Khrushchev's Cold War - The Inside Story of an American Adversary by Aleksandr Fursenko; Timothy Naftali
65.00 NZD
Category: Military
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In "Khrushchev's Cold War", Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic "One Hell of a Gamble", bring to life head-to-head confrontations between K ...Show more
Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq by Mark Urban
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
'The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily Mail Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse. Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General Stan McChrystal devised a campaign ...Show more
Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart ...Show more
The Hinge Factor - How chance and stupidity have changed history by Erik Durschmied
24.99 NZD
Category: Military
Red One : A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line by Kevin Ivison
30.00 NZD
39.00 (23% off)
Category: Military
The Last Post by Max Arthur
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
"Forgotten Voices of the Great War" was the surprise best-seller at Christmas 2002, selling over 60,000 copies in hardback alone. The formula was simple: Max Arthur interviewed some of the 30 surviving British soldiers from the First World War and combined their stories with other interviews in the Impe ...Show more
The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
60.00 NZD
65.00 (7% off)
Category: Military
Published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil WarThe civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a w ...Show more
Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II by Michael Veitch
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Fly is Michael Veitch's second collection of 24 interviews with pilots, navigators, and gunners--now all in their 80s--who flew during the Second World War. Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief, and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood ob ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War by Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
45.00 NZD
Category: Military
The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and n ...Show more
The Mascot (PB) by Mark Kurzem
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
As a 5 year old during WWII, Alex watched from a tree as his family was murdered. After managing to survive in the woods for months he was found by the Latvian SS. Despite discovering he was Jewish, the SS adopted him as a mascot and made him promise never to reveal his true identity. He did, until one ...Show more
Ross Kemp on Afghanistan by Ross Kemp
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Military
He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threatening ordeal, Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in England's subzero temp ...Show more