The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
$8.00 NZD
Category: War
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
$10.00 NZD
Category: War | Reading Level: good
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, "The Things They Carried" is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. "The Things They Carried" depicts the men of Alpha ...Show more
State Of Emergency
$8.00 NZD
Category: War
3 AM on a frozen winter’s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London’s most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain’s most powerful new politician. In a nation threatened by extremist jihad ...Show more
Simon & The Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
$12.00 NZD
Category: War
A novel in which a young Swedish man called Simon embarks on a quest to discover who he really is, one which takes him through the privations of World War II, through his military service, and through a destructive relationship with his Jewish friend Isak, recently freed from a concentration camp. F ...Show more
Across the Blood-Red Skies by Robert Radcliffe
$8.00 NZD
Category: War
Spring 1917. The average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. After weeks in the thick of it, George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps, is living on borrowed time, watching in horror as a succession of comrades are shot down, burned, maimed a ...Show more
Miracle at St Anna by James McBride
$10.00 NZD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
Based on an unspeakable massacre at the site of St Anna Di Stazzema and the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers in World War II, this is the story of four American negro soldiers and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.
Nocturne by Diane Armstrong
$14.00 NZD
Category: War
In Warsaw in 1939, Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. The outbreak of war shatters her hopes and illusions, and destroys her trust in those she loves. When her father is arrested by the SS, and her mother is accused of being Jewish, she is forced to live in ...Show more
When Eight Bells Toll
$6.00 NZD
Category: War
When Eight Bells Toll : Millions of pounds of gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Seas. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have brought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere is deceptive. The place is the focal poi ...Show more
Valley of the Shadow by Franklin A. Leib
$15.00 NZD
Category: War
The eagerly awaited sequel to The Fire Dream from the author of Fire Arrow. Lt. William Stuart goes to the valley of shadows--an enemy camp in a treacherous part of Laos--after he receives a cryptic note from his gunner friend Douglas Moser, an MIA Stuart thought was dead.
Night of the Fox by Jack Higgins
$12.00 NZD
Category: War
A classic thriller featuring the most daring escape of the Second World War, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed.American Colonel Hugh Kelso is washed ashore on German-held Jersey in Spring 1944, with top-secret D-Day plans in his possession. To get him back, the most daring ...Show more
The First Casualty by Ben Elton
$12.00 NZD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious ob ...Show more
In Danger's Hour by Douglas Reeman
$10.00 NZD
Category: War
The captain of the fleet minesweeper "HMS Rob Roy" tells of his experiences in the World War II and how the navy's "little ships" fared.