Maud's Journal

New stock of Military History books including:

General:

Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

Chechnya: A Small Victorious War by Carlotta Gall & Thomas de Waal

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins

World War I:

The First World War by John Keegan

First World War by Martin Gilbert

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme by Malcom Brown

World War II:

The Second World War by John Keegan

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Desert War: The North Africa Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead

Japan At War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook

War in Italy 1943-1945: A Brutal Story by Richard Lamb

Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton

Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944-1945 by William I. Hitchcock

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

Vietnam:

Vietnam and America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War, edited by Marvin E. Gettleman et al

We Were Soldiers Once and Young: La Drang: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

Battle For Hue, Tet, 1968 by Keith William Nolan

Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett - Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles by William Prochnau

New Zealand:

Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies 1939-45 by Gerald Hensley

A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders Remember the Italian Campaign, edited by Megan Hutching

Kippenberger: An Inspired New Zealand Commander by Glyn Harper

Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Myth, by Matthew Wright

Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, by Basharat Peer
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century by Tom Bower
Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship Italia - A Harrowing True Tale of Arctic Endurance and Survival by Wilbur Cross
Luck & The Irish: [...]

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Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
The Making of the British Army from the English Civil War to the War on Terror by Allan Mallinson
The Soldier: A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood by Darren Moore
The Clinton [...]

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Porsche 911 Enduring Values
by Jutta Deiss et al
St Paul: Motorbooks, 2004
ISBN: 0760321205
160pp, colour & B/W plates

Porsche 911 Perfection by Design
by Randy Leffingwell
St Paul: Motorbooks, 2005
ISBN: 0760320926
352pp, colour & B/W plates

Porsche 911 The Definitive History 1987-1997
by Brian Long
Dorchester: Veloce, 2004
208pp, colour & B/W plates

Porsche Chronicle
Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, 1995
ISBN: 0785312285. 216pp, [...]

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Contemporary New Zealand Painters
Volume One A-M
by Jim & Mary Barr
Photographs by Marti Friedlander

Martinborough: Alister Taylor, 1980
ISBN: 0908578148
176pp, colour plates, B/W photographs, in slipcase.
Volume Two of this set was never published

$250.00

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Jason Books will be closed
on Monday February 1 for Auckland Anniversary Day
and on Saturday February 6 for Waitangi Day

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Engravings on Wood
by Rona Dyer

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1948
First Edition
18 B/W plates, stapled
$200.00

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Jason Books is closed on the Statutory Holidays only.
i.e. December 25 & 26, January 1 & 2.
Otherwise, our usual business hours apply:
Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm

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Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Danger’s Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951 edited by Helen Topliss
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
The Secret Lives of Words by Paul West
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti: Capital of Whakatohea by [...]

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Buller’s Birds of New Zealand

A New Edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller’s A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Reproducing in Six-Colour Offset the 48 Stone-Plate Lithographs By J. G. Keulemans from the 2nd Edition 1888

The iconic reprint of this New Zealand classic edited & updated by E. G. Turbott, published by Whitcombe & [...]

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Military History: Just Arrived

New stock of Military History books including:
General:
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Chechnya: A Small Victorious [...]

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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, by Basharat Peer
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the [...]

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Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
The [...]

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