Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare by T. Mark McCurley
33.00 NZD
Category: Military
Hunter Killer is the first ever inside look at the US military's secretive remotely piloted aircraft program-equal parts techno-thriller, historical account and war memoir.Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the milit ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
55.00 NZD
Category: Military
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Devotion An Epic True Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
33.00 NZD
Category: Military
'Devotion' is the true story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo: Tomn Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. The two went on to fly and fight together in the early stages of the Korean war, before Brown was shot down.
Nazi Hunters by Damien Lewis
38.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds)
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
'The editors ...have cast their nets widely indeed. They have produced a volume that no-one with an interest in wars in which this country has become ensnared should miss reading. The book is a vast treasure trove of material'. - Otago Daily Times Warfare, both at home and abroad, has shaped the way New ...Show more
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) by Chris Roberts
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore by Harvey Broadbent
45.00 NZD
Category: Military
This book by Harvey Broadbent, a leading authority on the Gallipoli campaign and producer of the acclaimed ABC documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore, seeks to convey the story of Gallipoli to Australians of all ages. On 25 April, 1915, Allied troops stormed the cliffs of Gallipoli. Twenty-eight thousan ...Show more
Hell's Gates by Paul Collins
35.00 NZD
Category: Military
Alexander Pearce and seven of his fellow convicts escaped from gaol in 1822 into one of the most unique and beautiful places on earth - the Tasmanian wilderness. This classic Australian story details the men's attempt to free themselves from the most isolated of penal settlements in the world, only to f ...Show more
The Ottoman Defence Against the Anzac Landing, 25 April 1915 (#16 Australian Army Campaigns) by Mesut Uyar
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scr ...Show more
Lords of the Sky - Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16 by Dan Hampton
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World War I to toda ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
30.00 NZD
Category: 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
Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale
35.00 NZD
Category: Military
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze. Drawing o ...Show more