The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
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
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
The Shape of Battle - Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . . Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with sticks and stones or advanced technology, h ...Show more
Spitfire Faces - The Men and Women Behind the Iconic Fighter by Dilip Sarkar
$79.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Supermarine Spitfire arguably remains the most iconic fighter aircraft ever produced. Unsurprisingly, it has become a symbol of British excellence and national pride.Interest in the Spitfire remains undiminished as time goes on, and its bibliography is virtually infinite. while many of these books f ...Show more
Battle of Berlin 1943-44 - Bomber Harris' Gamble to End the War by Richard Worrall; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the controversial Battle of Berlin -- RAF Bomber Command's costly, brutal attempt to prove that strategic bombing alone could bring an end to World War II. Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomb ...Show more
Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic - A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke by Andrew Sangster
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim ...Show more
Vietnam - A War Lost and Won by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The book offers a comprehensive and balanced account of the emotive impact of the first media war, charting not only the course of the war in Vietnam, but also seeking to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective. Contains previously classified material on US offensive movements a ...Show more
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service by Tom Petch
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'Awesome!' ANDY McNAB | 'You must read this book' Colonel TIM COLLINS OBE | 'Extraordinary' Sir RANULPH FIENNESForget what you thought you knew. Discover the REAL story of how the SAS was created.From ex-SAS Commander Tom Petch, this is the never-before-told story of how the world's preeminent Special F ...Show more
Japan at War in the Pacific - The Rise and Fall of an Empire, 1869-1945 by Jonathan Clements
$44.99 NZD
Category: Military History
By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, an entire generation had grown up knowing nothing but conflict; but the transformation of Japan into a militarist power began decades earlier, with the toppling of the old samurai regime, and the rush of the formerly isolated nation onto the world stage. Jap ...Show more
Scramble! - The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J. R. D. Braham; J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II.Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker Hurricane and Bristol Blenheim. By 1939, the squadron ha ...Show more
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace - British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
$64.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept involves a steel rod - the 'spigot' - onto wh ...Show more