The Battlecruiser New Zealand - A Gift to Empire

Matthew J. Wright

This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a threat in Australasia and the Pacific. Born of the collision between New Zealand's patriotic dreams and European politics, the tale of HMS New Zealand is further...

Life in the Third Reich - Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

Paul Roland

True-life stories of ordinary Germans and their lives in Hitler's Germany.Challenges the popular view of Nazi Germany as a nation unified behind their despotic leader, and asks - 'What would you have done if you had been in their shoes?'Includes photographs scattered throughout text....