Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the Soviet Union by almost four million men of Nazi G ...Show more
Barbarossa by Stewart Binns
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.Sunday June 22nd 1941: 6 million Nazi troops marched on Moscow, with a brutal scorched-earth tactic that saw millions of Soviet citizens massacred. ...Show more
Gallipoli: the Scale of our War by Puawai Cairns; Michael Keith; Christopher Pugsley; Richard Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which almost 3000 New Zealanders lost their lives. Jus ...Show more
Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm by John Nichol
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude. ‘We were doing about 620 miles-per-hour, 200 feet above t ...Show more
Collins Classics: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
$12.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Collins Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
‘Opportunities multiply as they are seized.’ Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focusing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very care ...Show more
Saving Private Sarbi: The True Story of Australia's Canine War Hero by Sandra Lee
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Saving Private Sarbi is the dramatic and heart-warming true story of a scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable. This canine warrior went missing in action following a historic battle between the elite SAS ...Show more
Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
$59.99 NZD
$85.00 (29% off)
Category: Military History
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experien ...Show more
The First World War by Ammonite Press
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: In Pictures
This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a look at the legacies of the war, including the establishment of the United Nations and the European Union. The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in hu ...Show more
Wars That Never End by Ian Ferguson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This book examines the effects of combat stress on the family lives of past and present war veterans. A high proportion of those who served in Afghanistan have committed suicide since returning to civilian life. Partners and family members also suffer, in their shared lives with emotionally scarred war ...Show more
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the strength of the Cretan ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more