Cinderella Boys - The Forgotten RAF Force That Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Leo McKinstry
$70.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-boats and made Allied victory possible. In early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the ...Show more
Buccaneer Boys 2 - More True Tales by Those Who Flew the 'Last All-British Bomber' by Graham Pitchfork
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Boys Ser.
Following the critically acclaimed publication eight years ago of Buccaneer Boys, long--serving Buccaneer navigator Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has now followed up the great success of the book with more true tales from those who flew the last all--British bomber. Thirty Buccaneer 'Boys', drawn from ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Short Stirling - RAF Heavy Bomber in World War II by Ron Mackay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
Introduced in 1941, the Short Stirling was the Royal Air Force's first four-engine heavy bomber of the Second World War. However, early on, the Stirling's performance was compromised by several issues: a reduced wingspan, which resulted in serious limitations on maximum altitude capability; the two-stag ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
Duigan's Circus by Peter Cooke
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In 1915 the most destructive war ever was consuming Europe. Responding to the call, New Zealand sent a mine-warfare unit to fight the siege for civilisation. “So fierce was this struggle,” Dr Ian McGibbon ONZM says in his Foreword, “that the inexperienced New Zealand tunnellers were initially knocked of ...Show more
Spitfire Faces - The Men and Women Behind the Iconic Fighter by Dilip Sarkar
$79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Supermarine Spitfire arguably remains the most iconic fighter aircraft ever produced. Unsurprisingly, it has become a symbol of British excellence and national pride.Interest in the Spitfire remains undiminished as time goes on, and its bibliography is virtually infinite. while many of these books f ...Show more
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace - British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
$64.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept involves a steel rod - the 'spigot' - onto wh ...Show more
Battle of Berlin 1943-44 - Bomber Harris' Gamble to End the War by Richard Worrall; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the controversial Battle of Berlin -- RAF Bomber Command's costly, brutal attempt to prove that strategic bombing alone could bring an end to World War II. Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomb ...Show more
Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic - A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke by Andrew Sangster
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim ...Show more
Vietnam - A War Lost and Won by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The book offers a comprehensive and balanced account of the emotive impact of the first media war, charting not only the course of the war in Vietnam, but also seeking to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective. Contains previously classified material on US offensive movements a ...Show more