The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
$32.00 NZD
Category: Military History
'Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times) The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of ...Show more
Anzac Fury: The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$42.99 NZD
$44.99 (4% off)
Category: Military History
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...Show more
The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War I Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell by Jock Vennell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Major General Sir Andrew Russell commanded the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade at Gallipoli. He then went on to serve as commander of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front. He has been called 'the one military commander of genius that New Zealand produced in the twentieth century'. Yet his story remai ...Show more
Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodríguez (Illustrator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A concisely detailed guide to the Allied tanks that fought from D-Day to the breakout from Normandy, their qualities, numbers, and performance, and how they were used on the battlefield. When Allied tanks began to roll off the landing craft on D-Day, it marked the start of one of the great periods of t ...Show more
Emergency in Malaya - Soldiers, Spies and Victory in the Dying Days of Empire, 1948-1960 by Martin Pearce
$48.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the Malayan Emergency remains a relatively unknown yet fascinating part of twentieth-century history. It represents the last real military victory led by Britain in the dying years of the British Empire - and its political aspects still resonate in the world today. From the inauspicious cir ...Show more
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Through compelling eye-witness testimony and renowned historian James Holland's expert analysis Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe from the powerful perspective of one of the greatest tank regiments- the Sherwood Rangers. From the bestselling author of Normandy ...Show more
Devils on Horses : In the Words of Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19 by Terry Kinloch
$24.99 NZD
$55.00 (54% off)
Category: Military History | Reading Level: Very Good
'Devils on Horses is a very important book for New Zealanders, and for those who read military history. We now have an account of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in Sinai and Palestine that at last does justice to their story. This was perhaps the finest body of New Zealanders ever to serve overs ...Show more
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground by Jonathan Steele
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the context of the Soviet war and even the British imperial wars that preceded them, and draw the lessons out, ...Show more
Men of Valour: New Zealand & the Battle for Crete by Ron Palenski
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
For a time in the Second World War, Crete was the prize both sides wanted. The Allies had it and the Germans wanted it. The Germans won. The man in charge of hanging on to it was Bernard (Tiny) Freyberg, the New Zealand Divison commander who was made the Greek island s intended saviour. With him was a r ...Show more
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines by David Edgerton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of "Britain's War Machine". The history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few' and the Blitz, of boffins, flying machines, ama ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps th ...Show more
Anzac by Aberhart Laurence
$45.00 NZD
$60.00 (25% off)
Category: Military History
This impeccably produced hardback volume features large-format reproductions of 72 photographs by leading New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart. They provide an almost-comprehensive record of fifty New Zealand ‘Digger’ memorials (those featuring statues rather than abstract sculpture), and a repres ...Show more