(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing
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A sensitive and evocative account of the life of a New Zealand World War Two artillery soldier that gives insight into New Zealands rural culture from the pre-depression years, the impact of war on a family through generations, and the magic of companionship in the New Zealand backcountry.
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By: Michio Takeyama
ISBN: 9780804802321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1989
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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A company of Japanese troops are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the tropical jungles of Burma. In the midst of the overwhelming challenges they face, they discover the power of music to make even the toughest situation tolerable.
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By: Whiti Hereaka
ISBN: 9781775503347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about his girlfriend Gemma, who has stopped seeing or texting him. On his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, living through his great-great-grandfather's experiences in the Maori Contingent.
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By: Majella Cullinane
ISBN: 9780947493783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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A HAUNTING, MASTERFUL DEBUT Shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize and the NZ Heritage Book Award
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By: Christopher Worth
ISBN: 9780994133496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Renaissance Publishing
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The Greek nation was overrun by invading German forces in April 1941. This story follows a fictional New Zealand platoon from the commencement of the action on the slopes of Mount Olympus to their narrow escape from the port of Monemvasia on the east coast of the Peloponnese peninsula.
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By: Kate Atkinson
ISBN: 9780552776646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st December 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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A title that relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. It looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect it has, not only on those who live through it, but on the lives of generations to come.
A Jewish Girl in Paris: The heart-breaking and uplifting novel, inspired by an incredible true story
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By: Melanie Levensohn
ISBN: 9781529075731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Inspired by a true story, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris is a dual-narrative historical novel for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A Jewish Girl in Paris: The heart-breaking and uplifting novel, inspired by an incredible true story
(Paperback)
By: Melanie Levensohn
ISBN: 9781529075762
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Inspired by a true story, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris, is a dual narrative historical novel for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
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By: Sebastian Barry
ISBN: 9780571218011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The powerful and moving First World War novel, shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
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By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
ISBN: 9781526615893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Walter Kempowski
ISBN: 9781847087218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Granta Books
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A brilliantly evocative, atmospheric novel about the delusion and indecision of a wealthy family in the last days of the Third Reich as the Russians advance from the east.
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By: Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN: 9780099532811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1995
UK Publication Date: 15th February 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An anti-war story told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War.
(Hardback)
By: Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN: 9781784879716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN: 9781784879808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Anna Funder
ISBN: 9781761343698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: David Donachie
ISBN: 9780749008703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Allison & Busby
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1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are homeward bound, determined to put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But first they must evacuate Toulon where the Republican Army and the threat of the guillotine wreak havoc. Pearce must keep his wits about him in order to survive. Barclay and his wife Emily are sharing the voyage home.
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By: David Gillham
ISBN: 9780241367667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Mary-Anne O'Connor
ISBN: 9781761344435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Peter G. Tsouras
ISBN: 9781510769465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series. The winter of 1863 had rung down a white curtain on the desperate struggle for North America. The United States and Great Britain had fought each other to a bitter draw.
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By: Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9781804944172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241493700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 20th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Heinrich Gerlach
ISBN: 9781786690630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The original version of the classic novel of the epic World War II battle, confiscated by the Russian secret services in 1949, and now rediscovered in the Russian archives.
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By: Joseph Heller
ISBN: 9780099470465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES
Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
Its the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick McLaughlin
ISBN: 9798350901634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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