Rescue Pilot: The Daring Adventures of a New Zealand Search and Rescue Pilot by John Funnell
$40.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz | Reading Level: very good
The daring adventures of a New Zealand search and rescue Pilot. 'Somewhere, up ahead, a person is bleeding, but you have to put that out of your mind. Your job is negotiating with time and space. You have your clock, that person has their own, and in the end, whether the rate at which your clock is clic ...Show more
Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot by Paul Tremelling
$26.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A white-knuckle account of life in the dog-eat-dog arena of fighter combatThis is the story of what it takes to make it in fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless.It's no place for the faint-hearted.Whether landing on a pitching aircraft carrier deck ...Show more
David Stirling - The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer
$30.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
, Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Facing The Mountain: The Forgotten Heroes of the Second World War by Daniel James Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
$25.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$38.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
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
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
$30.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
Victoire - A True Story of Espionage and Resistance in WW2 by Roland Philipps
$24.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
An incredible story of heroism, complicity and survival about a charismatic double-agent who played a major role in World War Two - Agent Victoire.'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing s ...Show more
The Glamour Boys: Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
$25.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been tol ...Show more
How Spies Think - Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand
$26.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 'An invaluable guide to avo ...Show more