The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and Its Controversies by Glyn Harper & John Tonkin-Covell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Allied forces' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitter struggles on the Western Front. The name Cassino has become a touchstone for New Zealanders as a resul ...Show more
The Decisive Duel: Spitfire vs 109 by David Isby
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for supremacy of the skies. The Decisive Duel tells the stories of these iconic, classic aircraft and the people th ...Show more
Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II by Terry Crowdy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed, and combining military deceptions with the double-agent network run by the intelligence services, they were able to send the enemy inaccurate and misleading information about Allied troops, plans an ...Show more
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire by Robert Lyman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
On the night of 28 March 1942 the Royal Navy and British commandos assaulted the German-held French Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire in one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War. Their plan was simple: to drive an old destroyer packed with three tons of explosive at full speed into the outer ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps th ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Something ab ...Show more
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
First World War 4-Book Boxed Set by ERICH MARIA REMARQUE ROBERT G
$59.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This beautiful boxed set brings together four significant books about the First World War. It includes Robert Grave's great memoir Goodbye to All That, All Quiet on the Western Front, the finest novel by a contemporary, written from the point of view of a German soldier, Birdsong, Sebastian Faulk's mode ...Show more
Empires of the Dead - How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane
$44.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable and visionary man, Fabian Ware. Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were ...Show more
The Nazi Occult War by Michael Fitzgerald
$19.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A gripping account of the occult and magical thinking that dominated Nazi beliefs and actions in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. Intriguing subjects covered include the Vril Society, The New Teutonic Knights, Black Camelot, the Nazi 'Occuly Bureau', Atlantis and Aryan science ...Show more
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire, 1939 -1945 by Clare Campbell
$36.99 NZD
Category: Military History
What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not write memoirs, so to find the answer to that question, Clare Campbell went in search of voices of those people whose lives were entwined with animals. She found storie ...Show more