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Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
29.99 NZD
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Category: History
"Hell's Gorge" traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of ...Show more
Monte Cassino by Matthew Parker
69.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri valley. Towering over the entrance to the valley was the medieval monastery of Monte Cassino, a seemingly impenetrable fortress high up in the ...Show more
Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-fought Battle of World War Two by Matthew Parker
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
The six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two. At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri val ...Show more
Panama Fever by Matthew Parker
67.99 NZD
Category: History
The heroic dream of building a Panama canal spans four centuries, but ends, in the late nineteenth century with one of history's great engineering disasters, followed, at the beginning of the next century by one of its greatest triumphs. In appalling working conditions, tens of thousands perished fighti ...Show more
The Battle of Britain June-October 1940 by Matthew Parker
29.95 NZD
Category: Travel
In the summer of 1940, Britain's army had been driven ignominously from France, her allies had collapsed and the population was seized with invasion panic. It seemed only a matter of time before Britain was forced to surrender to Germany's terrifying and efficient fighting machine. Into this terrible mo ...Show more
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