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Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and Belgium, occ ...Show more
Eddie Norman And 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War by Anna Rogers
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: near fine
The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers,dentists, chiropodists, pharmacists, physiother ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
The Battle of Messines Road by J. K. Moloney
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: new
'My war was a good war, as was the next one. Your father's is a bad one. But in the end it makes no difference. It's all war. It's always the same.' A man at the end of his life, trying to make sense of war, for a boy at the start of his. The story of how these unlikely friends find solace and together ...Show more
Jack Hinton VC: a Man Amongst Men: A Man Amongst Men by MCDONALD, Gabrielle
$59.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Jungle Green Shadows by Tony Howell
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
The New Zealand Government ordered the deployment of combat forces to Vietnam in 1965 to join Australia and other Allies engaged in that War. Victor 2 Rifle Company arrived in Vietnam on 12 November 1967 and left on 13 May 1968. Major Brian Worsnop was the commander, and the author, Lieutenant Tony Howe ...Show more
From Taranto to Trieste by Jennifer Mallinson
$49.50 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Taranto to Trieste is an account of the author’s fascinating journey to retrace the actual path of the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy from its arrival in October 1943 until the end of the European war. Although a personal journey with personal reflections, the real story is about the largely off-the- ...Show more
Shooting From the Shadows - New Zealand Special Air Service - Wings Williams Story by Michael William
$85.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Between 1956 and 1971 the New Zealand SAS were deployed on active service four times. Michael Wings Williams career in the New Zealand Army, and the New Zealand SAS, spans a significant portion of this period and this book takes the reader through two of those key campaigns; Borneo and South Vietnam.Thi ...Show more
Soldiers, Scouts & Spies: A Military History of the New Zealand Wars 1845 - 1864 by Cliff Simons
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
As interest in the New Zealand Wars grows, Soldiers, Scouts and Spies offers a unique insight into the major campaigns fought between 1845 and 1864 by British troops, their militia and Maori allies, and Maori iwi and coalitions. It was a time of rapid technological change. Maori were quick to adopt west ...Show more
Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori in the First World War by Monty Soutar
$69.99 NZD
Category: Māori Military History
This major publication about Maori participation in the First World War is written by NZ's leading Maori military historian Dr Monty Soutar, author of the award-winning Nga Tama Toa C Company, Maori Battalion. A fascinating look at the Pioneer Battalion (the Battalion created for Maori to serve) that wi ...Show more
For King and Other Countries by Glyn Harper
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
New Zealands military contribution to the First World War was a massive effort for a small country. The figure most often quoted is that from October 1914 through to October 1918, just over 100,000 New Zealanders embarked for military service overseas. But that number does not include the thousands who ...Show more