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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 Longest Night by Gavin Mortimer
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$15.00 (33% off)
Category: Second World War
The bloodiest night of the London Blitz. The Blitz is one of the best known events of the Second World War. It affected more British people than any other 'battle': soldier or civilian, man or woman, adult or child - the bombs made no distinction. Over 40,000 people were killed in the German air raids a ...Show more
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-up by Sheldon H. Harris
$15.00 NZD
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Category: Second World War
Professor Harris's book significantly expands our knowledge of a previously hidden and shameful event of World War Two. Through access to documents unavailable to earlier researchers, he details the activities of Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army, a formation dedicated to conducting bacterial warfa ...Show more
Europe At War 1939-1945 : No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
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Category: Second World War
What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? It wasn't D-Day*.What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't Auschwitz.**What European nationality lost the largest number of civilians between 1939-45? It wasn't the French
Battle of Kursk,the: Operation Citadel 1943 by Robin Cross
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Category: Second World War | Series: Penguin Classic Military History S.
308 pages The dramatic story of Hitler?s disastrous gamble on the Eastern front. Citadel, the codename for the German attack on Kursk in 1943, was the last major German offensive to be launched in the East. The greatest clash of armoured forces in history, Kursk was the decisive land battle of the Secon ...Show more
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
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Category: Second World War
From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable ...Show more
Bismarck by David J. Bercuson
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Category: Naval History
Late in the morning of May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral G?nther L?tjens, Captain Ernst Lindemann and 2,206 men of her crew were lost, only 115 survived. What was at stake in the late spring of ...Show more
In Hitler's Bunker by Armin Lehmann
$15.00 NZD
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Category: Second World War
The shocking story of a boy soldier's eyewitness account of the last days inside Hitler's bunker and the Third Reich. During the last months of Hitler
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more
Alamein by Stephen Bungay
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Written for the 60th Anniversary of the battle. For Great Britain there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. There, in October 1942, in a remote part of the desert between Libya and Egypt, at a place named only for the sake of its non ...Show more
Fernleaf Cairo: The Fascinating Story of New Zealanders in Wartime Egypt by Alex Hedley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 17 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country's permanent overseas base during World War Two. By 1945 the c ...Show more