To be a Paratrooper by Gregory Mast
49.99 NZD
Category: Military
First used extensively in World War II, the paratrooper is now an established part of military operations, and gives any airborne force a tactical edge. Inserted by air, the paratroopers can go to areas not accessible from the ground, forcing an army to spread it's defenses to protect areas normally saf ...Show more
Last Man Out by Robert Charles
19.99 NZD
Category: Military
Robert Charles was a machine-gunner on the USS Houston, sank by the Japanese in Sundra Straight in 1942. After swimming for nine hours, he was picked up off the Java coast by Japanese forces, and held for forty-three months in slave-labor camps. One of the few to survive the Burma-Thailand railway, Char ...Show more
Iwo Jima by Eric M. Hammel
90.00 NZD
Category: Military
Iwo Jima stands out as one of the hardest won battles of the United States Marines in World War II in the Pacific.
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce D. Gamble
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
At 2.30 am on January 23, 1942, the tropical island of New Britain was the site of the Australian Army's darkest hour. Lark Force had been deployed to fortify and defend Rabaul, the capital of Australia's mandated territories. The Japanese had other plans...
World War I by Hp Willmott
49.99 NZD
Category: Military
World War I was so terrible and so titanic a struggle that its memory haunts us still, even in the 21st century. No previous conflict had ever been as brutal or as vast in scale and its scars were so deep that it came to be known simply as "The Great War". The battles fought so ferociously on land, sea ...Show more
World War II by Robin Cross; Michael Paul (Contribution by); David Welch (Contribution by); H. P. Willmott; Charles Messenger; Richard Overy (Illustrator); Michael Barrett (Contribution by); Mark R. Grandstaff (Contribution by)
49.99 NZD
Category: Military
Decades on from when the last shot was fired, the battles may be fading from living memory, but the shock waves of WWII still resonate. This comprehensive history examines not just the many theatres of operations, but also provides a challenging analysis of the war's causes and momentous consequences - ...Show more
Arnhem Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 1945 by Lloyd Clark
32.99 NZD
Category: Military
An insightful and gripping account of the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, the river Rhine was a serious barrier to the advancing Allied armies in the West who were intent on charging Berlin and ending the war. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery decided to utilise the First Allied ...Show more
Down in the Drink by Ralph Barker
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
Among those who fought in the ferocious battles for the skies during the Second World War, some - shot down, or forced to ditch - had to confront an exceptionally pitiless enemy: the sea.Bown in the Drink tells the astonishing stories of nine aircrews who suffered this horrifying plight, from the captur ...Show more
Special Forces Heroes by Michael Ashcroft
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150 years. Often covert hit-and-run operations involving very small numbers of highly skilled men, those who partake in these missions know that their goals involve a hi ...Show more
The Honour and the Shame by John Kenneally
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
Many years after becoming the youngest person ever to be awarded the VC for attacking a company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own -- an action that proved a turning point in one of the major battles of the Second World War -- John Kenneally made an extraordinary confession. The courageous hero of the Iris ...Show more
Victoria Cross Heroes by Michael Ashcroft
31.99 NZD
Category: Military
"VC" tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earnt them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns ten per cent of all VCs ever awarded. He explains the history of the medal and the story of his fas ...Show more