Fire and Fury - The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan by Randall Hansen
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city, killing approximately 400,000 Germans and 330,00 Japanese, the vast majority civilians. Fully 83,000 British, Commonwealth, and American airmen lost their lives, as well. A large number of these raids occurred when All ...Show more
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets- a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about th ...Show more
Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military history | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'There will never be a definitive life of Hitler. The subject is too vast, the man too contradictory and the sources unmanageable. But Volker Ullrich's biography comes as close as we can reaso ...Show more
Hunting the Nazi Bomb: The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon by Damien Lewis
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving' Evening Standard 'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival. An utterly compelling read' Bear Grylls From the ...Show more
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military history
The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thriller Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military history
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by Hastings David
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. 'He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Di ...Show more
Once upon a Time in Iraq by James Bluemel; Renad Mansour
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military history
In war, there is no easy victory. When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military history
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the fi ...Show more
Partisan: The Incredible True Story of a New Zealand Soldier Behind Enemy Lines by James Caffin
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War After a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Yugoslavia, John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where he join ...Show more