Freyberg: Churchill's Salamander by Laurie Barber

$30.00 NZD

Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good

A study of New Zealand's most famous general during the years 1941-1945. His command capability is seen in a new light, with the declassification of intelligence material used in Crete and Mareth. He is portrayed here as an innovative, able, tenacious and brave commander.

Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Paperback (B-Form at) ...Show more

Bill Gentry's War, 1939-1945 - Letters by Bill Gentry; Sally Mathieson

$10.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

The Last Lion: Alone: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester

$10.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill's fine st hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone--only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm. Praise for "The Last Lion: Alone" "Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin's judgment of Churchill as 'the largest human being of our time.'"--"The New Yorker"" " "Memorable."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "Stirring . . . As Manchester points out several times, it's as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. The years "Alone "are the pivotal years of Churchill's career."--"The Boston Sunday Globe"" " "The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new."--"Newsweek" "A triumph . . . equal in stature to the first volume of the series."--"Newsday"" " "Vivid . . . history in the grand manner.""--The Washington Post" "Compelling reading."--"The Times" (London) ...Show more

A Fighting Withdrawal: Life of Dan Davin - Writer, Soldier, Publisher by Keith Ovenden

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

Ovenden draws on public and private papers to paint a compelling portrait of Dan Davin, OUP's Academic Publisher. He charts one man's growth against the background of war and the literary-intellectual milieu of post-war London and Oxford. A New Zealander, Davin originally came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scho lar. During the Second World War he fought in Crete, and, later, wrote the campaign's official history. As a novelist he befriended contemporary writers such as Louis MacNeice, and Joyce Cary among others. In this fascinating biography Davin emerges as a man with a complex public and private life, beset in later life by depression and alcoholism. ...Show more

Wine, Women and Song - a SpitfirePilot's Story: Doug Brown's letters

$40.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

Gunner Inglorious Ppr Nz

$5.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

Tribes with Flags["A Journey Curtailed"] by Charles Glass

$10.00 NZD

Category: Biographies | Series: Picador Bks.

Charles Glass began work on a book chronicling the land and culture of the Levant in 1987. This book is the result, tracing Glass' journey from Southern Turkey around the bay of Alexandretta through Syria, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. It also includes an account of his kidnap experience in Beirut.

That Others May Live: The True Story of a Pj, a Member of America's Most Daring Rescue Force by Jack Brehm, Sgt

$10.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

The remarkable true story of the military's most elite corp, the para-rescue jumpers (PJs), as told by a 20-year veteran still on active duty. 8-page photo insert.

The Last Lion - Visions of Glory1874-1932: Vol I by William Manchester

$10.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy. From master biographer William Mancheste r, "The Last Lion: Visions of Glory "reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times--and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century." "Praise for "The Last Lion: Visions of Glory" "Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end."--Russell Baker "Bedazzling."--"Newsweek" "Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill's] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book.""--The Philadelphia Inquirer"" " "An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him."--"People" "Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other."--"Chicago Tribune"" " "A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows."--"Boston Herald"" " "Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.""--Time" ...Show more

My Part in the Sky by Roland Beamont

$30.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

Straight and Level - The Autobiography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth "Bing" Cross, KCB, CBE, DSO, DFC, 1911-1945 by Kenneth Cross

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

The author was commissioned in the RAF in 1930, and during the course of his career he was director of six departments at the Air Ministry, five of which were in the operational field. This autobiography covers his exploits and experiences in World War II.