Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: very good
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Er ...Show more
Battle of Britain: A Summer of Reckoning by Alfred Price
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Dr. Alfred Price, who is a recognized and respected authority on the Battle of Britain, recounts the story of the conflict, both in terms of the strategic and tactical battle between two mighty air forces of the day and the fascinating and often traumatic human element as the civilians of Britain faced ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Reading Level: near fine
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable sto ...Show more
Battle of Malta - June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
A detailed exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees. On 11 June 1940, the British crown colony of Malta - which dominated the central Mediterranean and all-important sea routes to and from Nort ...Show more
Berry Boys: Portraits of World War One Soldiers and Families by Michael Fitzgerald & Claire Regnault
$52.99 NZD
$54.99 (3% off)
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: near fine
A powerful book of portraits, offering an extraordinary, evocative snapshot of New Zealanders facing the First World War. Berry & Co was a Wellington photographic studio in the early twentieth century. In the 1990s, a tenant of 147 Cuba Street, Wellington, discovered around 3,000 glass plate negativ ...Show more
Billy: My Life As A Teenage POW by Lynette Silver, Billy Young
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Billys Story: My Life as a Teenage POW has been compiled from a personal chronicle penned by Billy Young throughout the 1970s, supplemented by hundreds of conversations that Lynette and Billy have shared in the course of their close friendship spanning more than two decades. It is the only first-hand pu ...Show more
Black Ops - The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado
$39.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence A ...Show more
Bloody April 1917 - The Birth of Modern Air Power by James S. Corum; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The air campaign that supported the Anglo-French 1917 spring offensive became known as 'Bloody April' for its human cost. But it was also a turning point in air power history: not only was it the first air campaign to be fought in a modern, integrated style, but the Allies' death toll spurred dramatic c ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$37.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
Bloody Gallipoli: The New Zealanders' Story by Richard Stowers
$79.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: very good
This is a book that clearly and conscisely sets out New Zealand's involvement from the first declaration of war until the final exacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Detailed within are the battles that have long haunted New Zealand military history such as the Daisy Patch, Hill 60 and, of course, Chun ...Show more
Bravo Kiwi: New Zealand Soldiers, Afghanistan and the Battle of Baghak by Craig Wilson
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
Major Craig Wilson is a decorated former SAS member, and has been in more combat zones than any other Kiwi soldier. He was the commanding officer of Bravo Company, which lost 2 soldiers when they went to the aid Afghan police at Baghek in August 2012. Craig was left injured, shot in the shoulder, and wa ...Show more
Brief History Of The British Army by Jock Haswell, John Lewis-Stempel
$19.99 NZD
$27.99 (28% off)
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Brief Histories
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the batt ...Show more