The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more
Alamein by Stephen Bungay
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Written for the 60th Anniversary of the battle. For Great Britain there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. There, in October 1942, in a remote part of the desert between Libya and Egypt, at a place named only for the sake of its non ...Show more
From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malaya and Borneo 1949-1966 by Christopher Pugsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Other Wars
This is a story of New Zealand's involvement in two forgotten wars as seen through the personal accounts of the New Zealanders, both men and women who were there. It is an unknown story of New Zealand's first significant contact with Asia and one which shaped New Zealand's understanding, as well as havi ...Show more
Fernleaf Cairo: The Fascinating Story of New Zealanders in Wartime Egypt by Alex Hedley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 17 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country's permanent overseas base during World War Two. By 1945 the c ...Show more
Unbroken by Wr Beecroft
$29.99 NZD
Category: Second World War
It is 1941, and the German High Command has sent General Irwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps to bolster the faltering Italian ground forces in North Africa and take over the beleaguered fortress of Tobruk. The defenders hang on grimly, but prisoners are taken on both sides in the ebb and flow of battle. I ...Show more
NZSAS: The First Fifty Years by Ron Crosby
$50.00 NZD
Category: Special Forces
NZSAS: The First Fifty Years is the first and only official history of New Zealand's elite Special Forces, the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS). From their first ever engagements in the jungles of Malaya in 1956, through to the Vietnam War and on to modern conflicts in East Timor and Afghanistan, ...Show more
Wellington's Smallest Victory : The Duke, the model maker and the secret of Waterloo by Peter Hofschroer
$20.00 NZD
$25.00 (20% off)
Category: Napoleonic Wars
'A first-class work of historical investigation.' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and Wellington The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington. 'A book that sh ...Show more
Contested Ground : Te Whenua I Tohea - The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881 by Kelvin Day; Puke Ariki (Library and museum) Staff (Contribution by); TSB Community Trust Staff (Contribution by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Wars
The first shots were fired on Wiremu Kingi's Te Kohia pa on 17 March 1860, marking the start of twenty-one years of direct conflict between Maori and Pakeha in the Taranaki region interspersed with periods of uneasy peace, culminating in the invasion of the Parihaka settlement on 5 November 1881. In Con ...Show more