Standard of Power - The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century by Dan Van Der Vat
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial and compelling survey of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century by a widely praised modern historian. Dan van der Vat, author of authoritative bestselling books on the Titanic and the history of the submarine, has now produced an enthralling and thoroughly researched history of the Royal ...Show more
2017 War with Russia - An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command by Richard Shirreff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
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The Escape Artists - A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI by Neal Bascomb
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: good-very good
Summer, 1918: twenty-nine officers crawled into a 16 inch high, 55 metre tunnel dug only with spoons. This was the culmination of 9 months gruelling toil in oxygen-starved darkness. Of the twenty-nine escapees, just ten would make their way back to Britain. When captured Royal Flying Corps pilots Captai ...Show more
A Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946 - 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Division by George E McAvoy
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Real Enigma Heroes by Phil Shanahan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Espionage | Reading Level: very good
The capture of the Enigma codes helped shorten the Second World War by at least a year. Churchill took a special interest in the information that came out of Bletchley Park's Station X and he guarded his contact well so that the Germans would never find out the source.Without the quick actions of three ...Show more
Veterans 1944-2004 by Regis Colin; Francois Simon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: good-very good
RAF - An Illustrated History From 1918 by Roy Conyers Nesbit
$18.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Sutton Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the first ninety years of its existence as an independent air arm, the Royal Air Force has carved for itself a reputation second to none. Its achievements both in war and peace are legendary and read like a roll call of aviation milestones of the twentieth century. To mark the ninetieth anniversary o ...Show more
Defiance - The true story of the Bielski partisans by Nechama Tec (Professor emerita of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Stamford)
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 ...Show more
Someone has Blundered - Calamities of the British Army in the Victorian Age by Denis Judd
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
During Queen Victoria's long reign British power was at its zenith and almost every year saw British troops in actioin in some part of the globe. There were many victories but there were also disastrous occasions when the thin red line was broken, melted away, or was simply not there to begin with. Prof ...Show more
The Soldiers' Tale - Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Soldier's Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, a ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more