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
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 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
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
Bristol Scout 1264 - Rebuilding Granddad's Aircraft by David Bremner
$69.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
In 1913, Frank Barnwell designed the Bristol Scout, which was the fastest and most manoeuvrable warplane for the first eighteen months of the First World War, and became the prototype single-seat fighter from which all later fighters were derived. As a result Barnwell became one of the seminal figures i ...Show more
British Fighter Aircraft in WWI - Design, Construction and Innovation by Mark C. Wilkins
$75.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Casemate Illustrated Special Ser.
World War I witnessed unprecedented growth and innovation in aircraft design, construction, and as the war progressed--mass production. Each country generated its own innovations sometimes in surprising ways--Albatros Fokker, Pfalz, and Junkers in Germany and Nieuport, Spad, Sopwith and Bristol in Franc ...Show more
Brothers in Arms - Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes by Geraint Jones
$37.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: .
Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of the brutal reality of war - every boring, scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.'If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?' Danny said. 'Your arms o ...Show more
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
$39.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
A close-up at the sharp end of armoured warfare This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - the sheer nerve-wracking tensi ...Show more
C-130 Hercules: Lockheed's Military Air Transport and Its Variants by DAVID DOYLE
$45.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been in continuous production for over six decades, longer than any other military aircraft in the world, and no end of production is yet in sight. The Hercules has been a part of US combat operations since Vietnam, and the airframe, which began life as a simple transport ...Show more