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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 | Reading Level: near fine
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 ...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
World War II: the Definitive Visual History Vol 2 - From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day by Richard Overy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: World War II: the Definitive Visual History Ser.
Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this second of two volumes is an outstanding concise history of WWII from the invasion of Sicily to VJ Day. This second volume in the landmark series about WWII examines the Alli ...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
World War II: the Definitive Visual History Vol 1 - From the Munich Crisis to the Battle of Kursk by Richard Overy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: World War II: the Definitive Visual History Ser.
Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this first of two volumes is an outstanding concise history of WWII from the Munich Crisis to the Battle of Kursk. This first of two volumes begins in the period when the Axis po ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (PB) by Ben Macintyre
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...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 Great Secret by Jennet Conant
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen an ...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
Four Hours of Fury - The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany by James M. Fenelon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military
"Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II's largest airborne operation--one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into ...Show more