Strange Defeat - A Statement of Evidence Written In 1940 by Marc Bloch
$12.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Chris ...Show more
Arguing about War by Michael Walzer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A provocative discussion of recent wars and the issues that surround them, written by a preeminent political theorist Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three ...Show more
Dreadnought - Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K Massie
$16.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good
The Spymaster of Baghdad - The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker
$10.00 NZD
Category: Espionage | Reading Level: good-very good
The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the Falcons- the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit, follow the fraught relationship of two of h ...Show more
Arrian - The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian; J R Hamilton (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: very good
A Western Front Companion 1914-1918 by John Laffin
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good
The Trojan War - A New History by Barry Strauss
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washingto ...Show more
Field of Battle - The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey by Thomas J Halsey; Karen M. Kostyal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The First Clash - The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization by Jim Lacey
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier's eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity."--Barry Strauss, author of Masters of Command Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its name evokes images of almost superhuman ...Show more
The Battle of Marathon by Peter Krentz
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Yale Library of Military History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A gripping account of the pivotal battle that changed Greek military history 2,500 years ago How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produce ...Show more