Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain by Joshua Levine
27.99 NZD
Category: Military
Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time. In June 1940, British citizens prepared for an imminent German ...Show more
Operation Fortitude: The True Story of the Key Spy Operation of WWII That Saved D-Day by Joshua Levine
34.99 NZD
Category: Military
Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. 'One of the most creative intelligence operations of all time' - Kim Philby The story of how this web was woven is one of intrigue, personal d ...Show more
The Real Band of Brothers : First hand accounts of the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War by Max Arthur
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Military
The Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936-9, was a brutal and intense war which claimed well over 500,000 lives. Rightly predicting that the rise of Fascism in Spain could develop into a more global conflict, almost 2500 British volunteers travelled to Spain under the banner of the International Brig ...Show more
Alamein: The Turning Point of World War Two by Iain Gale
36.99 NZD
Category: Military
The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its al ...Show more
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
24.99 NZD
Category: Military
Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006, the elite 3 Para battlegroup was despatched to Helmand Provi ...Show more
Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
26.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Ko ...Show more
Heroes : The greatest generation and the second world war by James Holland
26.99 NZD
28.00 (3% off)
Category: Military
Heroes is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men -- and women -- found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be prepared to shoulder today. Whether fighting in the jungle ...Show more
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War by Richard Holmes
69.99 NZD
Category: Military
Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier, written in the words of the men and women of his regiment who are currently completing a dangerous and bloody six-month tour of duty. In this remarkable book, Richard Hol ...Show more
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales From The Battlefield by Max Hastings
26.99 NZD
Category: Military
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings. Over the course of forty years of ...Show more
Together We Stand : North Africa 1942-1943 - Turning the tide in the west by James Holland
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Military
From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta, this is the second book in the Mediterranean War trilogy. This book looks at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing on the involvement of the US and the way this early collaboration to defeat shaped the whole Anglo-American axis for the rest of the war i ...Show more
Collins Atlas of Military History by Philip Parker (ed.)
33.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A brand-new history of the world's principal military developments and campaigns, from the Greeks and Romans to the Vietnam War and beyond, illustrated with state of the art mapping. From the dawn of the very first civilizations, people have fought for the control of resources and territory. The Collins ...Show more
Jane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles by Leland Ness
59.99 NZD
89.99 (33% off)
Category: Military
This is the land equivalent of "Jane's Battleships", a comprehensive encyclopaedia of all the combat vehicles of World War II from Somaliland to Japan. A nation-by-nation overview of each country's development of tanks and their involvement in World War II is before providing an A-Z of each army's tanks ...Show more