New Zealand Battlefields And Memorials Of The Western Front by Ian McGibbon
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Guidebook that provides directions for those who wish to visit the graves of their forebears or to examine the places in which so much New Zealand blood was shed, often in horrifying conditions. Brief descriptions of the various battles in which the New Zealanders took part are provided to give the visi ...Show more
Dear Alison: A New Zealand Soldier's Story From Stalag 383 by Simon Pollard
58.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
In July 1942 with a notebook and pencil he had bought from a German guard, Dudley Muff started Alison's Book. Dudley was 42 and a prisoner of war in Stalag XVIIIB in Germany and his niece Alison was four and living in Timaru. With humorous entries, sketches and what he called "little men" his story grew ...Show more
Warbirds Over Wanaka by Ian Brodie
11.99 NZD
26.00 (53% off)
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: Very Good
Spectacular aircraft and military equipment showcased in one of the world's largest and most important historical air shows. Enthusiasts and historic aircraft come from all over the world to turn quiet Wanaka from a small tourist destination in the lower South Island to the centre of the Warbird world f ...Show more
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Matthew Wright
45.00 NZD
47.00 (4% off)
Category: NZ Military
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young me ...Show more
Our War: The Grim Digs - New Zealand soldiers in North Africa, 1940-1943 by Martyn Thompson
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Military
This is the story of war as told by the men who fought it. Based on over eighty interviews with New Zealand veterans of the 1940-1943 North African and Middle East campaigns, these personal memoirs build to a vivid, sometimes visceral, portrait of men at war - the fear, the boredom, the adventure, the h ...Show more
Brothers at War - A Kiwi Family's Story by Jim Rolfe
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
The exploits of the Rolfe Brothers - Jim, Reg and Jack - cover between them most of the campaigns in which Kiwi soldiers fought. From Reg's daring escape in an open fishing boat from Crete, where he was a prisoner of war; desert fighting in North Africa, including El Alamein; through to the war in Italy ...Show more
Spreading Their Wings: Women of the WAAF in Wartime by Bee Dawson
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
When World War II broke out in 1939, the idea of women working in the Armed Forces was considered quite radical, in spite of a long tradition of Army nurses. The first women of the WAAF were greeted with opposition and disapproval, but by the end of the war they had become respected members of the Armed ...Show more
Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar by Kenneth Sandford
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy ...Show more
In Defence of Our Land: A Tour of New Zealand's Historic Harbour Forts by Russell Glackin
100.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
The harbour forts of New Zealand occupy some of the grandest real estate in the country, yet little is known of the blood, sweat and tears that went into their construction. Highly illustrated with archival photos, maps and site plans, this easy-to-follow book is full of fascinating stories about New Ze ...Show more
Blood Brothers by Jeff Hopkins-Weise
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
This is a ground-breaking and sure to be controversial work that highlights, for the first time in detail, the story of how the New Zealand Land Wars of the 19th century were the true birthplace of an Australian and New Zealand military tradition that would become known as the ANZAC legend.This book sho ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War by Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
47.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: Very Good
The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and n ...Show more