Combat Cops: The past, the present and their store by Allsopp Nigel
$34.99 NZD
Category: World Military History
Nigel Allsopp, author of over 15 books, has been writing the story of the combat cops, also known as the Military Police, for many years. There are over 40 nations involved where Military Police serve. 'Combact Cops' must be one of the least appreciated yet most indispensable military figures in modern ...Show more
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
$75.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
Throughout history, the concept of command - as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority - has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since th ...Show more
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War by Sarah Rose
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)--and all of it true."--Erik Lar ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
$70.00 NZD
Category: World War II
Lindsay Merritt Inglis was a young man who found a talent for soldiering with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, commanding a Machine Gun company and rising to the rank of Major. From Egypt to the Somme, Messines and Le Quesnoy, he was driven to harness the tactical use of machine guns, the kill ...Show more
Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel; Peter Hart
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
A classic - and compelling - account of the battle of GallipolliThe battle for Gallipoli was officially described as 'one of the world's classic tragedies' and in Defeat at Gallipoli the participants tell the full story of this failed offensive. The bitter campaign against the Turks from April 1915 to J ...Show more
Defending Ireland - The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922 by Eunan O'Halpin
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Military History
This fascinating and original book is the first to analyse the evolution of internal security policy and external defence policy in Ireland from independence to the present day.Professor O'Halpin examines the very limited concept of external defence understood by the first generation of Irish leaders, g ...Show more
Dog in the Snow: The Story of the Middle East Ski School by James Riddell
$65.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: near fine
He was an Alsatian called Rex, who lived among the snows of the mountains of Lebanon and Syria. When the author first met him, in November 1941, Rex belonged to a Bishop of the Maronite Church. Rec disliked strangers, but James Riddell proved an exception. The dog became his devoted companion at the new ...Show more
Dowding's Despatch - The Leader of the Few's 1941 Battle of Britain Narrative Examined by Andy Saunders
$69.99 NZD
Category: World War II
In September 1946, the London Gazette published a dispatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britain. Written and submitted to the Air Ministry in 1941, this document became the very framework for the accepted Battle of Britain narrative which has been est ...Show more
Elusive Peace: A Kiwi Peacekeeper In Angola by John McLeod
$16.50 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History
In 1986 John McLeod published Myth and Reality: The New Zealand Soldier In World War II. Though controversial it was widely praised, with one reviewer saying it was one of the most important New Zealand books ever produced. One criticism that challenged John was that you can't fully understand war until ...Show more
Endure and Fight : A Detailed History of the 4th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-1919 by David Holloway
$575.00 NZD
Category: World Military History | Reading Level: very good