Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army by Dario Nustrini
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military history
Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army. When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: 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
1945: Victory in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military history
'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPHMarch 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift ...Show more
A Village in the Third Reich: How ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel
$26.99 NZD
Category: Military history
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the southernmost corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$26.00 NZD
Category: Military history
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued) by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 NZD
Category: Military history | Reading Level: near fine
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villai ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military history
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could spl ...Show more
Barbarossa by Stewart Binns
$38.00 NZD
Category: Military history
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.Sunday June 22nd 1941: 6 million Nazi troops marched on Moscow, with a brutal scorched-earth tactic that saw millions of Soviet citizens massacred. ...Show more
Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Er ...Show more
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
$42.00 NZD
Category: Military history
The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries sup ...Show more
Deceptions of World War II: From camouflage techniques to deception tactics by Darman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Military history
Discover the inner workings of the ingenious and outrageous acts of military subterfuge that took place during WWII. From fictitious spy networks feeding the enemy false information, to disguising an entire wartime industry, these incredible stories shed light on the deceptions – and their masterminds – ...Show more