The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
Le Quesnoy 1918 by Christopher Pugsley
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking through defensive lines and scaling the town walls by ladder, the New Zealanders overwhelmed the defenders, freeing the town after years of German occupation. It w ...Show more
1983 - The World at the Brink by Taylor Downing
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some effort to remind yourself that the Third World War ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
Titanic: The Tragic Story of the Ill-fated Ocean Liner by Rupert Matthews
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
An Incomplete History of World War II by Edwin Kiester
$20.00 NZD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: History
This title takes readers on an eccentric journey through extraordinary, heroic and seminal episodes, from the storming of Beijing by the Japanese in 1937, to Rudolph Hess's 1941 'mission of peace' in Scotland, to Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who almost killed Hitler in 1944.
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