Dunkirk by Julian Thompson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. When the Germans invaded, the BEF found themselves in mortal danger thanks to the collapse of the French army on one flank and the Belgian on another. Ill-equipped and under-trained, th ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$30.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would ne ...Show more
Dunkirk - Retreat to Victory by Julian Thompson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. Ill-equipped and under-trained, they fought hard for three weeks, from the German invasion of France to the rescue of the last British troops from the beaches at Dunkirk. Remarkably, th ...Show more
Early German Aces of World War I by Greg VanWyngarden
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Fokker Eindeckers were the world's first true fighter aircraft, and their use had an impact on Allied morale and tactics far beyond their actual success. The first German aces who flew these aircraft, particularly Immelmann and Boelcke, became household words in Germany and in Allied countries alike ...Show more
Early Pacific Raids 1942 - The American Carriers Strike Back by Brian Lane Herder; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of December 1941, the Allies found themselves reeling with d ...Show more
Eclipse by Alan Moorehead
$37.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.With a new introduction by James Holland___________________________________Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to ...Show more
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
'If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task.'So goes the bomb technician's prayer before every bomb he defuses.For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four mont ...Show more
Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World by Brian Lavery
$54.99 NZD
Category: Military
For four centuries, the Navy made Britain the most powerful nation on earth - the true ruler of the waves. But its impact goes way beyond battles on the high seas. This new book, a tie-in to a major BBC TV series presented by Dan Snow, is written by one of the nation's foremost naval historians, and tel ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Elite Forces in the Second World War: Paratroops, Commandos, Rangers, Waffen-SS by Michael E Haskew
$34.99 NZD
$65.99 (46% off)
Category: Military
World War II saw elite units take a prominent role on the battlefield for the first time. The Encyclopedia of Elite Forces in the Second World War is a wide-ranging guide to the excellent units on land, sea or in the air whose success was usually hard- won against the odds, and whose actions had an impa ...Show more
Enduring Vietnam - An American Generation and Its War by James Wright
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse the mist ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but ...Show more