The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liber ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$38.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued) by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz | Reading Level: near fine
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villai ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propos ...Show more
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
$38.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, St ...Show more
SAS Great Escapes Three by Damien Lewis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Three recounts how warriors of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out five of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the very birth of the SAS, to the post D-day battles ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz | Reading Level: near fine
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$38.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
$37.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - ...Show more
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter by Josef Lewkowicz
$30.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetra ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
Eject! Eject! by John Nichol
$40.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story... From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado, comes a brilliant new book that reveals the astonishing story of an invention that has saved many thousan ...Show more