Bitter Ocean by David Fairbank White
35.99 NZD
39.99 (10% off)
Category: Military
David White's meticulously researched and brilliantly told account of the Battle of the Atlantic is the first to assess this crucial theatre of the Second World War from the viewpoint of all the protagonists: Germany, USSR, USA, Canada and, above all, the UK. Packed with first-hand testimony from seam ...Show more
Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line by Kevin Ivison
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
When two of his colleagues are killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, young bomb disposal officer Kevin Ivison is called in to defuse a second even deadlier bomb just a hundred yards from the bodies of his friends. To make things worse, the entire area is under fire from snipers, and a crowd of angry Iraqis ...Show more
The Spitfire: Icon of a nation by Ivan Rendall
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Designed to be the best fighter in the world the creators of the Spitfire married science, technology and art to create both 'a thing of beauty' and a deadly weapon that changed the course of the war. 'You don't just strap yourself in, you buckle the Spitfire on, like girding on armour...'Squadron Leade ...Show more
Wings on My Sleeve by Eric Brown
31.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Phoenix Press Ser.
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on ...Show more
Debs at War by Anne De Courcy
27.99 NZD
Category: Military
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to cust ...Show more
Last of the Few by Max Arthur
45.00 NZD
Category: Military
After the fall of France to the German army in May 1940, Hitler set his sights on the invasion of Britain. Within weeks he had a vast battle fleet ranged along the French coast. But his biggest obstacle was the small and under-resourced Royal Air Force. Hitler knew that he must gain control of the skies ...Show more
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Dambusters raid is an unforgettable event in British military history and has passed into legend. On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dusk at RAF Scampton. Their brief was to fly at night across occupied Europe and drop specially designed 'bouncing' bombs at a mere 60 fee ...Show more
Dambusters : A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Military
DoP - November 2008 - United Kingdom On the 17th May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial and heavily defended dams deep in the heart of Germany. The raiders would have ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic by Marc Milner
27.99 NZD
Category: Military
World War II was only a few hours old when the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of the Second World War and the most complex submarine war in history, began with the sinking of the unarmed passenger liner Athenia by the German submarine U30. Based on the mastery of the latest research and wr ...Show more
Tank Action by George Forty
56.99 NZD
Category: Military
The technology that separates the lumbering Heavy Mk I tank of 1916 from the Challenger main battle tank of 1994 may be aeons apart, but the basic skills of the tank commander have remained unchanged. Whether the scenario is the first tank-versus-tank engagement at Villers-Bretonneux in 1918, or the dec ...Show more
Barefoot Soldier by Johnson Beharry
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
'As I pull myself out of the hatch four or five rounds ricochet off the front of the Warrior. My God, some bastard is targeting me. I drop back down into my seat. My hands are shaking. My breath is coming in short gasps. If I sprint through the bullets and throw myself over the barrier, I say to myself, ...Show more
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
SKUNK WORKS is the true story, told for the first time, of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a high-stakes drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf W ...Show more