Hitler's War by Jeremy Harwood
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The first issue of Signal hit the newsstands in April 1940; the last appeared on 12 April 1945, just weeks before the Third Reich's surrender. As the Nazi empire expanded across Europe, the magazine's readership grew equally dramatically. By 1943, its circulation was around 2.5 million. Appearing like c ...Show more
Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two by Mark Felton
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
July 1945. Eighteen daring young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from the top-secret underwater warfare unit known as The Sea Devils prepare to undertake three simultaneous and incredibly risky missions against the Japanese. Using four brilliantly conceived XE-craft midget submarines, ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Turkish Defence - the Story from Turkish Documents by Harvey Broadbent
$94.99 NZD
Category: Military History
At the start of the 21st century both Australia and Turkey have grasped relevance to their national identities and ideals in the Gallipoli campaign. Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Gallipoli, the Turkish Defence is the first and only book to tell the complete story of this bitterly fought ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The longest campaign of the Second World War. The most destructive naval campaign in all history. An epic story that has never been fully told.The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to the defeat of the Germans in the Second World War. If the U-boats had prevailed, the mariti ...Show more
War at the End of the World: Douglas Macarthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942 - 1945 by James P. Duffy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wildern ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
The Invisible Cross: One Frontline Officer, Three Years in the Trenches, a Remarkable Untold Story by Andrew Davidson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Colonel Graham Chaplin, commander of the Cameron Highlanders, wrote letters from the trenches almost daily to the wife he had married just before the war began. Even if he had no time to write, he would at least send a postcard to reassure her he was 'Quite well'. These personal and loving letters give ...Show more
X Platoon by Steve Heaney, MC
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist. X Platoon had no b ...Show more
Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could spl ...Show more