Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
A War of Empires - Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Drawing on over 30 years of ground-breaking research, best-selling author Robert Lyman expertly re-examines the so-called 'Forgotten War' in Burma, revealing it to be a ferocious clash of competing visions of empire, which would irrevocably change the future of both Britain and the Indian subcontinent f ...Show more
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by James Holland
70.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The Second World War is brought to life with captivating colour and detail, in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith BurnsFrom the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles an ...Show more
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A close-up at the sharp end of armoured warfare This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - the sheer nerve-wracking tensi ...Show more
1945: Victory in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams
37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPHMarch 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A Gripping Story of Wartime Courage and Adventure by Neil Churches
27.99 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 a camp in Maribor ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry
31.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Highlights the ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more