The Crimean War - A History by Orlando Figes
$50.00 NZD
Category: Military history | Reading Level: very good
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale--these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires--the British, French, Turkish, and Russian--in a battl ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$32.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city a ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$80.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
In A Soldier's History of the SAS, bestselling author and SAS veteran Chris Ryan uses his matchless network of contacts to give the soldiers' accounts of missions in Malaya and Borneo, the Iranian Embassy Siege, Operation Certain Death in Sierra Leone, in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are a ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Outpost: (FTI) by Jake Tapper
$28.00 NZD
Category: Military history
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild At 5:58 ...Show more
The Outpost - The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War by Jake Tapper
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military history
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild ...Show more
The War Inside: New Zealand Prisoners of War tell their Stories by Steve Liddle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Military history
How do you survive imprisonment in war? How do you live afterwards? Each of these first-hand accounts by WWII prisoners of war provides unique insights into these questions. They also take readers back to a century of world wars, the collapse of civilised values, and eventual discovery of trauma's inter ...Show more
Victory at Gate Pa by Buddy Makaere
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate Pa was a defining moment in New Zealand history. It brought together forces representing the British Empire's military machine, political manoeuvering and settler land hunger, Maori notions of sovereignty and self-determination, Christian ideals, and blood and death on a ...Show more
We Germans by Alexander Starritt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military history
A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this "raw, visceral, and propulsive" novel (New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the throes of the Second W ...Show more
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
$22.99 NZD
Category: Military history
The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find their way through a ...Show more
Wings over Water - The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military history
The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and celebration of speed and engineering prowess.