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1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counteratta ...Show more
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The South Notts Hussars fought at most British battles of the Second World War, from the Siege of Tobruk to the Battle of El Alamein and the D-Day Landings. Here, Peter Hart draws on detailed interviews conducted with members of the regiment to provide both a comprehensive account of the conflict and re ...Show more
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A close-up at the sharp end of armoured warfare. This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - the sheer nerve-wracking tens ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. 'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeleton ...Show more
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness acc ...Show more
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a masterful history of the First World War, covering all areas and explaining the technology and tactics that determined its course. The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Empires fell, others were crippled and new contenders emerged. Econo ...Show more
The Last Battle : Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the fighting deep into 1919, with the loss of hundreds of thousands more young lives, or could the war be won in 1918? In T ...Show more
The Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front 1918 by Peter Hart
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the fighting deep into 1919, with the loss of hundreds of thousands more young lives, or could the war be won in 1918? In T ...Show more
The Somme by Peter Hart
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it. On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambli ...Show more
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