Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Turkish Defence - the Story from Turkish Documents by Harvey Broadbent
$94.99 NZD
Category: Military History
At the start of the 21st century both Australia and Turkey have grasped relevance to their national identities and ideals in the Gallipoli campaign. Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Gallipoli, the Turkish Defence is the first and only book to tell the complete story of this bitterly fought ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The longest campaign of the Second World War. The most destructive naval campaign in all history. An epic story that has never been fully told.The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to the defeat of the Germans in the Second World War. If the U-boats had prevailed, the mariti ...Show more
War at the End of the World: Douglas Macarthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942 - 1945 by James P. Duffy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wildern ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
The Invisible Cross: One Frontline Officer, Three Years in the Trenches, a Remarkable Untold Story by Andrew Davidson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Colonel Graham Chaplin, commander of the Cameron Highlanders, wrote letters from the trenches almost daily to the wife he had married just before the war began. Even if he had no time to write, he would at least send a postcard to reassure her he was 'Quite well'. These personal and loving letters give ...Show more
X Platoon by Steve Heaney, MC
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist. X Platoon had no b ...Show more
Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could spl ...Show more
Laucala Bay: The Story of the RNZAF in Fiji 1939 to 1967 by Bee Dawson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
"A social history of the RNZAF flying-boat station at Laucala Bay, near Suva in Fiji. As the prospect of a Pacific war with Japan became likely in the 1930s, a Commonwealth defence conference decided which countries would be responsible for which parts of the Pacific. New Zealand was given responsibilit ...Show more
Castle of the Eagles - Export: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz by Mark Felton
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, an elaborate medieval castle, converted to a POW camp on Mussolini's personal orders, holds one of the most illustrious groups of prisoners in the history of warfare. The dozen or so British and Commonwealth senior officers includes three knights of the realm and ...Show more