Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
26.99 NZD
Category: Military 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
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
26.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
The Crew by David Price
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Ta ...Show more
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France by James Holland
24.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'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
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park by Dermot Turing
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in the Allied victory in World War II. Written by Dermot ...Show more
The History of the SAS as told by the Men on the Ground by Chris Ryan
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the regiment's tactics, training, weapons and equipment.' - ...Show more
SAS Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien LewisWe share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then seek post-war retribution for the terrible murder o ...Show more
Battle for Crete by John Hall Spencer
44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Battle for Crete is a fine account of the political and military prelude to the evacuation of British, Australian and New Zealand forces from Greece to Crete in April 1941, and of the subsequent German offensive against Crete, the first airborne assault in history on a defended island. During two year's ...Show more
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPaul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today's most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led ...Show more
The Way of the Knife - The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
New York Times journalist Mark Mazzetti has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. In The Way of the Knife, Mazzetti offers a riveting account of how the CIA and special ops forces have been transformed to accommodate the new American way of war. From killer drones ...Show more