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Kiwis In Conflict: 200 Years of New Zealanders at War by Christopher Pugsley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military
First published as Scars on the Heart and based on the Auckland Museum's permanent exhibition of the same name, this is a rich and fascinating account of the impact of war through the eyes of those involved, using photographs, paintings, letters and diaries. This new edition has the latest information o ...Show more
Cockpits of the Cold War : Unprecedented Access to Once Top-secret Aircraft by Donald Nijboer & Dan Patterson (photos)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Military
Nijboer takes the reader inside the cockpits of the most revered and feared aircraft of the Cold War period, from 1947 to 1965. This book covers planes from the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, France and the Soviet Union including: The Mikoyan MiG-15 Soviet fighter flown by Kenneth Rowe ( ...Show more
Shots from The Front: The British Soldier 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy' (2003), of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes, one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Milita ...Show more
And the Band Played On by Robert Holden
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military
Cast aside all thoughts of computer-age technology and its resources for entertainment and try to imagine Australian life back in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the country was still enjoying its infancy as the world's youngest nation. This was a society in which families provided mu ...Show more
Soldier Sailor and Airman Too: The Fighting Life of Group Captain A. B. "Woody" Woodhall by Woody Woodhall
$50.00 NZD
Category: Military
Soldier, Sailor and Airman Too is a comprehensive history of the life and career of Group Captain A.B. Woodhall. His story provides a unique slice of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Airforce history, spanning both World Wars and finishing in New Zealand. Not only can his story be read as a biography ...Show more
Echoes of Gallipoli: In the Words of New Zealand's Mounted Riflemen by Terry Kinloch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military
First published ten years ago to enthusiastic reviews and critical acclaim, this classic celebrated readable scholarship is now available in paperback. Using their letters and diaries, Echoes of Gallipoli tells the story of Gallipoli through the eyes of the men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ...Show more
Total War: From Stalingrad to Berlin by Michael Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military
In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader and fough ...Show more
Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars by David Green
$41.00 NZD
Category: Military
The New Zealand Wars of the nineteenth century still cast a long shadow over the twenty-first. Three decades of fighting across much of the North Island ensured Pakeha rule, but also enabled Maori survival. This guidebook, heavily illustrated with photographs, artwork and maps, takes you on a journey of ...Show more
World War II by Robin Cross; Michael Paul (Contribution by); David Welch (Contribution by); H. P. Willmott; Charles Messenger; Richard Overy (Illustrator); Michael Barrett (Contribution by); Mark R. Grandstaff (Contribution by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Military
Decades on from when the last shot was fired, the battles may be fading from living memory, but the shock waves of WWII still resonate. This comprehensive history examines not just the many theatres of operations, but also provides a challenging analysis of the war's causes and momentous consequences - ...Show more
March to the Sound of the Guns by Ray Grover
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military
During World War I New Zealand shipped one hundred thousand young men halfway round the world to fight at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Eighteen thousand were killed - a death rate of nearly one in five. Thousands more were maimed physically and emotionally. The men had gone with the encouragement of ...Show more
Fatal Decision by Carlo D'Este
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II by an author whose previous books on the Normandy and Sicily campaigns have been hailed as masterful. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio was a small resort and port ...Show more
World War 2: A Complete Photographic History by Hal Buell
$70.00 NZD
Category: Military
World War II: A Complete Photographic History presents a simultaneous documentary view of every theatre of the war, from the steppes of Russia to the jungles of Malaysia and the Solomons; from the freezing cold of the northernmost fjords to the scorching sands of the Libyan desert; from the bunkers of t ...Show more
