US Soldier vs German Soldier: Salerno, Anzio, and Omaha Beach, 1943-44 by Chris McNab
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Combat Ser.
This absorbing study investigates the doctrine, training, equipment, and combat record of the US specialist beach-landing troops and their German opponents who fought over three bitterly contested amphibious beachheads in Europe at the height of World War II. During World War II, the US Army and its al ...Show more
Black Ops - Secret Military Operations by Nigel West
45.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Black Opsis a thrilling compendium of undercover warfare from around the world. Here you will meet the most hardened soldiers and operatives facing extraordinary dangers deep behind enemy lines. The book features many amazing stories from World War II, such as the assassination of Holocaust architect R ...Show more
Spitfire - The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The bestselling biography of the Spitfire updated with a new chapter for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry by Arthur Colin Wright
79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the entire panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books portraying the Tapestry and seeking to analyze its meanings. Yet, there is ...Show more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa - Stalingrad of the Pacific by Saul David
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Excellent' Antony BeevorFrom award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world. For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the isl ...Show more
The War for the Seas - A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley
89.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding
Topgun: The Real Story by Dan Pedersen
24.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When American fighter jets were being downed at an unprecedented rate during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy turned to a young lieutenant commander, Dan Pedersen, to figure out a way to reverse their dark fortune. On a shoestring budget and with little support, Pedersen picked eight of the finest pilots ...Show more
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable sto ...Show more
The Ratline - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: good-very good
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
36.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.