New Zealand's Vietnam War: A History of Combat, Commitment and Controversy by Ian McGibbon
$75.00 NZD
Category: Vietnam War
New Zealand's Vietnam War provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War, one that will remain the standard reference work on the subject for decades. Its publication will complete the programme of official war history production that began in 1945. Th ...Show more
Firing Line by Richard Holmes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military theory and general reference
This study of the military experience is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. We are shown the humiliation of basic training, the soldier's attitude to fear, the compelling effect of personal leadership, the drive for sex and loot, the elixir of comradeship. Covering two centuries and including t ...Show more
Dunkirk to D-Day by Jeff Steel
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War
From Dunkirk, Dieppe and to D-Day, Bill Adlam's war experience reads like fiction. Secret missions, commando raids and the Military Medal – this is a rip-roaring true story of action, military prowess and courage.
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War by David M. Guss
$12.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through ten different POW c ...Show more
Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by HAMISH ROSS
$12.00 NZD
$15.00 (20% off)
Category: Biographies and memoirs
The definitive biography of Paddy Mayne, and the true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes. 'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander ...Show more
In Deadly Combat by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Second World War | Series: Modern War Studies
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theatre from 1941 to 1945, and this memoir of those years recaptures his gruelling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin.
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything - Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military theory and general reference
The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear unifor ...Show more
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
$20.00 NZD
Category: Spies, intelligence and cold war
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national ...Show more
Stalin's Silver by John Beasant
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
On the night of August 28, 1944, three torpedoes from the German submarine U-859 sank the American merchant ship USS John Barry in the Arabian sea off the eastern seaboard of Oman. The holds of the John Barry contained over $300 million in silver bullion. The 7200-ton ship broke into two pieces and sank ...Show more
The Ballard of Les Darcy by Peter Fitzsimons
$10.00 NZD
$15.00 (33% off)
Category: First World War | Series: Books Alive Ser.
The Ballad of Les Darcy, a biography of the legendary Australian boxer, is the latest book from Australia's bestselling author Peter FitzSimons and is exclusive to Books Alive. It's FREE in participating bookshops when a customer buys any book from The 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide.
Hitler's Samurai - The Waffen-SS in Action by Bruce Quarrie
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Third Reich