SR-71 Blackbird - Lockheed's Ultimate Spy Plane by David Doyle
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
As of 2023, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest manned jet aircraft ever produced. It set the record in 1976 and has been retired since the late 1990s. With its unrivalled speed and stunning appearance, the Blackbird has maintained an almost supernatural mystique to this day. The type entered se ...Show more
From Spitfires to Vampires and Beyond - A Kiwi Ace's RAF Journey by Owen Hardy; G. A 'Black' Robertson (Editor)
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
World War Two Spitfire pilot Owen Hardy was probably the last New Zealand ace to tell his story. He left home at 18 bent on joining the RAF and by 1942, aged only 20, he was at Biggin Hill with 72 Squadron under Brian Kingcome. D-Day found him flying over the Normandy beaches with 485 (New Zealand) Squa ...Show more
Cold War Boys - Previously Unpublished Tales of Derring-Do from Lightning, Phantom and Hunter Pilots by Richard Pike
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and conventional military friction between the Eastern ...Show more
We Were Blackwater: Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq - an SAS veteran's explosive true story by Barrie "Baz" Rice
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the untold story of the security industry and its private war in Iraq, recounted by a man who witnessed it first hand. His visceral, no-holds-barred account of his time with Blackwater is brought to life in scenes that lead to a reckoning with both the war and himself. The aftermath of the 200 ...Show more
Most Secret - MI9 Escape and Evasion Devices by Sarah Paterson (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
$49.99 (9% off)
Category: Military History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Published for the first time since its creation in 1942, this 'most secret' facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture and escape from prisoner of war camps. From silk maps designed to be concealed in garments, tiny radio rec ...Show more
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thrillerBuilt of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the pl ...Show more
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military History
In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six me ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire by Matthew Willis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Renowned naval aviation author Matthew Willis tells the story of the Supermarine Seafire - a navalized version of the famous Spitfire adapted for use on aircraft carriers. Some 2646 examples were built and saw action with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm from November 1942 until after the Korean War in th ...Show more
The Tank Book: The Definitive Visual History of Armoured Vehicles by DK
$65.00 NZD
Category: Military History
Get up close to more than 400 of the most important tanks and armoured vehicles ever built. In 1916, the British built a machine that was impervious to enemy fire, and could dominate the battlefield, crushing obstacles and barbed wire in its path. The first tank, or "Mother" as it was known, had arrived ...Show more
Bomber Command - IWM Photography Collection by Rebecca Greenwood Harding
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The Imperial War Museum holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Off ering a snapshot into this unique collection, Bomber Command showcases 50 iconic photographs of the aircraf ...Show more
Devil Dogs - First in, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A Daily Telegraph History Book of the YearFrom Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were par ...Show more