World War Il: The Definitive Visual Guide by Dorling Kindersley
85.00 NZD
Category: Military
This work presents the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II. From the build-up of hostility in the years leading up to the war, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessi ...Show more
World War I (DK Eyewitness Guide) by Dorling Kindersley
25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Eyewitness
This title helps you to be an eyewitness to the 'war to end all wars'. From the muddy trenches to the triumph of democracy, you can discover all about the historic and world-changing events of the First World War. You can get the picture using the clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download. Th ...Show more
World War II (DK Eyewitness Guide with CD) by Dorling Kindersley
25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Eyewitness
This title helps you to be an eyewitness to life during World War II. From doodlebugs to D-Day, discover all about the historic and world-changing events of the Second World War. You can get the picture using the clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download. Then use the giant pull-out wallchart ...Show more
The Longest Siege : Tobruk - The Battle That Saved North Africa by Robert Lyman
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Beginning on 10th April, 1941, and lasting 240 days, the siege of Tobruk is a mesmerising tale of human endurance and heroism, as the Libyan port's 24,000 defenders met increasingly desperate attempts by Rommel's Panzer divisions to break through the hurriedly thrown-up defences. It was a battle of bayo ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
49.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
I Confess: A Memoir of the Siege of Tobruk by John Joseph Murray
36.99 NZD
Category: Military
I Confess is an intimate portrayal of command in the crucible of war. But Major General John Joseph Murray's portrait of wartime leadership is not the stuff of military textbooks and his war is no set-piece battle. Murray commanded the Australian 20th Brigade during the siege of Tobruk, that grinding, t ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of Anzac by David W. Cameron
44.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
This book is the first book since Charles Bean's Official History to provide a detailed narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60, along with the other engagements that went on until the very last days at Anzac - viewed from both sides of the trenches. It also examines in detail the planning ...Show more
Breakout Minqar Qaim North Africa 1942 by Colin Cameron
29.95 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Why revisit Minqar Qaim? Some writers ignore it; some regard the action as merely part of a broader canvas. Others, using it as an example of unrestrained brutality, seek to place it in a context from which to make a political argument. The artillery battle at Minqar Qaim on 27 June and subsequent break ...Show more
New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand & Allies and the First World War by John Crawford & Ian McGibbon (eds)
79.00 NZD
79.99 (1% off)
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in Wor ...Show more
Under a Bomber's Moon: The True Story of Two Airmen at War Over Germany by Stephen Harris
34.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: Very Good
They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily ...Show more
The Royal New Zealand Air Force: official history (reprint) by J. M. Ross
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Series: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 193
This Volume is the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War and was originally published in 1955 by the Department of Internal Affairs, Government of New Zealand. This is a reprint of that original title, which was printed in the United States of America 1993 with in a contractual arrange ...Show more