The Spymaster of Baghdad - The untold story of the elite intelligence cell that turned the tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
'Authentic, moving, visceral, chilling, utterly revelatory, truly masterful. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground. A story of our time that absolutely needs to be told' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of ...Show more
No Wider War - A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part, exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French I ...Show more
The Fear and the Freedom :How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience and memory of bloodshed affect our lives in the years that followed?The new order, as it emerged after 1945, saw the end of European empires and the birth of two new superpowers, whose wrangling wou ...Show more
The Goldfish Club by Danny Danziger
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Mayday. Mayday. Mayday ...Every member of the Goldfish Club has been forced to broadcast these terrifying words from a stricken aircraft, making them one of the most unusual fellowships in the world. Formed during the Second World War to foster comradeship among pilots who had been forced to bail out ov ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Something ab ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies speci ...Show more
No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G. Malone by John Crawford & Peter Cooke (Editors)
$24.99 NZD
$49.99 (50% off)
Category: Military History
Perhaps the greatest leader of men during the Gallipoli campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone was commanding officer of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He is probably the best-known individual from that ill-fated campaign, a result both of his humanity a ...Show more
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones alr ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom, propaganda and an interpretation skewed by the information available. ...Show more
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin ...Show more
Big Week by James Holland
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle ...Show more