Leaving Mac Behind - The Lost Marines of Guadalcanal by Geoffrey Roecker
$47.31 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"My first telegram came Sep. 3 1942 that my son was missing in action. And the next telegram came Aug. 18 1943 that he was Declared Dead. Till this day I do not know what happened to him." Mrs. Ann M. Lyons, August 7, 1957.Between 1942 and 1944, nearly four hundred Marines virtually vanished in the jung ...Show more
Letters from the Trenches and the Home Front by Robert Hamilton (Editor); Daily Daily Mail (Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Letters and editorial published in the Daily Mail give a first hand contemporary record of the Great War
Lightning Boys - True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning by Richard Pike
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
First published in 2011 to wide acclaim, Lightning Boys is now available in paperback for the first time as part of Grub Street's fantastic new Jet Age Series. In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who a ...Show more
Hunter Boys - True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter by Richard Pike
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
From Richard Pike, author of Grub Street's bestselling Lightning Boys series, comes Hunter Boys, a fascinating insight into the experiences of those who flew the iconic Hawker Hunter - an aircraft known affectionately to many as 'Queen of the Skies'. Now in paperback for the first time. In fifteen separ ...Show more
False Flags - Disguised German Raiders of World War II by Stephen Robinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran left Germany and waged a "pirate war" in the South Seas as part of Germany's strategy to attack t ...Show more
Air War D-Day: Winged Pegasus and the Rangers by Martin Bowman
$44.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This is the third volume of a comprehensive five part work, detailing every aspect of air and paratroop operations on the night of 5/6 June 1944. The 6th Airborne Division was to support British Second Army and First Canadian Army; it's task was to seize and hold the left flank of the bridgehead. The 5t ...Show more
D-Day and Normandy - A Visual History by Anthony Richards
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly secret D-Day invasion had begun. By the end of the day, the mission to liberate Europe had made its most crucial advance. This richly illustrated account of the ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of fa ...Show more
Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany by James M. Fenelon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
"Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II's largest airborne operation--one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into ...Show more
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's ...Show more