Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45 by Robert Forsyth; Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
75.00 NZD
Category: Military
As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to the Reichsluftministerium (German Air Ministry) fo ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe by Frank Murphy
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 28,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 2 ...Show more
Kiwis in Conflict: A History of New Zealanders at War Revised and Updated by Christopher Pugsley; Laurie Barber; 93299210342009329921034200
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
Kiwis in Conflict is the story of New Zealand and New Zealanders at war from the mid-19th century to the present day. Originally published as Scars of the Heart, this new revised and updated edition examines the impact of war through the eyes of those involved using photographs, paintings, letters and d ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
In the Trenches of HellOn 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, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
Leyte Gulf - A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle by Mark Stille
55.00 NZD
Category: Military
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics. Leyte was ...Show more
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly detailed descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devasting account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death.Roberts Mason's war was supposed to bring the Viet Cong and the North Vietnames ...Show more
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 by Antony Beevor
30.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail whi ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
Zero Risk by Tony Loughran
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Keeping others safe in a dangerous world. We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determinatio ...Show more
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship. Such was the broken state of the nation in which ...Show more