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  • New Zealand's Foreign Policy under the Jacinda Ardern Government

    Facing the Challenge of a Disrupted World

    by Robert G Patman, Peter Grace, Balazs Kiglics ...
    The purpose of this book is to examine the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand Government between 2020 and early 2023 when the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with an evolving and often tumultuous post-Cold War global environment. This context witnessed the erosion of an international rules-based order and the renewal of great power competition. In particular, the Indo-Pacific has become ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Cirencester at War

    by Peter Grace ...
    Series series At War
    Cirencester at War is a pictoral record of the main events of the Second World War as they impacted on the town of Cirencester and its surrounding district. Illustrated with over 200 old photographs and documents, Cirencester at War gives an insight into wartime life with its tragedy, heroism, austerity and humour. With over thirty military establishments within a 12-mile radius, from the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Blitz

    The British Under Attack

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "The Blitz" brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.The blitz proved to be a highly effective laboratory constructed out of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Mike Brown, Carol Harris ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wartime

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed that both sides issued receipts: the rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. It features ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girls in Khaki

    A History of the ATS in the Second World War

    by Barbara Green ...
    At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain's manpower crisis forced them to turn to a previously untapped resource: women. For years it was thought women would be incapable of serving in uniform, but the ATS was to prove everyone wrong. Formed in 1938, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service was a remarkable legion of women; this is their story. They took over many roles, releasing ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Belfast Blitz: The City in the War Years

    by Brian Barton ...
    The Second World War was a titanic struggle against totalitarianism. It involved civilian populations – in the production of ships and armaments and as victims of aerial bombardments – as never before. In this respect, Belfast played an important role. The more it became vital to the war effort the greater was the risk that it would be subjected to a blitz from the Luftwaffe. In spite of that, it ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Q Central

    How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War

    by Paul Brown, Edward Herbert ...
    A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, ' Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to defend the country or designed to confuse and undermine enemy morale. The headquarters of radar, RAF Group 60, also came to Leighton Buzzard to be ... Read more

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  • Zeppelin Onslaught

    The Forgotten Blitz, 1914–1915

    by Ian Castle ...
    A riveting account of the first sustained, strategic aerial bombing campaign in history—by German airships on Britain in the First World War.At the outbreak of the Great War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defense capability worthy of the name. Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country, with all but five of these considered of dubious value. So when raiding German aircraft ... Read more

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  • Coventry's Blitz

    by David McGrory ...
    'I was happy that Coventry was selected as a target, as it was an important military objective... The night was clear and flying was easy. Missing the target was practically impossible.' Field-Marshal Kesselring, describing the air raid of 14 November 1940. Between 1940 and 1942 the people of Coventry were subjected to continued and devastating attacks by the Luftwaffe, leaving 1,252 dead, 1,859 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Our Land at War

    A Portrait of Rural Britain 1939–45

    by Duff Hart-Davis ...
    A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel and evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds and firing ranges, and whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD