Zero Hour - The Anzacs on the Western Front by Leon Davidson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their places in a line of trenches dug throughout Belgium and France from the ...Show more
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
grunt n. informal a low-ranking soldier At a converted movie studio amputee actors help prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at the base for anti-terror operations in East Africa diarrhoea threatens national security. Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other sid ...Show more
The March of Folly - From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece "The Guns of August, " grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezu ...Show more
Agent Jack - The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Espionage | Reading Level: very good
For fans of Transcription by Kate Atkinson and books by Ben Macintyre, this is the astonishing full story of the MI5 agent at the heart of Operation Fifth Column, the covert wartime operation to flush out Nazi sympathisers on British soil. June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and H ...Show more
The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
For King and Other Countries - The New Zealanders who fought in other services in the First World War by Glyn Harper
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
The Storm of War - A new history of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
$12.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good-very good
On 2 August 1944, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. 'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler', Churchill jibed. 'Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults ...Show more
Home - Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews, Home reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 194 ...Show more
The Civil War - A Narrative - Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
$20.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: The Civil War 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
The first volume of Shelby Footes tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for comments). In this dramatic second volume the scope and power, the lively portrayal of exciting personalities, and the memorable re-creation of events ...Show more
Bloody Gallipoli: The New Zealanders' Story by Richard Stowers
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. This is a book that clearly and conscisely sets out New Zealand's involvement from the first declaration of war until the final exacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Detailed within are the battles that have long haunted New Zealand military history such as the Daisy Patch, Hill 60 and, o ...Show more