Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in ...Show more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
An epic, intimate new account of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II, from number one bestselling historian Max Hastings. Operation Pedestal was a crucial relief mission that became an epic, bloody naval battle and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. In 1942, the Luftwaffe had a stra ...Show more
Tobruk: A Raid Too Far by David Jefferson
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The disastrous raid on Tobruk, the ill-fated Operation Agreement, took place in September 1942. The purpose? To cut off Field-Marshal Rommel's supply line prior to the Battle of El Alamein, which would be crucial in determining the success or failure of the North African campaign. Operation Agreement i ...Show more
The Official Dambusters Experience by John Sweetman
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The daring "Dambusters" raid on 17 May 1943, when a special force of British Avro Mark III Lancasters attacked and destroyed the Eder Dams in Germany, was one of the iconic moments of the Second World War. "The Dambusters Experience" tells the story behind the attack, and relives the attack itself under ...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
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propose ...Show more
Faces of the Few - The Battle for Survival in the Summer Of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
$79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalized by Churchill in August 1940 as 'The Few'.Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of people's daily lives, not least because of mobile phone came ...Show more
Fighter Boys : Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A remarkable, intimate portrait of the young men of Fighter Command, whose skill, temperament and morale determined the fate of Britain and arguably the free world. The Battle of Britain, fought in the skies over Britain during the sweltering summer of 1940, was one of the most crucial battles ever foug ...Show more
The Hill - The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete by Robert Kershaw
$44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of the individuals whose actions determined the outcome of the battle ...Show more
Normandy '44 - D-Day and the Battle for France by James Holland
$24.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and sensitivity. Holland has both in spades' The Times Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments ...Show more