The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane van Iperen
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-affirming true story of female bravery and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz.WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019They knew their survival depended on each o ...Show more
The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz; Michael Calvin
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable fait ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
World War II by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: DK Eyewitness
In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the Second World War. This book tells the story of the second devastating conflict of the 20th century that tore the world apart by - divided by international alliances and growing tensio ...Show more
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav ...Show more
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
$45.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers to the old ones' ...Show more
Ian Fleming's Commandos : The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and s ...Show more
First World War Remembered by Gary Sheffield; Imperial War Museum
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
A look back at one of the seminal, and deadliest, events of the twentieth century: World War I. The savagery of the fighting, the appalling conditions endured by the soldiers, and the sheer scale of the carnage have seared images of World War I into the public memory. This book captures the wide sweep ...Show more
Hell of a Time: An Australian Soldier's Diary of the Great War by Philip Ayton; Elvala Ayton (Editor); Ross McMullin (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The remarkable story of Philip Owen Ayton is published for the first time, a century after the war's end. Working on the Sydney tramways, when the call to join the fight against Germany came Philip was keen for action, and he found himself in the First Field Company Engineers in the First Division of t ...Show more
The Phoenix Land by Miklos Banffy
$24.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
The 1000-year-old kingdom of Hungary, which formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was dismembered by the Allies in 1918. Phoenix-like, the Hungarian people survived the horrors of war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of the brief but terrifying rule of B ...Show more
The Death of Hitler - The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler s Body by Jean-Christophe Brisard; Lana Parshina
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives. After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' ...Show more