Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS by Tom Petch
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Ex-SAS Commander and award-winning filmmaker provides a fascinating, myth-busting story of the REAL origins of the SAS, for fans of Ben MacintyreThe Who Dares Wins Pioneers The origins story of the SAS is a myth. This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces came into existence. Sp ...Show more
Warsaw 1920: The War for the Eastern Borderlands by Steven J. Zaloga
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had the war spread into Germany, another great Europea ...Show more
Military Technology of World War One by Wolfgang Fleischer
80.00 NZD
Category: Military
Like any war before or since, the First World War formed the catalyst for a wealth of technical inventions with only one goal in mind: to inflict as much damage on the opponent as possible. No one would have dreamed that as a result of these new technologies, the death tolls on all sides would be so hig ...Show more
Ordnance - Equipping the British Army for the Great War by Philip Hamlyn Williams
52.00 NZD
Category: Military
In August 1914, Kitchener's 'Contemptible Little Army' was highly professional but small, equipped with only what they could carry - and they were facing a force of continental proportions, heavily armed and well supplied. The task of equipping the British Army was truly Herculean. Many able men had vol ...Show more
Polish Legions, 1914-19 by Johnny (ILT) Nigel; Shumate Thomas
27.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Men-at-Arms
Escaping Hitler - Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls
20.00 NZD
Category: Military
'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the ...Show more
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti_Nazi by Paul Kix
37.00 NZD
Category: Military
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring ex ...Show more
Air Force Blue by Patrick Bishop
37.00 NZD
Category: Military
In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop - author of bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys - explores the lives and wartime experience of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the airforce. To mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018. On 1 April 2018, the Royal A ...Show more
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Walter Urban and Friedich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walt ...Show more
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture (Film Ed) by Joshua Levine
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescue ...Show more
SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces by Anthony Middleton - Ant
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, accompanying the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins. Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best will succeed...Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) has an unparalleled reputation for soldiering excellence. Their skills and technique ...Show more