The Nazis Knew My Name by Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
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 Man with Miraculous Hands: The Extraordinary Story of Himmler's Therapist Who Saved Thousands of Lives by Joseph Kessel
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning film Schindler’s List turned the hero Oscar Schindler into a household name, telling the story of the man who saved countless thousands from Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. Few, however, have heard of Felix Kersten, the rotund and a ...Show more
Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protégé by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in ...Show more
The Boy Who Went to War - Jim Haynes' True Story of WWII by Dawn Meredith; Jim Haynes (Interviewee)
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
As a thirteen year old butcher's apprentice, Jim Haynes was desperate to join the Royal Navy when World War II began. At sixteen his parents finally allowed him to escape the slums of Nottingham. Jim served his country in his teen years, being drafted to a brand new frigate HMS Avon K97, dropping depth ...Show more
ANZAC Biscuits (Special HB Edition) by Phil Cummings
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children
Rachel’s in the kitchen, warm and safe. Her father’s in the trenches, cold and afraid ... When Rachel makes biscuits for her father, she adds the love, warmth and hope that he needs. This is a touching story of a family torn apart by war but brought together through the powerful simplicity of Anzac Bisc ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children
It is 1940, and sixteen-year-old Peter Fullerton and his best mate Tony Cantonelli lie about their age to enlist in the army. Tony also lies about his surnameAustralia is at war with Italy, and suspicion has been added to the racism he already encounters. Heroes of Tobruk follows these characters from t ...Show more
Haywire (Australia's Second World War) by Claire Saxby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Australia's Second World War Ser.
In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly fourteen-years-old. He is sent to his Uncle Ferdy in London, but is then interred and shipped to Australia aboard the Dunera. He arrives in Hay and meets Tom. The two boys become friends and find their liv ...Show more
Sydney Under Attack (Australia's Second World War) by Sophie Masson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Australia's Second World War
In 1942, 12-year-old Nick lives in Rose Bay, Sydney, with his mum, dad and sister, and dreams of becoming a writer like his dad. But with the world at war, Nick is constantly on alert for anything that seems out of the ordinary and then late one night he sees it! A plane! But no-one believes him! Then, ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar; Dina Kraft
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: near fine
In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar' ...Show more
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley
$19.99 AUD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: War
The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in fact born Fritz Brandes. And it was only after his fath ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germa ...Show more
Carve Her Name with Pride by R. J. Minney
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
The thrilling and inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, the fearless British cloak-and-dagger agent who infiltrated Nazi occupied France. Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women's Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French Fo ...Show more