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The Nazis Knew My Name by Magda Hellinger; Maya Lee
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other y ...Show more
The Pelican History of Medieval Europe by Maurice Keen
$6.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
This is a portrait of Italy unlike any other, a heady blend of travel, history, art and food that takes us from Lake Garda's lemon houses through the gardens of Tuscan villas to Calabria's scented bergamot groves and a Sicilian marmalade kitchen, from top to bottom of the land where lemons grow. 'Unmiss ...Show more
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
On innumerable bestseller lists, this is a brilliant combination of Italian art, crime, food, history, and travel, presented with tremendous narrative verse and fascinating detail. Originally published 1996. "Cola Pesce was always playing in the sea and one day his mother said in exasperation she hoped ...Show more
What We Knew - Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric W Johnson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this remarkable personal history Germans and German Jews now living around the world tell of their everyday experiences of life in 1930s and 1940s Germany. They describe their brushes with the Gestapo and other organs of terror, and what they knew at the time about the mass murder of German and other ...Show more
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Auschwitz 1270 to the Present by Deborah Dwork; Robert Jan van Pelt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present elucidates how the prewar ordinary town of Auschwitz became Germany's most lethal killing site step by step and in stages: a transformation wrought by human beings, mostly German and mostly male. Who were the men who conceived, created, and constructed the killing facility ...Show more
The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship with France. Using her own personal experiences over 25 year ...Show more
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world's truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned ...Show more
2017 War with Russia - An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command by Richard Shirreff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
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