Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
World War II (The Definitive Visual Guide) by Richard Holmes
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Definitive Visual Guide
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II. From the build-up of hostility in the years leading up to the war, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessible and imm ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD by Andrew Roberts
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Art of War
What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at Agincourt for the loss of a few hundred of his men, when the mounted French knights suffered casualties in the thousands? Why was Hernan Cortes able to lead a ragged band of men to bring down the ext ...Show more
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink Germ ...Show more
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have so ...Show more
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942-March 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
$54.99 NZD
Category: Military History
From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. His previous book, Morning Star, Rising Sun, had found the US Navy at its absolute nadir and the fate of the Enterprise, the last operatio ...Show more
Race of Aces - WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky by John R. Bruning
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his ...Show more
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918–1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.'Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched' - The ...Show more
Battles Map by Map by DK
$70.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Experience the world's most significant battles through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. Covering everything from the battlefields of the ancient world to the bomb-scarred landscapes of World War II and beyond, this book is packed with engrossing ma ...Show more
Pacific Carrier War - Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
$65.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the Pacific Theater of World War II was the clash of car ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
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