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The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

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Author: Catherine Hickley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art....
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

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Author: Leland Shanle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonised over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable....
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

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Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

$79.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Leslie Edwards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of...
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains

Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains

$75.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Jonathan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in...
Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East

Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East

$37.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Bob Carruthers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 276 This is the fascinating account of the massive German attack on Soviet Russia and the fierce fighting which took place from...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime

$35.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour

Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Doctor Tom Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 366 No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest...
Siege of Brest 1941

Siege of Brest 1941

$57.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Rostislav Aliev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest Hitler's Operation...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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Author: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 First published in 1958, this first German perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Surrender of Singapore - Three Years of Hell

Surrender of Singapore - Three Years of Hell

$59.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way to countries...
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War

Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War

$59.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler's declaration of war...
Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942

Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942

$75.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Clayton Donnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

$75.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy

A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Ellie Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Carefully and sensitively researched, A Cruel Captivity describes the ordeals of, and lasting impact on, survivors of Japanese captivity. Differing in...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945

Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945

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Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

$32.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland

Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland

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Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland....
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

$17.50 AUD
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

$42.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
One False Move

One False Move

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Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II

The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II

False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II

$39.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World...
Aircrew: The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers

Aircrew: The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Bruce Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi Germany The British and American bomber crews...