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Fusiliers by Mark Urban
59.99 NZD
Category: History
From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. With a wealth of previously unused primary accounts, Mark Urban reveals the inner life of the regiment - and, through it, of ...Show more
Fusiliers - How the British Army Lost America But Learned to Fight by Mark Urban
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: History
From 1775 to 1781, the Royal Welch Fusiliers fought furiously to uphold British rule in America. With a wealth of previously unused primary accounts, Urban tells the gripping story of one of the most pivotal campaigns in history.
Generals by Mark Urban
59.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
From the best-selling author of Rifles, the bold and remarkable lives - and battles - of ten of Britain's greatest generals.Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the ...Show more
Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World by Mark Urban
32.99 NZD
34.00 (2% off)
Category: History
Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite differe ...Show more
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six me ...Show more
Rifles : Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
29.99 NZD
Category: History
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their tar ...Show more
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
55.00 NZD
59.99 (8% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at t ...Show more
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
38.99 NZD
39.99 (2% off)
Category: Military
When British and American forces invaded Iraq in April 2003, their intelligence operations got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised us were there. They quickly realised no such weapons existed. Instead they become faced with an ever-increasing spiral of extremism and violence that ...Show more
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell by Mark Urban
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
History books report--and rightly so--that it was the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance of the Duke of Wellington (who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley) that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. Nearly two hundred years later, many of Gener ...Show more
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Engrossing . . . Urban tells the story of Skripal's undercover career well, much of it previously unknown and gleaned from around 10 hours of conversations with him at his Salisbury home' Guardian Who is Sergei Skripal? Agent. Prisoner. Target. The Skripal Files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the ...Show more
The Tank War: The Men, the Machines, and the Long Road to Victory by Mark Urban
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they w ...Show more
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