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Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori in the First World War by Monty Soutar
$69.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
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
Partisan: The Incredible True Story of a New Zealand Soldier Behind Enemy Lines by James Caffin
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: near fine
The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War After a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Yugoslavia, John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where he join ...Show more
Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman by Alexander C. Aitken; Alex Calder (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: near fine
Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Wes ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and the famous ten ...Show more
ANZAC Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory by Antonio Sagona (Editor); Richard Reid (Editor); Mithat Atabay (Editor); C. J. Mackie (Editor); Ian McGibbon (Editor)
$76.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day. Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this book unearths the deep history of the ...Show more
From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The New Zealand Division on the Western Front 1916-1918 : a History and Guide to Its Battlefields by John H. Gray
$33.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: New
The New Zealand Division's campaign in France and Flanders was the birth of the modern New Zealand Army. At Armentieres, First Somme 1916, Messines and Third Ypres 1917 it established a high reputation. This was enhanced in its great encounter battle when it closed a gap in the British Line on the Ancre ...Show more
Le Quesnoy 1918 by Christopher Pugsley
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking through defensive lines and scaling the town walls by ladder, the New Zealanders overwhelmed the defenders, freeing the town after years of German occupation. It w ...Show more
To the Gateways of Florence: New Zealand Forces in Tuscany 1944 by Stefano Fusi (editor)
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: Very Good
From 21 July to 4 August 1944, New Zealand soldiers were at the front line as Allied forces pushed forward across the heartland of Tuscany to wrest Florence from German hands. First published in Italy in 2009, To the Gateways of Florence preserves the core of the Italian book, with the addition of new m ...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
My Escape from Crete by Jim McDevitt
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
In July 1941, after five weeks behind the barbed wire of a prisoner-of-war compound in fallen Crete, Jim McDevitt spotted a chance for freedom. Without pausing to reflect on the dangers, the bold young kiwi took his chance, and so began a 22-month game of cat-and-mouse wuth the island's conquerors. This ...Show more
Won by the Spade - How the Royal New Zealand Engineers Built a Nation by Peter Cooke
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
This authoritative history of the Royal New Zealand Engineers offers a comprehensive account of the corps' actions, events and personnel from the New Zealand Wars of the 19th century to the present. It examines military engineering in New Zealand, the corps' role in overseas wars and home defences, and ...Show more
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War by Anna Rogers
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
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, phys ...Show more
