An Account of My Life: Aart Kool 1787-1862 by Aart Kool (Editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Napoleonic Wars
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 ...Show more
Hess : a Kiwi Malta Ace by SUTHERLAND James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
This biography concerns the life of one of New Zealand's top fighter aces of World War Two. Ray Hesselyn, "Hess" to his friends, was one of the first pilots to ferry Spitfires on to the besieged island of Malta. He became the only New Zealander to be awarded the D.F.M. and Bar. This is the story of cour ...Show more
Fighting Cochranes - A Scottish Clan over Six Hundred Years of Naval and Military History by Alexander Cochrane
$100.00 NZD
$120.00 (16% off)
Category: Biographies and memoirs
It is not often that a great Scottish family dating back six hundred years has produced a line of fighting men who have served God and Country to the degree which Clan Cochrane can justly claim. Even less often that the continuity of this tradition can lend itself to a book which, by the telling of a fa ...Show more
Younghusband - The last great imperial adventurer by Patrick French
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers.Patrick French's award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the "damned rum name," who ...Show more
Freyberg's Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II by Noel (Wig) Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Tells of courageous acts by ordinary soldiers in inhuman conditions, moving with Freyberg's Circus from Alamein to Tunisia, North Africa. Illustrated with b&w photos.
Bringing up the Rear - The Sequel to Freyberg's Circus: Further Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier by Noel "Wig" Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Mark Of The Lion: The Story of Capt. Charles Upham V.C. & Bar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
The Lonely Leader - Monty 1944-1945 by Alistair Horne; David Montgomery
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Doc' - A Soldier's Life by Max Schwass; Denis Dewe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Jean, Lady Hamilton 1861-1941 A Soldier's Wife by Celia Lee
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
A Soldier's Life - General Sir Ian Hamilton, 1853-1947 by John Lee
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
In this illustrated account of a remarkable man and a brilliant soldier, John Lee reveals that Gallipoli was a doomed exercise almost from the start and that Hamilton, though largely exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission which investigated the campaign, deserves to have his entire career re-assessed. ...Show more