Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm by John Nichol
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude. ‘We were doing about 620 miles-per-hour, 200 feet above t ...Show more
Saving Private Sarbi: The True Story of Australia's Canine War Hero by Sandra Lee
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Saving Private Sarbi is the dramatic and heart-warming true story of a scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable. This canine warrior went missing in action following a historic battle between the elite SAS ...Show more
Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
$59.99 NZD
$85.00 (29% off)
Category: Military History
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experien ...Show more
The First World War by Ammonite Press
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: In Pictures
This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a look at the legacies of the war, including the establishment of the United Nations and the European Union. The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in hu ...Show more
Wars That Never End by Ian Ferguson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This book examines the effects of combat stress on the family lives of past and present war veterans. A high proportion of those who served in Afghanistan have committed suicide since returning to civilian life. Partners and family members also suffer, in their shared lives with emotionally scarred war ...Show more
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the strength of the Cretan ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more
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
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 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