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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.
SS Armor by Robert Stern
$25.00 NZD
Category: Tanks, artillery, trains, guns and vehicles | Series: Armor Special Ser.
Armor Battles on the Eastern Front 2 by R. Michulec
$25.00 NZD
Category: Tanks, artillery, trains, guns and vehicles
72 pages, 179 photos, 16 color profiles. The Second volume of the "armor Battles on the Eastern Front". Robert Michulec's efforts have been rewarded with his search throughout Eastern European archives and private collections to bring the readers many unique not-before-published wartime photos to fill t ...Show more
Armor At War Series: Panzerkampfwagen II and IV by Tom Cockle
$25.00 NZD
Category: Tanks, artillery, trains, guns and vehicles
Dunkirk to D-Day by Jeff Steel
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
From Dunkirk, Dieppe and to D-Day, Bill Adlam's war experience reads like fiction. Secret missions, commando raids and the Military Medal – this is a rip-roaring true story of action, military prowess and courage.
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War by David M. Guss
$12.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through ten different POW c ...Show more
Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by HAMISH ROSS
$12.00 NZD
$15.00 (20% off)
Category: Biographies and memoirs
The definitive biography of Paddy Mayne, and the true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes. 'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander ...Show more
In Deadly Combat by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Modern War Studies
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theatre from 1941 to 1945, and this memoir of those years recaptures his gruelling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin.
Stalin's Silver by John Beasant
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
On the night of August 28, 1944, three torpedoes from the German submarine U-859 sank the American merchant ship USS John Barry in the Arabian sea off the eastern seaboard of Oman. The holds of the John Barry contained over $300 million in silver bullion. The 7200-ton ship broke into two pieces and sank ...Show more
Hitler's Samurai - The Waffen-SS in Action by Bruce Quarrie
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich
Battle of Britain Experience by Richard Overy
$30.00 NZD
$40.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Treasures and Experiences Series
With the fall of France, Great Britain was Hitler's last remaining stepping-stone to European domination. In July Hitler told his commanders to prepare for the invasion of England. To do this they would have to destroy the RAF - Britain's last line of defence. This book tells the story of that battle. ...Show more
German Paratroopers by Chris McNab
$25.00 NZD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Second World War
The idea of using the newly available transport aircraft of the 1930s to deliver surprise assaults by small bodies of shock-troops was vigorously developed by the German armed forces in the late 1930s as a part of the blitzkrieg concept.