Great Battles by Christer Jorgensen
19.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Military Pockt Guide
Provides an accessible, highly-illustrated introduction to 30 of history's most famous battles, including Marathon, Hastings, Agincourt, D-Day and many, many more.
Atlas of Military History by Aaron Ralby; Jill Hamilton
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Passchendaele : The Anatomy of a Tragedy by Andrew Macdonald
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
This extensively researched book tells the story of one of the darkest hours of New Zealand's and Australia's First World War military. With the forensic use of decades-old documents and soldier accounts, it unveils for the first time what really happened on the war-torn slopes of Passchendaele, why, an ...Show more
I Fought at Dunkirk: Seven Veterans Remember Their Fight for Salvation by Mike Rossiter
30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. When Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, thousands of young men sailed across the English Channel to fight for their country. Among them were the seven soldiers who share their stories in this book ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
26.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The rescue at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in wh ...Show more
Somme; Into The Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows t ...Show more
The Paras : An Oral History by Max Arthur
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Published to coincide with 75th anniversary of its formation, this is the definitive history of the iconic Parachute Regiment, told through the voices of more than 200 of the soldiers themselves. From the daring raids of World War 2 through Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Bosnia and Afghanistan, the Pa ...Show more
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the ...Show more
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson
48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
As Hitler's Blitzkrieg vanquished one European country after another in the chaos-filled spring of 1940, and the United States and the Soviet Union were still on the sidelines, London suddenly found itself the de facto capital of Europe, a haven for Europe's struggling governments in exile- Holland, Cze ...Show more
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
28.00 NZD
Category: Military History
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then ...Show more
Dunkirk by Julian Thompson
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. When the Germans invaded, the BEF found themselves in mortal danger thanks to the collapse of the French army on one flank and the Belgian on another. Ill-equipped and under-trained, th ...Show more
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
49.99 NZD
75.00 (33% off)
Category: Military History
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a uniq ...Show more