The Operators by Michael Hastings
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was livin large. Loyal staff liked to call him a 'rock star'. During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional Allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michael ...Show more
The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War | Reading Level: very good
This is an astonishing eyewitness account of the life of Hitler, compiled for one man's eyes only: those of Joseph Stalin. On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on 2 May 1945, Soviet troops captured two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Heinz Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensch ...Show more
Blue Man Falling by Frank Barnard
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
In September 1939, World War Two is declared and Europe holds its breath. When will the Third Reich strike west across France and the Low Countries? For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe, the next ordering champa ...Show more
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale: A Survivor's Tale by Rick Victor;Stroud Gregg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Soldier, Spy is the astonishing memoir of one ordinary man and soldier, Victor Gregg, as he resumes civilian life after the Second World War. As for so many others, picking up where he had left off proved far from simple for Gregg; he had fought many battles, lost many friends and been deeply damaged ps ...Show more
Judy - A Dog in a Million - The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War by Damien Lewis
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her. Viewed largely as human by those who shared her extraordinary life, ...Show more
Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering by Tony Geraghty
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
The vast expansion of commercial and politicised warfare - in the wake of the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq - is examined in this enthralling, highly controversial book. The freelance soldier, whether fighting for money or an adopted case, has always been a fascinating but little understood phenomeno ...Show more
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the ...Show more
The Devil's Own War
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Herbert Hart’s diary is an unrivalled and gripping account of life on the front lines of the First World War. Hart commanded the Wellington Battalion during the closing stages of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign and went on to serve as a commander on the Western Front for two brutal years. One of the m ...Show more
Frigates & Submarines World Encyclopedia of Destroyers by Ireland Bernard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
This expertly researched volume focuses on the history of destroyers, frigates and submarines. Country-by-country directories cover the key chronological stages of each vessel, including full technical information and specification details such as origin, length, displacement, speed, armament, propulsio ...Show more
D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
<p>On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. <br ...Show more
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
"Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media si ...Show more
War Junkie by Jon Steele
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Living for the adrenalin rush which comes as bullets fly around your head and bombs explode at your feet, Jon Steele worked as an ITN cameraman. He filmed scenes of brutality and suffering in Georgia, Moscow, Rwanda, Zaire and Bosnia, before finally realising he had seen and filmed too much.