Operation Jericho - Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo Jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World ...Show more
The Devil's Bridge : The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
43.00 NZD
Category: Military
In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thr ...Show more
Long Shot - My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious assault and, street by street, ...Show more
Stalingrad 1942-43 (1) - The German Advance to the Volga by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended to achieve a decisive victory- Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that one army group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to ...Show more
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed inter ...Show more
Naval Battle of Crete 1941 - The Royal Navy at Breaking Point by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Accounts of history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics and battle experiences of the opposing forces throughout the crucial stages of each campaign, In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, the British Mediterranean Fleet was ordered to evacuate Allied survivors ...Show more
Vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-45 by Gavin Mortimer; Henry Morshead (Illustrator); Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustrator)
27.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Long Range Desert Group was one of the most famous special units of World War II, operating heavily modified vehicles deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence and support the raids of David Stirling's new Special Air Service.When war broke out, a pre-war explorer and army officer, Ralph Bagnol ...Show more
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
26.00 NZD
Category: Military
The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team t ...Show more
Stalingrad Airlift 1942-43 - The Luftwaffe's Broken Promise to Sixth Army by William E. Hiestand; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
39.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The story of what really led to Germany losing the battle of Stalingrad - the inability of the Luftwaffe to keep Sixth Army supplied throughout the winter of 1942-43 - and why this crucial airlift failed.Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering's failure to deliver his promise to keep Sixth Army supplied at Stal ...Show more