1000 Days on the River Kwai - The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant by Cary Owtram
$59.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for a moving reading but Colonel Owtram's account of his years of captivity has a special significance.After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway, he was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chung ...Show more
51 Lessons from the Sky - US Air Force by Fletcher McKenzie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
61 Lessons from the Sky - Military Helicopters by Fletcher McKenzie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Military HelicoptersRead the lessons learned from near misses by experienced military pilots. Their lessons could save your life.Get the lessons from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom with crews featured from the RAF, RCAF, RAAF, UK ARMY, USAF, USCG, USN, US ARMY, and USMC. Le ...Show more
71 Lessons from the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Lessons from the Sky Ser.
A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich
$27.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
A unique civilian's eye-view of World War I, depicting, through heartfelt letters from an American woman, a fascinating before and after picture of a French community in disarray"What looked impossible is evidently coming to pass . . . I silently returned to my garden and sat down. War again! This time ...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
Air Marshal Sir Keith Park - Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta by Murray Rowlands
$49.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to 'The Few', victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park.He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured ...Show more
Air War Market Garden: Shrinking Perimeter by Martin Bowman
$19.99 NZD
$89.99 (77% off)
Category: Overseas Military
The third volume of this four-part series on Operation 'Market-Garden' in September 1944 draws on many individual soldiers and airmen's narratives to tell the story of the ongoing fight to keep the Hell's Highway' open to relieve 1st Airborne at Arnhem, and the brave attempts to re-supply them from the ...Show more
Air War 'Market Garden' So Near and Yet So Far by Martin W. Bowman
$19.99 NZD
$89.99 (77% off)
Category: Overseas Military
This is the second volume in a meticulously researched four-part series that provides a comprehensive insight into the aerial exploits at Operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944. In an interesting method of presenting the information, the author's arrangement of British, American, Dutch and German p ...Show more
Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics by Philip MacDougall
$59.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing the resulting lessons. Attention in Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighte ...Show more
Avro Lancaster by Jarrod Cotter; Paul Blackah
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Haynes Icons Ser.
During the Second World War, RAF Lancaster bombers took the conflict into the very heart of Hitler's Third Reich, and flew some of the most daring operations of the war. Surprisingly, of the 7,377 Lancasters built, only two survive today, one in Britain and one in Canada. Produced with the full coopera ...Show more
Battle of Britain: A Summer of Reckoning by Alfred Price
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Dr. Alfred Price, who is a recognized and respected authority on the Battle of Britain, recounts the story of the conflict, both in terms of the strategic and tactical battle between two mighty air forces of the day and the fascinating and often traumatic human element as the civilians of Britain faced ...Show more