SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story by Damien Lewis, Des Powell
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Iraq. January 1991. The opening hours of The Gulf War. Bravo Two Zero: we all know the story thanks to Andy McNab. Deploying on foot, they were fatally compromised, five getting captured, three being killed and only one making a daring getaway.But there was Bravo Three Zero: they deployed with vehicles ...Show more
The Last Survivor - The miraculous true story of the holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps by Frank Krake
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly turns into a horror story about man's inhumanity to man...Important and unforgettable' Jonathan Dimbleby, bestselling authorPerfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Ta ...Show more
Spitfire Women Of World War II by Giles Whittell
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II – mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of 1 ...Show more
Operation Vengeance - The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II by Dan Hampton
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it. -Lynn Vincent The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who ma ...Show more
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941 by Peter Harmsen
35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
25.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's ...Show more
Hunt the Bismarck - The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A ground-breaking narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship Bismarck.Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent ...Show more
Dead Reckoning - The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor by Dick Lehr
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as Operation Vengeance -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. "AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DR ...Show more
The Pathfinders: The Greatest Untold Story of the Air War Against the Nazis by Will Iredale
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Dark low-level raids, dodging anti-aircraft flak to make pinpoint-accurate drops - the incredible story of ordinary men and women who took to the skies to mark bomb targets inside Hitler's GermanyThe Pathfinders were the crack team that transformed the hit rate in the RAF's Bomber Command from 24% in Au ...Show more
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
57.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Established in June 1940, as the brainchild of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) allowed the British Army to gain a crucial advantage in the North African Front of World War II. Traversing great swathes of the desert that ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
Blazing Star, Setting Sun - The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942-March 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
32.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A masterful account of a vital four months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, a key turning point in both the Pacific Theater and the wider Second World War. From popular Pacific Theater expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful ...Show more