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1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$24.99 NZD
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I.In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," Am ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$64.99 NZD
Category: History
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language (the J ...Show more
Passchendaele by Paul Ham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
Young Hitler - The making of the fuhrer by Paul Ham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.He heard of Germany' ...Show more
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