The Holocaust: The Origins, Events and Remarkable Tales of Survival (PB) by Philip Steele
16.00 NZD
Category: Military History
During WWII, some six million Jewish men, women and children lost their lives under the Nazis, in one of the darkest events of modern history. This thought-provoking book explains the complex reasons for the Holocaust, explores what life was like in the ghettos and concentration camps, and retells incre ...Show more
Holding on to Home: Stories and Objects of the First World War by Kate Hunter & Kirstie Ross
49.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
The Great War seeped and stormed into every aspect of New Zealanders' lives, from the frontline to the family home. The things that survived - a crumpled theatre ticket, an engraved cigarette case, a knitting pattern, a crucifix made from rifle cartridges u are emotional touchstones that bring this dist ...Show more
First Day of the Somme : the Complete Account of Britain's Worst-Ever Military Disaster by Andrew Macdonald
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The complete account of Britain's worst-ever military disaster. It took several million bullets and roughly an hour to effectively destroy General Sir Douglas Haig's grand plans for the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916. By day's end, 19,240 British soldiers were dead, crumpled khaki bundles scattered ...Show more
The First World War (50 Things You Should Know About) by Jim Eldridge
19.99 NZD
21.99 (9% off)
Category: Military History | Series: 50 Things You Should Know About | Reading Level: From 7
50 Things You Should Know About the First World War is the perfect introduction to a tragic chapter in world history, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. By the time the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918, 65 million men from around the world had joined up to ...Show more
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos; Larry Alexander
28.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand's Heroic Second Division by Christopher Pugsley
70.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
'This is a story worth telling and deserves to be read by all New Zealanders.' --Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae GNZM QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand A Bloody Road Home is the story of 2 New Zealand Division in World War Two. Commanded by the New Zealand-raised and educa ...Show more
Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar by Kenneth Sandford
31.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy ...Show more
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
32.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Martin Middlebrook's The First Day on the Somme is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-i ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
28.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A passionate memoir.?Neil MacGregor'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.? ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific by Bill Lascher
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A captivating true-life romance between two young American reporters who fell in love and embarked on a harrowing journey after the fall of Manila, traveling from island to island with the Japanese in close pursuit. New Year's Eve, 1941. Inside Manila's Bay View Hotel, journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
26.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more