1914-1918 - An Eyewitness to War by Bob Carruthers
$10.00 NZD
$15.00 (33% off)
Category: First World War
Compiled by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this is a fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources reflecting often overlooked aspects of the Great War. The struggle for Verdun, the battles between Austro-Hungarian and Russian forces in the East, and the daily lif ...Show more
Kriegsmarine - The Illustrated History of the German Navy in WW II by Robert Jackson (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval History
Covering all classes of vessel, and all theatres of war, from the sorties into the Atlantic by the capital ships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the actions of the E-boats in the English Channel and the Mediterranean.
Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Wars of the Ages
The first instalment of the highly anticipated biography of Henry VIII, written by one of the UK's most popular, established and exciting historians. 'Henry: Virtuous Prince' is a radical re-evaluation of the monarchy's most enduring icon. Henry VIII was Britain's most powerful monarch, yet he was not b ...Show more
The Echo of Battle - The Army's Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military theory and general reference
Wars have defined the U.S. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of w ...Show more
Younghusband - The last great imperial adventurer by Patrick French
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers.Patrick French's award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the "damned rum name," who ...Show more
Uniforms of the Soldiers of Fortune by Leroy Thompson; Ken J. McSwan (Illustrator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medals and militaria
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin
$15.00 NZD
Category: War Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Freyberg's Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II by Noel (Wig) Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Tells of courageous acts by ordinary soldiers in inhuman conditions, moving with Freyberg's Circus from Alamein to Tunisia, North Africa. Illustrated with b&w photos.
War-Path and Bivouac: or The Conquest of the Sioux by John F. Finerty; Oliver Knight (Introduction by); Charles E. Rankin (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Empire Wars | Series: Western Frontier Library
War-Path and Bivouac is a stirring and detailed account of the Dakota Indian wars of 1876 and the Nez Perce Indian wars of 1877. John F. Finerty, a newspaper reporter with the Chicago Times, covered the action of George Crook's campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians and Nelson Miles ca ...Show more
Mark Of The Lion: The Story of Capt. Charles Upham V.C. & Bar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Vasily Grossman's masterpiece "Life and Fate" is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. "A Writer at War" is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts ...Show more
The Making of a Royal Marine Commando by nigel Foster
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Special Forces