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Dambusters : A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
DoP - November 2008 - United Kingdom On the 17th May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial and heavily defended dams deep in the heart of Germany. The raiders would have ...Show more
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The Dambusters raid is an unforgettable event in British military history and has passed into legend. On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dusk at RAF Scampton. Their brief was to fly at night across occupied Europe and drop specially designed 'bouncing' bombs at a mere 60 fee ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur
$27.90 NZD
Category: World History
The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers spent hundreds of hours digging deep into this u ...Show more
Last of the Few by Max Arthur
$46.00 NZD
Category: World History
After the fall of France to the German army in May 1940, Hitler set his sights on the invasion of Britain. Within weeks he had a vast battle fleet ranged along the French coast. But his biggest obstacle was the small and under-resourced Royal Air Force. Hitler knew that he must gain control of the skies ...Show more
Symbol of Courage : The Men Behind the Medal by Max Arthur
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A history of Britain's most famous medal, and a moving examination of the nature of extreme courage. The Victoria Cross can only be awarded for 'most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy.' It has been ...Show more
The Paras : An Oral History by Max Arthur
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Published to coincide with 75th anniversary of its formation, this is the definitive history of the iconic Parachute Regiment, told through the voices of more than 200 of the soldiers themselves. From the daring raids of World War 2 through Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Bosnia and Afghanistan, the Pa ...Show more
The Real Band of Brothers : First hand accounts of the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War by Max Arthur
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936-9, was a brutal and intense war which claimed well over 500,000 lives. Rightly predicting that the rise of Fascism in Spain could develop into a more global conflict, almost 2500 British volunteers travelled to Spain under the banner of the International Brig ...Show more
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front by Max Arthur
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men would never return. This is the story of that extraordinary 24 hours. Using a wealth of first person testimonies, renowned histor ...Show more
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