War: What is it Good for?: The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morr ...Show more
The Sabotage Diaries by Katherine Barnes
35.00 NZD
Category: Military
Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction. The Satotage Diaries tells the WWII story of Allied engineer Tom Barnes, who was parachuted behind enemy lines i ...Show more
Dark Journey - Passchendale, the Somme and the New Zealand Experience on the Western Front by Glyn Harper
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Definitive account of three key NZ battles of the Western Front, WWI. This significant volume represents the culmination of over seven years' writing and research by esteemed military historian Glyn Harper. The book includes the revision and reissuing of his two earlier detailed histories of the New Zea ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
27.00 NZD
Category: Military
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found th ...Show more
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Jon Stallworth
37.00 NZD
Category: Military
Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poet ...Show more
24 Hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815 by Robert J. Kershaw
39.00 NZD
Category: Military
'One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me with his sword as he walked by. Immediately after, another, with his firelock and bayonet, gave me a terrible plunge, and while doing it with all his might, e ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
25.00 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: Military
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
Fifty Weapons That Changed the Course of History by Joel Levy
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating and beautifully presented guide to the arms and armaments that have had the greatest impact on the development of human civilization.
No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G. Malone by John Crawford & Peter Cooke (Editors)
50.00 NZD
Category: Military
Perhaps the greatest leader of men during the Gallipoli campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone was commanding officer of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He is probably the best-known individual from that ill-fated campaign, a result both of his humanity a ...Show more
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver
28.00 NZD
Category: Military
This is the New York Times bestseller. With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even scratched the surface of ho ...Show more
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line ...Show more