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Mammoth Book of Covert Ops: True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama Bin Laden by Jon E. Lewis
$15.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Mammoth Books
Twenty true stories of covert military operations, from raids into Laos by elite unit MAC-V-SOG to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War to the US Navy SEAL 6 operation Neptune's Spear in Abbottabad which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Lewis shines a light on the 'shadow war' units ...Show more
Mammoth Book of Special Forces Training: Physical and Mental Secrets of Elite Military Units by Jon E. Lewis
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces. He also looks at the codes that that bind the members of these elite units togethe ...Show more
SAS: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Brief Histories
"SAS: The Autobiography" is the story of the world's most famous special forces regiment by those who truly know it - the troopers and officers themselves. From the dust of the wartime desert and raids on harboured Luftwaffe aircraft to sniping al-Qaeda in the far mountains of Afghanistan
Spitfire: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis
$33.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The plane and the men that saved Britain in 1940 in their own words. This is a celebration of the machine and the men who took to the skies in defence of Britain. It is also the dramatic illustration of a little understood truth: the Spitfire did more than win the Battle of Britain - it won the war. I ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Travel
This is the very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's la ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies by Jon E. Lewis
$15.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Mammoth Books
Bang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and Afghanistan. This title features the 100 military, medical, religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups 'they' really don't want you to know about: The Military-Industrial Complex's fomentation of war ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Everest: From the First Attempts to Today, 40 First-Hand Accounts by Jon E. Lewis
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
This selection of the very best writing on Everest begins with the first attempts and continues, via Mallory's failed bid and Hillary and Tenzing's triumph, to the disasters of recent years. It features 35 white-knuckle accounts of climbing on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and trium ...Show more
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The testament to a tragedy. "Voices from The Holocaust" follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were ...Show more
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 Eyewitness Accounts of a Soldier's Life in the Early 1800s by Jon E. Lewis
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Contemporaries were mesm ...Show more
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