Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$12.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th-century history. In August 1944, Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation h ...Show more
Tour of Paradise - An American Soldier in the South Pacific by Prue Ahrens (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France by Benjamin Cowburn
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Res ...Show more
The Good German Of Nanking - The diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
Free Lodgings: The true story of a Kiwi soldier's amazing bid for freedom by Peter Winter
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A Man Called Intrepid. The Secret War by William Stevenson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
Italy Volume I The Sangro to Cassino by N. C. Phillips
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
World War Two Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, The Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning producer and writer LAURENCE REES brings us a completely fresh telling of the history of World War II, revealing the ruthless machinations of ultimate power. Drawing on material only available since the opening of the archives in the East, the key decisions of Stalin, Churchill and Rooseve ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$25.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
The Nuremberg Raid - 30-31 March 1944 by Martin Middlebrook
$16.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters and aims of the British bombing leaders and the comp ...Show more