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
Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Er ...Show more
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
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Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South C ...Show more
A Bridge Over - The Story of John Masters, Veteran Fighter by Allan Marriott
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2009, Christchurch In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was ...Show more
Shrapnel and Semaphore - My Grandfather\'s Diary of Gallipoli by Jan Chamberlin
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
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Blitzkrieg - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial Times This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
The Art of War by Tzu Sun
$8.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The ancient Chinese treatise of military strategy is now a business classic and here brought up to date by bestselling author and military scholar James Clavell. Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still reso ...Show more