The Tank Book: The Definitive Visual History of Armoured Vehicles by DK
65.00 NZD
Category: Military
Get up close to more than 400 of the most important tanks and armoured vehicles ever built. In 1916, the British built a machine that was impervious to enemy fire, and could dominate the battlefield, crushing obstacles and barbed wire in its path. The first tank, or "Mother" as it was known, had arrived ...Show more
Naval Battle of Crete 1941 - The Royal Navy at Breaking Point by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Accounts of history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics and battle experiences of the opposing forces throughout the crucial stages of each campaign, In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, the British Mediterranean Fleet was ordered to evacuate Allied survivors ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Air Marshal Sir Keith Park - Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta by Murray Rowlands
50.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to 'The Few', victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park.He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured ...Show more
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more
Macchi C. 202/C. 205V Units in Combat by Marco Mattioli; Richard Caruana (Illustrator); Gareth Hector (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Combat Aircraft Ser.
A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots.Italian fighters, such as the Fiat G.50 and Macchi C.20 ...Show more
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers; Jim Laurier (Illustrator); Mark Postlethwaite (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Combat Aircraft Ser.
A fully illustrated guide to one of the finest dive-bombers produced during World War 2, the Yokosuka D4Y "Judy." In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber ...Show more
Stalingrad 1942-43 (1) - The German Advance to the Volga by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended to achieve a decisive victory- Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that one army group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to ...Show more
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed inter ...Show more
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
28.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
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