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20th Century: A Visual Guide to Events that Shaped the World by Richard Overy
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
History as you've never seen it before - an amazing visual guide to the 20th century. From global wars to the digital revolution, explore the world-changing events of the 20th century decade-by-decade with 20th Century. This is history as you've never seen it before - the events, the people and ...Show more
A History of War in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A history of warfare distilled into 100 momentous battles - epic moments that have shaped our world. From the earliest recorded skirmishes of the ancient world to the computerized conflicts of today, renowned military historian Richard Overy dramatically brings to life the sights and sounds of the most ...Show more
Blood and Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$90.00 NZD
Category: History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historiansRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a centu ...Show more
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global i ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by Richard Overy
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Officially endorsed by the Royal Air Force with unique access to their archives.
The Birth of the RAF 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end ...Show more
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period o ...Show more
The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies speci ...Show more
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
$65.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies speci ...Show more
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans and R ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by OVERY RICHARD
$79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memor ...Show more