The Whole Nine Yards - The story of an ANZAC P-40 by John King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about an aeroplane, a 1943 Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk flown for several months under difficult conditions in a remote tropical corner of the southwest Pacific. Abandoned at the side of an airstrip after a landing mishap, it lay forgotten for decades until it was retrieved and shipped to New Z ...Show more
A Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946 - 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Division by George E McAvoy
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Real Enigma Heroes by Phil Shanahan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Espionage | Reading Level: very good
The capture of the Enigma codes helped shorten the Second World War by at least a year. Churchill took a special interest in the information that came out of Bletchley Park's Station X and he guarded his contact well so that the Germans would never find out the source.Without the quick actions of three ...Show more
Veterans 1944-2004 by Regis Colin; Francois Simon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: good-very good
Defiance - The true story of the Bielski partisans by Nechama Tec (Professor emerita of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Stamford)
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Er ...Show more
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South C ...Show more
Strange Defeat - A Statement of Evidence Written In 1940 by Marc Bloch
$12.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Chris ...Show more
Between Silk and Cyanide - The story of SOE's code war by Leo Marks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Espionage | Reading Level: near fine