(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: Christopher Worth
ISBN: 9781067062408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Renaissance Publishing
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World War Two historical fiction depicting the aftermath of the Battle of Crete and the escape of Allied soldiers marooned on the island after the evacuation ends..
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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.
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: 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: 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: Anna Funder
ISBN: 9781761343698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
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: 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: Pam Jenoff
ISBN: 9781405956574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Diane Armstrong
ISBN: 9781867206545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lothar Gunther Buchheim
ISBN: 9780304352319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 1999
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.
(Paperback)
By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Arno Geiger
ISBN: 9781529003178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A poignant, heartbreaking novel depicting the quiet heroism of ordinary people in the face of suffering, and the struggle to live a normal life as the world falls apart around them.
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By: Howard Linskey
ISBN: 9781843449508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
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Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is...
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By: Primo Levi
ISBN: 9780141183909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to 20th-century atrocity. In this novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during World War II.
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By: Sonya Bates
ISBN: 9781460761267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Sven Hassel
ISBN: 9781780228143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Sven Hassel's iconic war novel about the Russian Front, now relaunched with a stunning new look.
(Hardback)
By: Vasily Grossman
ISBN: 9781841594033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2022
Publisher: Everyman
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(Paperback)
By: Vasily Grossman
ISBN: 9781784871963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Offering a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, this book is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and a concentration camp are stunningly evoked, from their darkest to their most poetic moments.
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By: Vasily Grossman
ISBN: 9780099506164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A novel that focuses on overshadowing the lives of a huge cast of Russian and German characters which looms the battle of Stalingrad.
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By: Mary-Anne O'Connor
ISBN: 9781867225454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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