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Dunkirk (Duty Calls #1) by James Holland
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Duty Calls
'You wanted to see some action - well you're going to get it now. You're going to get it now all right'. It's Friday 24th May, 1940. Private Johnny Hawke, aged sixteen, awakens to artillery fire. Hours later, Stukas scream down from the sky. Messerschmit fighters roar towards his regiment. Trucks burs ...Show more
Fortress Malta by James Holland
59.95 NZD
69.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this tiny Mediterranean island - an island smaller than the Isle of Wight - t ...Show more
Fortress Malta: An Island under seige 1940-1943 by James Holland
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In just two months in 1942 - March and April - more explosives were dropped on this 17 x 9-mile Mediterranean island than on the whole of Britain during the entire first year of the Blitz. In 1942 Malta was the most important strategic piece of land in the w ...Show more
Heroes : The greatest generation and the second world war by James Holland
26.99 NZD
28.00 (3% off)
Category: Military
Heroes is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men -- and women -- found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be prepared to shoulder today. Whether fighting in the jungle ...Show more
RAF Centenary Experience by James Holland
59.99 NZD
Category: Military
RAF 100 celebrates and commemorates 100 years of the Royal Air Force. With unique access to the RAF's historic archives, James Holland uses photographs and documents to bring the story of the people, planes and missions to life as never before. From its genesis in the horrors of the First World War, whe ...Show more
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American an ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression that no-one could counter. Within weeks the German armies were at the French coast and looking across at Britain, a country still reeling from the opening salvoes of the war. It seemed impossib ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
75.00 NZD
Category: Military
'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. "The Battle of Britain" was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War. Had Britain's defences collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able t ...Show more
The Battle of Britain (A Ladybird Expert book) by James Holland
21.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: A Ladybird Expert book
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history. Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research and interviews with participants to bring colour, detail and a fresh ...Show more
The Odin Mission by James Holland
12.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
Fans of Sharpe will love the first novel in the Jack Tanner series. Set in Norway, April 1940. Sergeant Jack Tanner and his Yorks Rangers, separated from the main battalion, are drawn into a desperate mission to smuggle Norway's King Haakon's treasures to safety. "From the Hardcover edition."
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One by Professor of Law James Holland (University of the West of England Bristol Professor of Employment Law University of the West of England, Bristol Professor of Employment Law and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England, Bristol)
43.99 NZD
Category: History
The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fixed, framed by the accounts of participants and an early generation of historians. James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II, has sp ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians