A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us by Marcus Brotherton
$32.00 NZD
Category: Military History
After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war... After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in "We Who Are Alive and Remain," author Marcus Brotherton presents a collection of remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy Company and how their w ...Show more
On The Wings Of History : Volume One The Beginning Of The Vintage Aviator Collection by Allan Udy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Over the past two decades the Second World War fighter aircraft of the Alpine Fighter Collection have been the mainstay of the world renown Warbirds Over Wanaka airshows. What many enthusiasts don't know (yet) is that for the past ten years there has been a collection of even older warbird aircraft quie ...Show more
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Highlights the ...Show more
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | 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
SAS Operation Storm by Roger Cole & Richard Belfield
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'How many are they?' The reply came in the finest traditions of accurate situation reporting, 'f***ing hundreds of them!' Marbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. Operation Storm is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the grea ...Show more
In Which They Served by Brian Lavery
$22.99 NZD
Category: Military History
During World War Two the Royal Navy had to expand more than sevenfold to counter numerous threats across the globe. To find officers for this force it had to move well outside its normal supply of boys trained from the age of 13. As a result yachtsmen were recruited and sent to sea, along with possible ...Show more
Mavericks: The Maverick Genius of Great Military Leaders by Robert Harvey
$32.99 NZD
$33.99 (2% off)
Category: Military History
In an age of backroom generals who command from far behind troop lines, it is often forgotten that wars have been won or lost by the personality and leadership of a maverick commander. In twelve riveting portrait, best-selling historian, Robert Harvey, explores the mind and the action of such men. From ...Show more
Anzac Fury: The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$42.99 NZD
$44.99 (4% off)
Category: Military History
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...Show more
Day After Day by Max Lambert
$44.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In his bestselling Night after Night, Max Lambert wrote about New Zealanders in Bomber Command. In this long-awaited companion volume, he features their daytime counterparts - fighter pilots who fought in Europe, Asia and the Pacific during World War Two. From the mid-1930s to 1945, young New Zealanders ...Show more
The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War I Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell by Jock Vennell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Major General Sir Andrew Russell commanded the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade at Gallipoli. He then went on to serve as commander of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front. He has been called 'the one military commander of genius that New Zealand produced in the twentieth century'. Yet his story remai ...Show more
Master Bombers : A Pathfinder Squadron at War 1944-45 by Sean Feast
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Formed in July 1942, the Pathfinder force was the corps d'elite of Bomber Command, tasked with marking targets and leading bomber formations to the right place at the right time. And the best of the force formed the crews of the master bombers, the aircraft in charge of the whole attack. It took nerves ...Show more