War in Britain by Tim Newark
8.44 NZD
Category: Military
English Heritage arranged re-enacted events every weekend in summer 1998. The largest, in August at Kirby Hall attracted 25,000 spectators and involved over 2,000 re-enactors. The aim was to reveal what it was like to be a soldier, soldier's wife, servant or even child on campaign in Britain. From Roman ...Show more
War in the Pacific by Richard Overy
59.99 NZD
Category: Military
A detailed look at the war against Japan in the Pacific Islands during the Second World War. Published to coincide with the forthcoming ten-part HBO mini series, 'The Pacific', produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman - the team behind the hugely successful 'Band of Brothers'.
The Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now by Jeffrey Plowman; Perry Rowe
195.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. Between January and May 1944, forces from Britain, Canada, France ...Show more
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund
59.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, ...Show more
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
In 1968, at the age of 22 Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in t ...Show more
Crimea by Orlando Figes
32.00 NZD
Category: Military
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could co ...Show more