The War illustrated

$5.00 NZD

Category: Magazines and Newspapers

The Elite The World's Crack Fighting Men

$5.00 NZD

Category: Magazines and Newspapers

Ice and Fire. New Zealand and the Korean War 1950-1953

$5.00 NZD

Category: Korean War

I Was No Soldier by Lewis, Ted

$40.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

A Kiwi medics' impressions of WWII through a fine literary, photographic, and artistic effort.

Warship A Quarterly Journal

$5.00 NZD

Category: Naval History

The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster

$7.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

A revised and updated edition of Mark Arnold-Foster's account of why and how World War II happened. The book also explores the far-reaching consequences for the post-war generations.

The World at Arms

$15.00 NZD

Category: Second Hand & Rare Books

The Great War for Civilisation : The conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk

$15.00 NZD

Category: Other Wars

Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the world's worst trouble-spots. This is his first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock and awe of the current war against Iraq. The Great War for Civilisation is written with passion and anger, a reporter's eyewitness account of the Middle East's history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region -- from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon -- come alive in these pages. Fisk has met most of them, and even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with bin Laden himself. In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's most ruthless dictators and America's ever more powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands as well as its uncritical, unconditional support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. It is also a story of journalists at war, of the rage, humour and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives reporting the first draft of history, their weaknesses and cowardice, their courage and truth-telling. After reading The Great War for Civilisation the reader grasps just why those 19 suicide pilots changed the world on September 11th. Brought right up to the current day and reporting from the heart of a bombed-out Bagdad, Fisk examines the factors leading up to the coalition forces entering Iraq, and discusses possible outcomes of long-term involvement there. First published 2005. "The Great War for Civilisation is frighteningly perceptive, edifying and intelligent...What you'll learn is alarming - both because it happened and because so much of it was never previously reported." - North and South ...Show more

Nelson by Carola Oman

$20.00 NZD

Category: Naval History

An Account of My Life: Aart Kool 1787-1862 by Aart Kool (Editor)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biographies

In 1812 Aart Kool was a young Dutch engineering officer in Napoleon's army on the march to Moscow. Of the 600,000 troops in that infamous campaign, only 15,000 made it home. Aart was one. Twenty-five years later he wrote a vivid and engrossing account of his involvement in this setback for the French e mpire. A century later, on the anniversary of Napoleon's defeat, his story was published in a Rotterdam newspaper. Now, two hundred years after 1812, it has been translated into English and is published here for the first time. “These notes about my life were to be expanded at the end of my military career, with the many memories I still have. Unfortunately, a nerve-related illness makes this task so difficult for me that I have failed to do much. In rereading this material, and the many official documents I still have, I can imagine that my son, or one of my grandchildren, might find a pen to write up my history one day. I give my blessing from my resting place for this, as I assume this will not happen until after my death.” ...Show more

History of the First World War by B. H. Liddell Hart

$30.00 NZD

Category: First World War

Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor

$30.00 NZD

Category: Second World War

This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d edication to the welfare of others. ...Show more