D-Day The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
"As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there...It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement". (Giles Foden, "Guardian"). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking ...Show more
Nazi Hunters by Damien Lewis
$37.99 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
Modern American Snipers by Chris Martin
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: General Adult
Most people think of snipers as shooters perched in urban hides, dealing out death unseen from a considerable distance. But this description barely scratches the surface. Special operations snipers are men with stacked skill sets who have the ability to turn the tide of battles, even when they aren't pu ...Show more
Big Week by James Holland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all . . .During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the m ...Show more
The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged - soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, d ...Show more
Hunt the Bismarck - The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship (HB) by Angus Konstam
$52.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armored protection ear ...Show more
2sas - Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II by Gavin Mortimer
$54.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS. For far too long Bill's crucial wartime role has been overshadowed by his more famous brother David Stirling. Gavin Mortimer, a world expert on the wartime SAS, offers a groundbr ...Show more
In Wartime: Stories From Ukraine by Tim Judah
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, Tim Judah brings a rar ...Show more
Deserter - A Hidden History of the Second World War by Charles Glass
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII. During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Af ...Show more
Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising by Alexandra Richie
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Secret and Special (PB) by Will Davies
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more