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Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
$26.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Ko ...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
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a persona ...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
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
<b><i>The Battle for the Falklands </i>is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.</b> Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The ...Show more
The Second World War - A World in Flames by David Horner; Max Hastings (Foreword by); Robin Havers; Alastair Finlan; Mark J. Grove; Philip D. Grove; Paul Collier; Geoffrey Jukes; Russell Hart; Stephen A. Hart
$64.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter c ...Show more
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royall ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales From The Battlefield by Max Hastings
$26.99 NZD
Category: Military History
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings. Over the course of forty years of ...Show more