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Man of Secrets: The Private Life of Donald Mclean by Matthew Wright
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Donald McLean. The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures – and provoked war between Maori along the way. ...Show more
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
New Zealand on the Move - 100 Kiwi Transport Icons by Matthew Wright
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As this country developed from 1840 on, transport was the key to opening up areas for farming, forestry and manufacturing. The trains, ships, cars, planes, motorbikes and trucks that we used on to get places and make us more efficient were so relied upon that they have become part of our DNA. In this li ...Show more
New Zealand's Engineering Heritage 1870-2000 by Matthew Wright
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
No matter how you look at it, New Zealand is a young country. Its youth has presented a challenge for our engineers, who have had to build the infrastructure needed for a modern trading economy in little over 150 years, in terrain that is often still being shaped by the forces that are forming the land. ...Show more
New Zealand's Military Heroism by Matthew Wright
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Matthew Wright tells the stories of heroes from all the major conflicts that New Zealanders have played a part in over the last 150 years, including the New Zealand Wars, the two World Wars and peacekeeping duties in the 1990s.
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland by Matthew Wright
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good-very good
A lively new illustrated history of the South Island by Matthew Wright, Old South tells a story of triumphs, tragedies and earnest hopes. It covers: early Maori-Pakeha conflict, the Wairau Affair, colonial settlement planned and unplanned, the Gold Rush, the growth of farming and the pastoral elite, and ...Show more
Pacific War: New Zealand and Japan 1941-45 by Matthew Wright
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In December 1941, Japan attacked the British Commonwealth and the United States. For a few desperate months during early 1942, New Zealand faced down the threat of a blockade and, ultimately, invasion. fought the Japanese on land, sea and air, from Malaya to the Solomons and, finally, in Japanese home w ...Show more
Quake : The Hawke's Bay Earthquake by Matthew Wright
34.99 NZD
44.99 (22% off)
Category: Rotorua Books
On 3 February 1931, Hawke's Bay was shattered by the largest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand. It was a disaster of national proportions, damaging buildings from Gisborne to Wanganui, a catastrophe that officially killed 256 and seriously injured more than 400. Fresh pictures, diaries and eyewitn ...Show more
Reed Illustrated History of New Zealand by Matthew Wright
29.99 NZD
65.00 (53% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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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
The New Zealand Wars (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: The NZ Series
Why did the New Zealand Wars occur? Who fought them and how did they proceed? And where were these battles fought? In The New Zealand Wars, Matthew Wright answers these questions in probing text supported by fact boxes and illustrations that make navigating these protracted wars easy. Building on his 20 ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars: A Brief History (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: The New Zealand Series
From 1845 to 1875, New Zealand experienced a succession of conflicts that stretched from the Bay of Islands to Wellington. What they meant has been debated ever since. To some they were land wars, to others, the Maori wars; lately we are calling them the New Zealand wars. Why were they fought? Who reall ...Show more