Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | 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
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South C ...Show more
A Bridge Over - The Story of John Masters, Veteran Fighter by Allan Marriott
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2009, Christchurch In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was ...Show more
Shrapnel and Semaphore - My Grandfather\'s Diary of Gallipoli by Jan Chamberlin
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
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Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
The Art of War by Tzu Sun
$8.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The ancient Chinese treatise of military strategy is now a business classic and here brought up to date by bestselling author and military scholar James Clavell. Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still reso ...Show more
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
A Western Front Companion 1914-1918 by John Laffin
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good