Desert Armour - Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk
$80.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most ...Show more
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
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
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
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
Escape from Germany by Neil Hanson
$26.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
It's July, 1918. The most heavily guarded POW camp in the world. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed-wire fences, patrolled by ferocious dogs and armed guards with orders to shoot to kill, Holzminden was a brutal punishment camp. To escape would take boundless ingenuity and nerves of steel. Many tr ...Show more
Escaping Hitler: The Freedom Trails by Monty Halls
$37.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Reading Level: very good
Some of the most extraordinary stories of courage and endurance in the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and American servicemen made the journey over the Pyrenees, the Slovenian mountains and the Italia ...Show more
F-111 Aardvark - General Dynamics' Variable-Swept-Wing Attack Aircraft by John Gourley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The General Dynamics F-111 was one of aviation history's most promising planes when it came out in the early 1960s. Despite a rocky service career, political changes in how the military acquired its weaponry, and the addition of too much new technology, the plane provided a credible frontline deterrent ...Show more
F-86A Sabre - Korea 1950-51 by Peter E. Davies; Gareth Hector (Illustrator); Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Dogfight Ser.
Strap in alongside the Sabre pilots as they experienced the world's first large-scale jet-vs-jet combats. Brought to life with innovative tactical artwork and dramatic first-hand accounts from the pilots themselves.The F-86A Sabre had entered USAF service in 1949, and in December 1950 three squadrons we ...Show more
F2H Banshee Units by Jim Laurier (Illustrator); Rick Burgess; Gareth Hector (Illustrator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Series: Combat Aircraft Ser.
A fully illustrated study of the extraordinarily successful early-generation jet, the F2H Banshee, a frontline aircraft that served with 27 US Navy and US Marine Corps squadrons and three Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) squadrons.The F2H Banshee was an extraordinarily successful early-generation jet that outl ...Show more