World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicholas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, World War II: Infographics offers a new approach by telling the story of the co ...Show more
Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
42.99 NZD
Category: Military History
An engaging and detailed study of Winston Churchill's career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain's colonial wars, through his battlefield experience in World War I to his strategic command in World War II. This book examines how in high office he got it both right and wrong.Fr ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
The Spoils of War - Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Why Does America Go to War?In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. ...Show more
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Duigan's Circus by Peter Cooke
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Merlin : the Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster by Graham Hoyland
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of artistry and problem-solving that resulted in a war-winni ...Show more
The Nazi Menace - Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War by Benjamin Carter Hett
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War--a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessit ...Show more
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War? A Times Book of the Year 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' - Dominic Sandbrook In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis force ...Show more
Defiant - The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
''Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its crews is overlooked in standard accounts. To advanc ...Show more
Voices of World War II - New Zealanders Share Their Stories by Renee Hollis (Editor)
69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Voices of World War II is a visually captivating compendium of photographs and written accounts, providing a snapshot of life during World War II from the point of view of those who lived through us. Fascinating and genuine, it shows the human side of war through dozens of first-hand accounts, memories ...Show more