Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler's War Machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine, through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraord ...Show more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
Firepower - How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart
60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
How military technology has transformed the world The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponry and how it transformed not only the conduct of warfare but also ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A comprehensive collection of the most essential versions of The Art of War, the classic Chinese military treatise considered by many as the ultimate strategy guideSun Tzu's Art of War, compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the m ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Remarkable' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of ...Show more
Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
42.99 NZD
Category: Military History
An engaging and detailed study of Winston Churchill's career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain's colonial wars, through his battlefield experience in World War I to his strategic command in World War II. This book examines how in high office he got it both right and wrong.Fr ...Show more
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A grand tale of heroic failure during the Dieppe raid of 1942, grippingly told by the bestselling author of Bomber BoysOn the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intell ...Show more
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and t ...Show more
The Wars of the Roses by Hugh Bicheno
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne of England; the story is one of unbridled ambition and murderous treachery. From the 1450s, when the mentally unstable Henry VI struggled to control the ...Show more
Brothers in Arms - One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from d-Day to VE-Day (HB) by James Holland
55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes the untold story of the Sherwood Rangers It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerabl ...Show more
The Afghanistan Papers : A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, t ...Show more