Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The extraordinary true story of how three women - a fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - raced against Hitler's SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraor ...Show more
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
38.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and two ways to stop themThe truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books ...Show more
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Stunning. History at its very best.' James Holland The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Vo ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
13.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
'Strafer' - The Desert General: The Life and Killing of Lieutenant General WHE Gott CB CBE DSO*MC by N. S. Nash
79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the Holocaust, award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Jonathan Freedland uncovers the extraordinary story of the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man who was determined to warn the world--and ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
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
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance agains ...Show more
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. the untold story of Josephine Baker by Damien Lewis
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and exotic dancing, her beauty ...Show more
Anzac Sons: Mateship, Bravery and Sacrifice by Allison Paterson
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
…Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful … Oh I do hope he is t ...Show more