Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A GRIPPING TALE OF BRAVERY DURING THE DIEPPE RAID OF 1942 'An exemplary account of this wartime fiasco' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'well-researched, crisply written and utterly absorbing . . . will live for the reader long afterwards' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny _________ ...Show more
Stalingrad 1942-43 (3) - Catastrophe: the Death of Sixth Army by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Campaign Ser.
The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee. Having fought hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, the Axis forces found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle a ...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 Pathfinder Companion by Sean Feast
$29.99 NZD
$55.00 (45% off)
Category: Military History
What sort of men were the Pathfinders, the corps d'elite of Bomber Command? What did they do? What risks did they face? And what contribution did they make to the air war and the ultimate defeat of Germany? By drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving veterans - many speaking for the f ...Show more
US Seventh Fleet, Vietnam 1964-75 by Edward J. Marolda
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
"This is a terrific history of the Seventh Fleet's vital service to the United States in the Vietnam War... remarkably researched and interpreted" - Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, 2011-2015 and Commander Seventh Fleet, 2004-2006 "Combines a crisp text by the leading authority ...Show more
Operation Pedestal 1942 - The Battle for Malta's Lifeline by Angus Konstam; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
$38.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Campaign Ser.
A fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline. Since 1940, the island of Malta had been a thorn in the Axis' side. It sat astride the direct sea route between Italy and its North African colonies, and from 1941 the Royal Na ...Show more
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg, Germany's artillery was key to its methods of waging war throug ...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
Warriors in Scarlet - The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
$75.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change.An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on first-hand accounts to show us the reality of life for th ...Show more
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the Soviet Union by almost four million men of Nazi G ...Show more
Gallipoli: the Scale of our War by Puawai Cairns; Michael Keith; Christopher Pugsley; Richard Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which almost 3000 New Zealanders lost their lives. Jus ...Show more
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global i ...Show more