Bond
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
For years, Steve Bond has been interviewing and recording veterans from all sides of the conflict, including air and ground crew. His aim was to transmit their engaging stories faithfully to a wider public. He spoke to British and German, German and Russian, British and Italian, American and German, who ...Show more
Hitler's Early Raiders by Robert McQueen
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: Second World War
Focusing on the so-called 'Phoney War' at the start of World War II, this well-researched account concentrates on incidents when Britain stood alone during those tense and dark early days of hostilities. The book contains graphic accounts of enemy action including two major attacks on elements of the Ho ...Show more
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.
On the Road to Mandalay by Randle Manwaring
$40.00 NZD
$50.00 (20% off)
Category: Second World War
The fascinating book features the life story of Dr Randle Manwaring,focusing particularly on his Regiment's fight to capture Burma towards the end of WW2As one of the founding Officers of the RAF Regiment, the author helped train and set up the Regiment from its inception in 1942. He saw active service ...Show more
Defining Moments: The Attack on Pearl Harbor by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Defining Moments
One of the first volumes in a new series designed to provide authoritative, useful resources on American history, "Defining Moments: The Attack on Pearl Harbor" provides readers with a detailed overview of the events of December 7, 1941. On that pivotal day, the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack ...Show more
Ruins of wara guide to Hong Kong's battlefields and wartime sites by Ko Tim Keung
$30.00 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Second World War
Diary of a Red Devil: By Glider to Arnhem with the 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers by Albert Blockwell
$30.00 NZD
$89.99 (66% off)
Category: Second World War
Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit. Individual accounts are certainly in a minority and those from the lower ranks even more scarcer. Helion and Co Ltd are therefore pleased to announce the publicat ...Show more
Inside Stories by Megan Hutching
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
The Second World War saw one in 200 of the New Zealand population held in captivity by members of the opposing forces. Of these, most were captured early in the campaign, and most -over 7000 individuals -were army personnel. In addition, over 1000 air crew were captured, along with 63 naval servicemen. ...Show more
After Hitler by Michael Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. A ...Show more