Highway to Hell by John Geddes
37.99 NZD
Category: Military
An SAS soldier's account of the biggest mercenary army to be assembled since the American War of Independence - the 30,000 'private military contractors' hired to fight in Iraq. "Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Amman to Baghdad along the Fallujah by-pass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. I ...Show more
479th Fighter Group by John Stanaway
59.99 NZD
Category: Military
Formed in October 1943, the 479th FG claimed an impressive history against the Luftwaffe during the final year of the war. Originally flying P-38s, the 479th's pilots had a fierce pride of arms. They earned a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation in the late summer of 1944 and were also credited with ...Show more
Soldier 'I': the Story of an SAS Hero : From Mirbat to the Iranian Embassy Siege and Beyond by Pete Winner
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you have the stamina, the willpower and the guts, we'll welcome you with open arms and you one of us. And if you haven't, then it's been very nice knowing you. Eighteen years in the SAS saw Pete Winner, coden ...Show more
Out of Nowhere by Martin M. Pegler
49.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: General Military
From the American War of Independence to World War II, the history of the military combat marksman is one of indifference and cost cutting. Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, for most of the 20th century snipers were regarded as little more than paid assassins. It was not until ...Show more
Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Frontlines of Afghanistan by Anthony Shaffer
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
The explosive memoir that the American government tried to ban. Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer was part of a secret detachment of the US Army known as the 'Jedi Knights'. In Operation Dark Heart, he reveals for the first time, and in amazing detail, the otherwise secret world of black operations an ...Show more
The War at Sea by John Winton
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism. Here is a generous selection of personal experience written by the men and women who were there: in the British and Commonwealth Navies, the Fleet Air ...Show more
Fighter : The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
Len Deighton's skill as a novelist is used to show how the human factor influenced every twist and turn of this close-fought battle. His encyclopedic knowledge of technology makes clear how machines played a vital role in the fight for Britain's survival. Here is the intensely vivid story of the men who ...Show more
Dunkirk by Sean Longden
69.99 NZD
Category: Military
At 2 am on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" before turning his boat back towards England. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in which ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Enemy by Stephen Bungay
27.99 NZD
Category: Military
'The magnitude and vital importance of the Battle of Britain has found a superb chronicler in Stephen Bungay' Andrew Roberts Stephen Bungay's magisterial history was quickly accepted as the book about this central event in Britain's history and mythology - as the review quotes testify. Since its first p ...Show more
The Desert War : The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43
29.99 NZD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: Military
Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign in 1940 by the "Daily Express", and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his African Trilogy - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tus ...Show more
Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
27.99 NZD
Category: Military
More than ninety years on, the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still famous as perhaps the most disastrous, horrific and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. Masterminded by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its a ...Show more