Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Military
Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. Providing eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories ...Show more
Dunkirk : Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
13.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jaroslav Hasek's black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve ...Show more
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
Fight to Win: Deadly Skills of the Elite Forces by Chris Ryan
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
The mysterious world of elite combat units blown wide open...Find out how elite teams prepare for Close Quarter Battle. Discover how they launch assaults against pirate boats. Learn the secrets to directing air attack against a key intelligence target. Read how units manage to enter hostile territory un ...Show more
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In "The Forever War", award-winning "New York Times" correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed ...Show more
Highway to Hell by John Geddes
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Military
"Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Anman to Baghdad along the Fallujah bypass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. Its' the most dangerous trunk route in the world used as a personal, fairground shooting gallery by insurgents and Islamists with rocket propelled grenades and Kalashnikovs. For ne ...Show more
Beyond Band of Brothers : The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches and reach the solid gr ...Show more
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
39.00 NZD
Category: Military
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South C ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur
28.00 NZD
Category: Military
A landmark book using unique Imperial War Museum archive material, in which the story of WWI is told in the words of the men who were there.In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewin ...Show more
The Originals by Gordon Stevens
25.00 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Military
A military history exclusive - the most important book ever written about the SAS in the words of its founding members. 'We've been approached something like 25 times since the war. I kicked each out the window because they weren't going to make it with the integrity we require the story of the SAS to ...Show more
SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, on Land or Sea by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
14.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Collins GEM
The bestselling compact guide on how to survive in the wild, in any climate, on land or at sea. This updated edition contains all the latest techniques on survival training and timeless advice from the foremost expert in survival, Lofty Wiseman. All of it is rooted in the training techniques of the Spec ...Show more