The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Secret and Special (PB) by Will Davies
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home. The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror ...Show more
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
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.Going with the Boy ...Show more
Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told until now. It was Wade McClusky who remained calm when the Japanese fleet was not where it was expec ...Show more
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK; Smithsonian Institution (Contribution by)
48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative histor ...Show more
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
As Long As I Hope to Live by Claudia Carli
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, ...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
SAS Great Escapes by Damien Lewis
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
SAS Great Escapes tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous military fighting force - the SAS.With each story comes a nail-biting, rollercoaster ride in classic Damien Lewis style - readers join individual escapees a ...Show more