SAS Brothers in Arms - Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour. by Damien Lewis
37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Damien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and visionaries who made the SAS. Using hitherto untold stories and new archival sources, Damien Lewis follows one close-knit band of warriors from the SAS foundation through to the Italian landings - chronicl ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
Should We Fall to Ruin - New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds. by Harrison Christian
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as ‘hostages to fortune’, the little-known garrison on Australia’s tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the ou ...Show more
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad by Charles Kappe
35.00 NZD
Category: Military History
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign and food far more abundant. A total of 7,000 men, ap ...Show more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
24.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a persona ...Show more
Inferno: the True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History by Joe Pappalardo
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, ...Show more
The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
50.00 NZD
Category: Military History
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear- mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
The Sands of Dunkirk by Richard Collier
37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and James HollandMay 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found th ...Show more
The Fifth Act: America's End In Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
36.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacyElliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him in ...Show more
The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution by Chris DeRose
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stol ...Show more