Truk 1944-45 - The Destruction of Japan's Central Pacific Bastion by Mark Lardas; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day. In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a Japanese ...Show more
Grid - The Life and Times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
65.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith (Grid) Logan Caldwell CBE, MC,DFC & Bar, Croix de Guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during theFirst World War, by the end of which he was the leader of the revered 74 - Tiger- Squadron, personally credited with the destruction or downin ...Show more
Invasion: Inside Russia's War on Ukraine by Luke Harding
28.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
The first account of the Ukraine war, from the award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times selling author of Collusion and Shadow State who forecasted Putin's dark adventurist ambitions. For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And ye ...Show more
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler's War Machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine, through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraord ...Show more
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli by Mat McLachlan
40.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
Gallipoli is the defining battlefield in Australian history and identity, yet the tale of the Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I, now brought to light by bestselling military ...Show more
Barents Sea 1942 - The Battle for Russia's Arctic Lifeline by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all. The Arctic convoys that passed through the cold, dangerous waters of the Barents Se ...Show more
SU-152/ISU-152 vs Tiger - Eastern Front 1943-45 by David Greentree
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Duel Ser.
This fully illustrated volume compares two of the most iconic AFV's: the SU-152/ISU-152 and the Tiger, used on the Eastern Front during World War II.On the Eastern Front in 1943, the Tiger-equipped heavy Panzer battalions gave German armoured divisions an unmatched capability that cost the Red Army dear ...Show more
The Devil's Bridge : The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
43.00 NZD
Category: Military
In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thr ...Show more
Long Shot - My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious assault and, street by street, ...Show more
Vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-45 by Gavin Mortimer; Henry Morshead (Illustrator); Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustrator)
27.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Long Range Desert Group was one of the most famous special units of World War II, operating heavily modified vehicles deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence and support the raids of David Stirling's new Special Air Service.When war broke out, a pre-war explorer and army officer, Ralph Bagnol ...Show more
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
26.00 NZD
Category: Military
The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team t ...Show more
Leyte Gulf 1944 (1) - The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar by Mark Stille; Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In October 1944, the US prepared to invade the Philippines to cut Japan off from its resource areas in Southeast Asia. The Japanese correctly predicted this, and prepared a complex operation to use the remaining strength of its navy to defend its possessions. This is the first in a two-part study of the ...Show more