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Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$39.99 NZD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: Military History
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has ...Show more
From Taranto to Trieste by Jennifer Mallinson
$49.50 NZD
Category: Military History
Taranto to Trieste is an account of the author’s fascinating journey to retrace the actual path of the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy from its arrival in October 1943 until the end of the European war. Although a personal journey with personal reflections, the real story is about the largely off-the- ...Show more
Sicily '43 by James HOLLAND
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American a ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable st ...Show more
Jungle Green Shadows by Tony Howell
$75.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The New Zealand Government ordered the deployment of combat forces to Vietnam in 1965 to join Australia and other Allies engaged in that War. Victor 2 Rifle Company arrived in Vietnam on 12 November 1967 and left on 13 May 1968. Major Brian Worsnop was the commander, and the author, Lieutenant Tony Howe ...Show more
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The Crewrecounts the intimate, personal testimonies to the author of Wing Commander Ken Cook who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. The Crewspecifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Coman ...Show more
Tank Attack at Monte Cassino - The Cavendish Road Operation 1944 by Jeffrey Plowman
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Early morning, 19 March 1944. Tanks manned by New Zealanders, Indians and Americans launch a daring attack along a narrow mountain track on German positions north of Monte Cassino. So began one of the most audacious Allied attempts to break through the Gustav Line and advance on Rome - and it almost suc ...Show more
Normandy '44 - D-Day Battle for France by Holland, James
$24.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and sensitivity. Holland has both in spades' The Times Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments ...Show more
The Silent Division & Concerning One Man's War 1914-1919
$59.99 NZD
$75.00 (20% off)
Category: Military History
The book is in three parts. Part One: a re-issue, unaltered, of the acclaimed The Silent Division - New Zealanders at the Front 1914 - 1919, first published in 1935, but now including maps and illustrations. Part Two: issued for the first time; that part of Ormond Burton's hitherto unpublished autobiogr ...Show more
Undercover Agent - How a Young SOE Agent Thwarted the Nazis in Occupied France by Mark Seaman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The secret war of SOE's youngest agent at the heart of the French Resistance, Tony Brooks, who built a vast resistance organisation in Occupied France that defied the Nazis for two years until the liberation.
Courage Under Fire by Daniel Keighran; Tony Park (As told to)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
B-29 Superfortress, Vol. 1 - Boeing's XB-29 Through B-29B in World War II by David Doyle
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was not only the largest and most advanced US aircraft to see combat in World War II, it was also the most expensive weapons system of the war, even exceeding the cost of developing the atomic bombthe weapon that ultimately would be delivered to Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a ...Show more