The Future of War by Lawrence Freedman
$65.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A new approach to ideas about war, from one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis of tec ...Show more
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
The Greatest Raid - St Nazaire, 1942: the Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Giles Whittell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times 'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sun ...Show more
Faces of the Few - The Battle for Survival in the Summer Of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
$79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalized by Churchill in August 1940 as 'The Few'.Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of people's daily lives, not least because of mobile phone came ...Show more
2SAS - Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II by Gavin Mortimer
$54.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS. For far too long Bill's crucial wartime role has been overshadowed by his more famous brother David Stirling. Gavin Mortimer, a world expert on the wartime SAS, offers a groundbr ...Show more
Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
$31.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...Show more
The Hill - The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete by Robert Kershaw
$44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of the individuals whose actions determined the outcome of the bat ...Show more
The War Underground 1914-18: Tactics and Equipment by Simon Jones; Adam Hook (Illustrator)
$36.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Elite Ser.
This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914-18. Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels an ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more