Those Who Forget - One Family's Story; a Memoir, a History, a Warning by Geraldine Schwarz; Laura Marris (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich.
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$33.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Sicily '43: The First Assault On Fortress Europe by James Holland
$24.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A major new history of one of World War II's most crucial campaigns-the first Allied attack on European soil-by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44 and a rising star in military history On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion ele ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$24.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cush ...Show more
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
$45.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'There will never be a definitive life of Hitler. The subject is too vast, the man too contradictory and the sources unmanageable. But Volker Ullrich's biography comes as close as we can reaso ...Show more
Operation Swallow - American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: War-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: War-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: War-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: War-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: War-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: War-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: War-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