The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa - Stalingrad of the Pacific by Saul David
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Excellent' Antony BeevorFrom award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world. For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the isl ...Show more
The War for the Seas - A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley
89.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding
Topgun: The Real Story by Dan Pedersen
24.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When American fighter jets were being downed at an unprecedented rate during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy turned to a young lieutenant commander, Dan Pedersen, to figure out a way to reverse their dark fortune. On a shoestring budget and with little support, Pedersen picked eight of the finest pilots ...Show more
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable sto ...Show more
The Ratline - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: good-very good
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
36.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence
28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety. Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting operations deep inside Iraq. They were operating ...Show more
Jungle Green Shadows by Tony Howell
75.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The New Zealand Government ordered the deployment of combat forces to Vietnam in 1965 to join Australia and other Allies engaged in that War. Victor 2 Rifle Company arrived in Vietnam on 12 November 1967 and left on 13 May 1968. Major Brian Worsnop was the commander, and the author, Lieutenant Tony Howe ...Show more