Second Hand Military History Books > Military History > Second World War
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 Long Road to Changi by Peter Ewer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. The reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese ...Show more
A HELL OF A LICKING : THE RETREAT FROM BURMA 1941-2 by JAMES LUNT
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Long Way Back to the River Kwai - A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II by Loet Velmans
$10.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman's Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies--now Indonesia--where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of t ...Show more
SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions - Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen SS 1941-45 by Chris Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Third Reich | Series: Spellmount Ser.
This illustrated book provides an in-depth examination of the 350,000 or so foreign volunteers who fought for Hitler and Germany in World War II and it explores the background to their recruitment and also describes on a unit-by-unit basis their structure and combat record.
Ostfront - Hitler's War on Russia, 1941-1945 by Charles Winchester
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: General Military Ser.
The Eastern Front was the decisive theatre of World War 2. On a 1,200-mile front from the Arctic Circle to the Caspian Sea, in baking summer heat and winter temperatures of -40.C, millions of men and women fought the most vital battle of the war. Had the Germans won in the East, a Nazi victory in World ...Show more
Strategy for Defeat - The Luftwaffe 1933 - 1945 by Williamson Murray
$20.00 NZD
$32.00 (37% off)
Category: Second World War
We'll Be Home For Christmas... by Collected by Errol Braithwaite
$18.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Agent Garbo: the Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only ...Show more
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II by Jeremy Harwood
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
The Longest Night by Gavin Mortimer
$10.00 NZD
$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
$20.00 (25% off)
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
$20.00 NZD
$40.00 (50% off)
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