Churchill As a War Leader by Lamb
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Winston Churchill's leadership during World War II allowed Britain and Europe to escape the threat of a Nazi take-over. However, the author of this book claims that he also made serious blunders which he later tried to cover up and reveals secrets unmentioned in the official war histories.
'May You Never be Weary': Life on the North West Frontier of the Raj and Tamer Places by John Auret
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
John Auret was born on the North West Frontier of India, the son of a British Army officer stationed there. He expected to follow in his father's footsteps - but history would decree otherwise. After many adventures and skirmishes John rose to the rank of Major in the British Indian Army and also worked ...Show more
Live from the Battlefield : From Vietnam to Baghdad 35 Years in the World's War Zones by Peter Arnett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolif ...Show more
Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by HAMISH ROSS
$12.00 NZD
$15.00 (20% off)
Category: Biographies and memoirs
The definitive biography of Paddy Mayne, and the true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes. 'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander ...Show more
In Deadly Combat by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Modern War Studies
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theatre from 1941 to 1945, and this memoir of those years recaptures his gruelling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin.
Explaining Hitler - The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich
In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptical ...Show more
The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War I Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell by Jock Vennell
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Major General Sir Andrew Russell commanded the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade at Gallipoli. He then went on to serve as commander of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front. He has been called 'the one military commander of genius that New Zealand produced in the twentieth century'. Yet his story remai ...Show more
Gallipoli to the Somme - Recollections of a New Zealand Infantry Man by Aitken Alexander
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Wes ...Show more