Operation Swallow - American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of World War Two.
One Hundred Miracles - Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova; Wendy Holden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was to ...Show more
Those Who Forget by Geraldine Schwarz
$35.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
A memoir of the past and a warning for today: the urgent account of a woman delving into her family's complicity with the Nazis during World War Two.
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
$38.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo- ...Show more
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$26.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
Crucible - The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 by Charles Emmerson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.
Dresden - The Fire and the Darkness by Sinclair McKay
$26.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war al ...Show more
Every Man a Hero - A Memoir ofDd-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War by Ray Lambert; Jim DeFelice
$45.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROmaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day--read the astonishing true story celebrated by Tom Brokaw, CBS This Morning, NPR, and the President. Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old ...Show more
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo - A Remarkable True Story of Courage, Hope and Survival by Alaa Aljaleel; Diana Darke (As told to)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Conflict-Spy-Auschwitz
From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo. "I'll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for huma ...Show more