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Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
38.00 NZD
Category: History
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
25.00 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: Military
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found th ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
27.00 NZD
Category: Military
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Faces of World War II by Sir Max Hastings
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Faces of World War II pays tribute to all who fought and died, and won and lost for greater human rights and freedom. Structured by year, the book includes images of the major events from Blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor. With over 17 million people perish ...Show more
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
70.00 NZD
Category: History
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide betwe ...Show more
Finest Years - Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Max Hastings
27.00 NZD
30.00 (10% off)
Category: Military
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide betwee ...Show more
Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
27.00 NZD
Category: History
A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Ko ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propose ...Show more