A History of Weapons by John O'Bryan
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military
From butterfly swords to bo staffs, the only history of weapons you'll ever want. John O'Bryan hilariously explains weapons like the Bola, Atlatl, Khopesh, Aspis, Falx, Tomahawk, and Flaming Pigs (for real), while delivering real content about history, uses and badass potential. Stories about Attila the ...Show more
A History of the First World War by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
$24.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Liddell Hart's History of the First World War first appeared in 1930 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most cogent accounts of the conflict ever published. A leading military strategist and historian who fought on the Western Front, Liddell Hart combines astute tactical analysis with compas ...Show more
A History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
$24.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
First published in 1970, the year after his death, Liddell Hart's A History of the Second World War is a highly acclaimed account by one of the greatest military writers of the twentieth century. Providing searing insights and drawing on an unparalleled knowledge of tactics and strategy, it is the culmi ...Show more
A History of the World in 100 Weapons by Chris McNab
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
From the Roman gladius to the fearsome crossbow and the iconic AK-47, various weapons have played a huge role in shaping the history of humanity, becoming central to the creation and crushing of nations, the shaping countries and moulding the modern world. A History of the World in 100 Weapons tell the ...Show more
A Rifle & A Camera Wairarapa Soldiers Photograph the Great War
$29.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
A Sacrificial Pawn, being a Memoir of his War Experiences, Particularly of his Time as a Prisoner of the Japanese, 1942-1945 by Peter R Jackson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A Sacrificial Pawn is a story of survival. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of Wiorld War 2. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and w ...Show more
A Short History of World War II by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Military
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The Civil War in a classic compact hardcover format. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations ...Show more
A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War I by Emilio Lussu
$49.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals, in spare and detached prose, the ...Show more
A War of Empires - Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Drawing on over 30 years of ground-breaking research, best-selling author Robert Lyman expertly re-examines the so-called 'Forgotten War' in Burma, revealing it to be a ferocious clash of competing visions of empire, which would irrevocably change the future of both Britain and the Indian subcontinent f ...Show more
ANZAC Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
Every year on the 25th of April, thousands of New Zealanders get up very early in the morning to join dawn parade ceremonies around the country. Later, many more people attend Anzac Day services to commemorate the soldiers who died at Gallipoli in 1915 and to celebrate the spirit of the ANZACs.A rich hi ...Show more
ANZAC Memories by Don Donovan
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
A collection of evocative photographs and quotations honouring the memory of those who served in the First World War. A photographic journey through images and mateship.
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$12.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more