RAF Tornado Units in Combat 1992-2019 by Michael Napier; Janusz Swiatlon (Illustrator); Gareth Hector (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Combat Aircraft Ser.
After the Gulf War of 1990, No Fly Zones (NFZ) were established over northern and southern Iraq and the Tornado GR 1 force stepped up to operations over the southern NFZ. The Tornado GR 4 took responsibility for RAF combat air operations in Afghanistan from the Harrier force in 2009, and in 2011 was inv ...Show more
RV There Yet by Don Jessen; Marilyn Jessen
40.00 NZD
Category: Cars
From choosing and setting up your RV, to living life on the open road, this book is designed to guide you through all stages of the decision-making process from your RV dreams to the practical realities of RV ownership. Whether it's building, purchasing, self-containment, safety or maintenance, this boo ...Show more
Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly by Sandler, Martin W.
40.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
From National Book Award winner Martin W. Sandler, a fascinating look at the week that brought aviation fever to the world In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. Six years later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise ...Show more
Railways: A History in Drawings by Christopher Valkoinen
110.00 NZD
Category: Railways
The advent of railways in Britain was a fundamental part of its economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that were the envy of the world and chronicled from the beginning through meticulous drawings. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages and wagons, as ...Show more
Retro Reds To The Rescue by Tony Hurst
30.00 NZD
Category: Railways
Currently, Wellington suburban train services are operated by Matangi electric multiple-units, all virtually visibly identical. But as recently as 2011 there was a wide variety of electric units in use, as well as one set of locomotive-hauled carriages, providing a much more colourful and varied operati ...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
Slow Trains Around Spain - A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: very good
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Tom Chesshyre hits the tracks to take in the country through ...Show more
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol
27.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys. 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nic ...Show more
Spitfire, Vol. 1 - Supermarine's Spitfire Marques I to VII and Seafire Marques I to III by Ron Mackay
45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
This first of two volumes on the Supermarine Spitfire covers the design, testing, development, and early WWII combat use of the famed British fighter aircraft's initial variants. The Spitfire in its original marques up to the Mk. VII provided a platform that allowed the Royal Air Force to challenge the ...Show more
Steam Trails Life Viewed from the Guards Van by Norman Junge
47.00 NZD
Category: Railways
Here’s a fresh account of life on New Zealand Railways. Most crew stories have been written from the front of the train, but the guard at the back of the train had a completely different view of the world and the things that occurred on the railway. Norman Junge was a guard on the Midland Line from 1947 ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
33.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: new
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
The Crew by David Price
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Ta ...Show more