With the Old Breed - The World War Two Pacific Classic by E B Sledge
$19.99 NZD
$38.99 (48% off)
Category: Overseas Military | Reading Level: very good
This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of th ...Show more
World War 1 Definitive Visual Diary by R. G. Grant; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
$44.99 NZD
$59.99 (25% off)
Category: Overseas Military
2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I -- DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial and design team, Wo ...Show more
World War I in Cartoons by Mark Bryant
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
In an age before TV and radio the impact and importance of cartoon art was immense, especially when the only sources of information were silent cinema newsreels, posters, newspapers and books - all largely black and white. The cartoon had an immediacy and universal accessibility, giving a message word ...Show more
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicolas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
$65.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
World War II: Infographics tells the story of the great conflict through graphic design. The mass of data available about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become extraordinarily complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way, and to share that analysis with the public. Info ...Show more
World War II Map by Map
$55.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Trace the epic history of World War 2 across the globe with more than 70 detailed maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. In this stunning visual history book, purpose-made maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the ato ...Show more
World War Two by Warner, Philip
$14.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
An accessible short history of the Second World War Until the official account of Second World War British Intelligence activities was published, myth, propaganda and misrepresentation had combined to confuse our view of the war. We did not - could not - fully understand what had happened, or why. The ...Show more
You Can't Let an Elephant Drive a Racing Car by Patricia Cleveland-Peck
$16.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: You Can't Let an Elephant...
'BRILLIANTLY FUNNY' - Abi Elphinstone on You Can't Take an Elephant on HolidayHave you ever seen a weightlifting wombat, or a figure-skating alligator?How about a pole-vaulting hippo, or an octopus . . . playing table tennis?Get ready for all sorts of hilarious animal antics in this side-splitting pictu ...Show more
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story by Damien Lewis
$14.99 NZD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Overseas Military
Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003 M Squadron - an SBS unit with SAS ...Show more
'to Force the Enemy off the Sea' - The Story of the RAF's North Coates Strike Wing by John Vimpany; David Boyd
$55.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
This is the story of the RAF anti-shipping Strike Wing based at North Coates in Lincolnshire, whose Beaufighters from 1943 attacked heavily defended German convoys transporting raw materials to Rotterdam. During a little-known but hard-fought two-year campaign, the Wing succeeded in forcing the enemy's ...Show more