The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...Show more
Killing the Killers - The Secret War Against Terrorists by Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Bill o'Reilly's Killing Ser.
In the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Killing the Killers, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September 11, 2001.As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passe ...Show more
Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A frightening study of intelligence failings - 'blunders' - in warfare from the Second World War to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and their impact on events. Here is the insider's view from a former professional intelligence officer .
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Against insurmountable odds, SAS men crossed deserts, evaded revenge and escaped through enemy lands.Lieutenant Bill Fraser and the six SAS men he led were listed as Missing in Action (MIA) after their failure to return from a raid. Nine weeks later they emerged from a death-defying sojourn across the S ...Show more
SAS - Battle Ready - True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the World by Dominic Utton
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit's most daring and memorable ...Show more
Under the Southern Cross - The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
36.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A vivid narrative history of the Solomons campaign of World War II, one of the key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. If the Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, stopped further Japanese expansion in the Pacific, it was the Battle of Guadalcanal and the fol ...Show more
Gallipoli: the Scale of our War by Puawai Cairns; Michael Keith; Christopher Pugsley; Richard Taylor
35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which almost 3000 New Zealanders lost their lives. Jus ...Show more
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski
85.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe. Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were allowed to run themselves within tight limits. Others - such as France - were constrained not onl ...Show more
Should We Fall to Ruin - New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds. by Harrison Christian
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as ‘hostages to fortune’, the little-known garrison on Australia’s tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the ou ...Show more
The True Story of the Great Escape - Stalag Luft III, March 1944 by Jonathan Vance
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th-25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen before. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in World War ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in ...Show more
The Glamour Boys: Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been tol ...Show more