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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.
Explaining Hitler - The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich
In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptical ...Show more
Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich
First-hand account of life with Hitler from 1942 until his death. Traudl Junge shared Hitler's bunker but claimed ignorance of the Holocaust. 'To have such an uncomplicated, unaffected witness present at some of the key defining moments of the 20th century was fortunate for historians. Frau Junge's book ...Show more
D Day Manual by Haynes
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Operations Manual Ser.
The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Technology and innovation played crucial parts in the D-Day drama - from tank-carrying gliders, swimming tanks and the Mulberry harbors, to radio and radar aids that ensured landing cra ...Show more
Skorzeny's Special Missions - The Memoirs of the Most Dangerous Man in Europe by Otto Skorzeny
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
Otto Skorzeny, Germany's top commando in World War II, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure and in this text he tells the full story.
Night After Night: New Zealanders in Bomber Command by Max Lambert
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War
While the fighter aces in their Hurricanes and Spitfires have had their WW2 exploits well celebrated, most of us know much less about the contribution made by thousands of New Zealanders who fought and died in what proved to be one of England's most potent weapons - Bomber Command. In this detailed hist ...Show more
SS Peiper - The Life and Death of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper by Leo Kessler
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Second World War
When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply swapped t ...Show more
Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
$18.00 NZD
$20.00 (10% off)
Category: Second World War
"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others ove ...Show more
Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
$7.00 NZD
$20.00 (65% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Picador Bks.
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more
Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like ...Show more
The Mosquito Log by Alexander McKee
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Aircraft & Air Forces