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Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: Military
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has i ...Show more
Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, John was the perfect person for an occasional business partner, Andrew Simon, to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-comm ...Show more
The World Aflame by Dan Jones; Marina Amaral
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military
'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful' The Times. The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global confli ...Show more
Tales of Three Campaigns by Cyprian Bridge Brereton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Description: In 1926, Colonel Brereton who had taken the 12th (Nelson) Company of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion into the Great War in the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, wrote the well-received first edition of this title. The three campaigns alluded to, were the Battle of the Su ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Military
A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and Belgium, occ ...Show more
Bravo Kiwi by Craig Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military
Major Craig Wilson is a decorated former SAS member, and has been in more combat zones than any other Kiwi soldier. He was the commanding officer of Bravo Company, which lost 2 soldiers when they went to the aid Afghan police at Baghek in August 2012. Craig was left injured, shot in the shoulder, and wa ...Show more
Tragedy At Évian: How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust by Tony Matthews
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military
In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities. However, most of those nations re ...Show more
Seek And Destroy by Paul Harrison
$85.00 NZD
Category: Military
In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in August 1965. Seek and Destroy is the official history of the machines and personnel that make up the colourful and wide-ranging operations of this unique squadron, which was fir ...Show more
Avro Lancaster by Jarrod Cotter; Paul Blackah
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Haynes Icons Ser.
During the Second World War, RAF Lancaster bombers took the conflict into the very heart of Hitler's Third Reich, and flew some of the most daring operations of the war. Surprisingly, of the 7,377 Lancasters built, only two survive today, one in Britain and one in Canada. Produced with the full coopera ...Show more
Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War by David Littlewood
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: Near Fine
The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors pushed naive young men into a nightmare of mud and blood that killed millions and left scarred and embittered survivors.However, the ongoing reinterpretation of the First World W ...Show more
The Home Front: The Impact of the Great War on Everyday New Zealanders, 1914-19 by Steven Loveridge; James Watson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile : A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Bombing of London by Erik Larson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz "A bravura performance by one of America's greatest storytellers."--NPR NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The ...Show more