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
With Them Through Hell by Rogers Anna
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Signed by the author. 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, ch ...Show more
Bravo Kiwi: New Zealand Soldiers, Afghanistan and the Battle of Baghak by Craig Wilson
19.99 NZD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ Military
Major Craig Wilson is a decorated former SAS member, and has been in more combat zones than any other Kiwi soldier. He was the commanding officer of Bravo Company, which lost 2 soldiers when they went to the aid Afghan police at Baghek in August 2012. Craig was left injured, shot in the shoulder, and wa ...Show more
Flies, Sand and Unwashed Socks - Letters from WWII: New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 by R. G. Harris; Susan Cambridge
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Letters from WWII New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1940-1943 R.G. (Dick) Harris These letters are from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Italy: Dick Harris travelled huge distances in North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. For more than three years he lived with bombing from the air and s ...Show more
Gallipoli to the Somme - Recollections of a New Zealand Infantry Man by Aitken Alexander
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
Battle for North Africa - El Alamein and the turning point for World War II by Glyn Harper
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Er ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
59.98 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
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 tenn ...Show more
Army Fundamentals: From Making Soldiers to the Limits of the Military Instrument by Bethan Greener (ed.)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: Near Fine
How does an Army recruit attain an identity with soldierhood? What do they give up and what do they gain? What happens when a young officer, indoctrinated in a military way of thinking, is thrust into the academic, free-thinking environment of a university? When military units are deployed in insecure e ...Show more
A New Zealand Response to Challenge: The War at Home by Ruth Naumann
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
An exciting activity based approach to New Zealand's heritage. WWII was a major challenge to the NZ Home Front. While thousands of New Zealanders were overseas in the armed forces those at home had to respond to a crisis. Special organisations, such as the Home Guard, Emergency Precautions Service an ...Show more
The Ferret: Sergeant Eric Batchelor DCM and Bar, M.I.D. by Tom O'Connor
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
I interviewed Eric Batchelor several times during the years I worked as a journalist in Timaru, usually in the lead up to Anzac Day or some other military commemoration. Sitting in his homely kitchen he shared stories of his exploits during World War Two in his quietly spoken manner. He was always frank ...Show more