Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972 - The Vietnam War's Great Conventional Clash by William E. Hiestand; Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustrator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive.Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, the United States had a ...Show more
Fire and Fury - The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan by Randall Hansen
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city, killing approximately 400,000 Germans and 330,00 Japanese, the vast majority civilians. Fully 83,000 British, Commonwealth, and American airmen lost their lives, as well. A large number of these raids occurred when All ...Show more
Stalingrad 1942-43 (3) - Catastrophe: the Death of Sixth Army by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Campaign Ser.
The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee. Having fought hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, the Axis forces found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle a ...Show more
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid ...Show more
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times, and a bad loser. His has spent countless hours phoning experts and distilling their knowledge - normally about rather more serious subjects than games. He has also been a feature writer for Times2 - and still writes freelance features for the Economist Int ...Show more
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global i ...Show more
The Nazi Hunters by Damien Lewis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid ...Show more
Blazing Star, Setting Sun - The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942-March 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A masterful account of a vital four months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, a key turning point in both the Pacific Theater and the wider Second World War. From popular Pacific Theater expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful ...Show more
Pathfinder by David Blakeley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
First in - the official motto of the one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the SAS. And like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep ...Show more
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller by Antony Beevor
$31.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...Show more
Heroes of Gallipoli by Richard Stowers
$55.00 NZD
$75.00 (26% off)
Category: Military History
With the centenary of the First World War upon us in 2015, Richard Stowers has written this book to increase the awareness of the unpretentious gallantry and service by New Zealanders during the Gallipoli campaign. The book details the bravery and distinguished service of men and women of the 1st echelo ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more